What is the name of the picture of a horse painted by Lang Shining?

The Eight Steeds.

Horses are common subjects in Lang Shining's works, and it is important that he appreciated the symbolism of the horse in traditional Chinese culture. Since ancient times, the horse has been a symbol of social virtue, and the feudal emperors ordered court painters to use the horse as a subject to symbolize their respect for the pillars of society and their eagerness to seek out the best in the world.

Lang's "eight steeds" into the painting is not accidental, the origin. According to legend, the ancient Zhou Mu Wang has eight good steeds, one said to be green ears, steal Li, Baiyi, over the wheel, Shanzi, Dui Huang, Hua monkey and red steed (see "Mu Tianzi biography"), another said to be the Jedi, turn the feather, run the night, over the shadow, over the Hui, over the light, Tengmu, hold the wings (see "Gleanings"), Zhou Mu Wang once drove these eight steeds to travel to the West.

Expanded Information

In the eighth year of the Qianlong reign, Lang Shining was ordered to paint ten large paintings of Horse Pictures. These ten paintings were portraits of ten steeds, painted according to real steeds, and were so large that they were almost equal to real horses. The Ten Horse Pictures were included in the Shiqu Baoji (石渠寶笈初编), which is an exhaustive record. It is known that the Ten Steeds, which was collected in the imperial library, was "painted on plain silk, with coloring," and was of the highest quality.

The book not only records the name of the steed in each painting, the name of the offerer, and note the size of the horse, and ministers of its praise. Shiqu Baoji also recorded: "each axis signed the word under the note language, and the Manchurian word, Mongolian word each line, the same translation. Shaft height seven feet four inches, wide eight feet four inches odd."

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