张之洞长得不帅,个子也很矮,初任湖广总督时,很多人根本不把他放在眼里。当地的一名画家甚至拿他开涮,画了一幅“三矮奇闻”的水彩画,画上的三个矮子分别是张之洞和他的两位同事。此画一经展出,立即引起社会广泛关注,成为大家茶余饭后的谈资。如此诋毁朝 Zhang Zhidong looks not handsome, tall and short, the first governor when Huguang, a lot of people do not look down on him. An artist at the local area even took him and drew a watercolors painting “Three Short Stories”. The three dwarfs were Zhang Zhidong and two of his colleagues. This painting, once displayed, immediately aroused widespread concern in the society and became a talk after all. So slander toward