Yongle's painting is more slender than Xuande's, and the tiny black spots are denser than Xuande's, and the small pen is rendered and filled with color, so it needs to be dipped in the painting again and again, leaving many brush strokes with different shades. Later generations used a large number of paintings with different styles. Xuande's blue-and-white ornamentation is bold and vivid, with smooth brushwork, thick and thin, and a wide range of contents and themes. Yongxuan Blue-and-White has changed the multi-level dense structure and tends to leave more blanks. The palindrome replaced the two-side connection of Hongwu by the whole circle; Yongle chrysanthemum pattern has a patterned style, while Xuande flat chrysanthemum pattern is more realistic. Yongle blue and white is more dizzy than Xuande. In addition, due to the limitation of raw materials, calligraphy also has different characteristics of the times. For example, at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, some porcelains made of imported green materials, although they were colorful for a while, were very unstable in color and were not suitable for painting figures. Therefore, there is a saying that "there were few people in the Yuan Dynasty, and there was no one in Yongle, and there were more women and fewer men in Xuande".
shape: Yongle porcelain has always been famous for its graceful and dignified shape, graceful and elegant, and moderate thickness, and has got rid of the influence of the heavy style of Yuan Dynasty. At this time, there were various kinds of porcelain, and many new types of porcelain were created. The shapes of blue-and-white porcelain include Zunzun, Yu Louzun, Plum Bottle, Jade Pot Spring Bottle, Celestial Bottle, Flat Belly Ribbon Bottle, Holding Pot, Pain Pot, Flat Pot, Bamboo Pot, Garlic Ribbon Flat Pot, Flat Pot, Double Pot, Axle Pot, Eight-way Candlestick, Flower Pouring, Water Pouring, Folding Pot, and Flower Pouring. Some of them were obviously born under the influence of foreign cultures, such as Wudang Zun, Yu Louzun, Flower Watering, Sangao Pot, Folding Basin, Big Plate, etc., and some of them were written in Persian, Arabic or Tibetan. In addition, the newly-created vessels in this period include moon-holding bottles, celestial bottles, and octagonal candlesticks.
There is a chord pattern around the joint between the inner wall and the bottom surface of bowls and plates. The core of the organ is concave and convex, and it is in the shape of collapse. The bottom of the market is a fine sand bottom, which feels smooth and moist when touched by hand, and some can see small iron spots. Most of the bottom feet of small utensils are glazed, and some bottom glazes are wavy. The mouth edge of the skimmer in the circular device is extremely thin, sharp but not round, and it feels sharp. Although the cutter is made in sections, the joint marks are not obvious because of the fine technology. Common loops include deep outward-skimming, inner wall outward-skimming, straight inward and outward-retracting, flush, etc.
Fetal glaze: In Yongle, the tire soil was refined, so the tire quality was fine and the tire color was white, which was thinner and lighter than the later Xuande porcelain tires. The glaze is mainly characterized by being thick, delicate, smooth and flat, and there is no orange peel pattern popular in Xuande later. The glaze is bluish white, which is caused by the traditional firing method in Ming Dynasty. The glaze juice is light blue when it is thick, and some are white. The surface glaze of the cutter is uniform, and there are fine bubbles of different sizes under the glaze.
Blue material: Blue and white are painted with imported Su Li Ma Qing material, showing bright indigo, slightly purple with different degrees, deep and gorgeous colors, and some are very elegant violet. This blue and white material contains low manganese and high iron. Because of the low manganese content, the purple and red tones in cyan are reduced, and the bright color like sapphire can be burned under proper heat. However, when the iron content is high, iron rust spots often appear, which are scattered in a star-shaped drop, and the dense parts are condensed into black cyan and navy blue, and even concave into the fetal bone, which will feel uneven when touched by hand. This is a major feature of Yongle Blue and White. The overall color has shades, the outline lines are deeper, and the filling pigments are lighter. The pigment is fine and uniform, and the edge of the line is slightly dizzy.
patterns and decorations: the common patterns are sea water patterns, grass-rolling patterns, bamboo-stone plantain patterns, loquat patterns with broken branches, lotus flowers and dark dragon patterns, etc., and there are four seasons flowers and fruits with broken branches, such as lotus, peony, rose, chrysanthemum, camellia, ganoderma lucidum and rose, etc., but there are no patterns with the theme of flat chrysanthemum prevailing in Hongwu Dynasty. Most of the fruits with broken branches symbolize longevity and good luck, such as Xiantao, pomegranate, loquat, grape and cherry. Animal patterns are mainly dragon and phoenix patterns, as well as a small number of unicorn and sea water animal patterns. The dragon body is fat, and the dragon claws have three claws, four claws and five claws. Yongle blue-and-white painting began to show double cross-coloring, that is, the outline was outlined with thin lines, the color was filled with small pens, and the shades were shown with brush strokes, which changed the style of one-stroke strokes in Yuan Dynasty and Hongwu period. That is, thin lines are used to outline the outline, small pens are used to fill in the color, and strokes are used to show the shades, which changed the style of one stroke and one stroke in Yuan Dynasty and Hongwu period.