"Thick eyebrows and raised nose, dark face and short beard": nostrils pointing upward, which may be a bit exaggerated and fabricated. Although the appearance of Pang Tong in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" cannot be complimented, with Mr. Feng Chu's talent, no matter how ugly he is, he is still a hero of his generation. "Crouching dragon and phoenix chick, one can bring peace to the world!" Look at his comments:

Sima Hui: The crown of Nanzhou scholars. Being virtuous, fair and sincere is a sign of true virtue.

Chen Shou: Pang Tongya was good at attracting people, studied Confucian classics and thought out plans, and was known as Gaojun in Shijing and Chu. The ministers of Wei were defeated, and the uncle Zhong of Xun Yu was unified.

Lu Su: Pang Shiyuan is not a hundred-mile talent. He should show his talent only when he is assigned the task of handling the affairs of the country and not taking charge.

Yang Opera's "Praise to the Assistant Ministers of the Han Dynasty": The military commander is beautiful, elegant and elegant, deadly to the wise master, loyal and affectionate, but this Yi Zong died to repay his virtue. Zhuge Liang: Pang Tong and Liao Li are outstanding talents of Chu and should be praised as those who made the world prosperous.

Pang Tong commented on himself: I seem to have learned a lot about Wang Ba's remaining strategies and the key points of relying on them.

The official history "Three Kingdoms" has the same narration method as other historical books. The records of the appearance of ancient people are only for those ancient people who are very good-looking, and there are only a few words, and talent, virtue and beauty are the main criteria. , and there is no record of those with average appearance. There is no record of Pang Tong's appearance in "Three Kingdoms", so we can conclude that Pang Tong's appearance is average. Although he is not handsome, he is not ugly either.

Why does "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" portray Pang Tong as ugly? In fact, in the chapter about the Battle of Chibi, Pang Tong wrote a link about how when Jiang Qian saw Pang Tong, he described his appearance as "extraordinary", which means that Pang Tong was a great talent, with extraordinary intelligence, so his temperament was extraordinary, and then Cao Cao When I saw Pang Tong, I also admired him very much and didn't mean to be ugly at all. But later when he met Sun Quan and Liu Bei, he described his appearance as ugly, which made them unhappy and despised him. According to this analysis, the theory of Pang Tong's ugly appearance in the novel is not only inconsistent but also disconnected, indicating that this is clearly a deliberate fabrication by Luo Guanzhong. The reasons should be: 1. To highlight the beautiful image of Zhuge Liang, the contrast between dragon and phoenix is ??vivid and vivid. Second, it reflects people's vicious vulgar sentiments. Liu Bei and Sun Quan, the so-called masters who love talents and select talents, are really for ambition and hegemony, not just for the virtuous.