One has a round face and a kind heart, the other has a long forehead, a nose like garlic, a prominent chin, and even some faces are covered with pockmarks. This latter portrait is also a childhood memory of many people, because it was printed in the textbooks of People's Education Publishing House at that time, but it was later changed to a round face. For that "shoe-pulling" face, it is unacceptable for "bright powder"
In fact, this conjecture does not hold water. Ming officials once saw Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait with their own eyes in the storage place of the emperor's portrait. The Ming dynasty recognized and adopted the portrait of a round face, and another Ming official saw Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait in Guizhou, Yunnan. All these show that the portrait of round face is officially recognized, but the ugly face has been circulated among the people in the middle of Ming Dynasty.
However, it doesn't mean that Zhu Yuanzhang really has that round face. In the records of the court painter's portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang by Ming officials, those realists with realistic brushwork are often difficult to appreciate, and a little artistic treatment, such as beauty filter, can better win the favor of the emperor.
So what does Zhu Yuanzhang look like? Let's look at his son Judy. The standard portraits of father and son are put together, but they look really similar except for their beards.
After the Jingnan Rebellion, the standard portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang in the palace was destroyed. In order to prove the rationality of overthrowing Emperor Jianwen and seizing the throne, Judy asked the painter to redraw the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang. Therefore, it should be in Judy's time that Judy proved to the world that he could be an emperor.