Moon Hee Hui Han Tu has long quoted the theme of Moon Hee Hui Han. According to the history of painting, it can be traced back to Yan in the Tang Dynasty (the seventh century) at the earliest, but the traces of painting have been lost. The paintings of Yue Xi Gui Han collected by Zhiruoyuan are earlier, which can definitely be placed in Song Dynasty, including the book Yue Xi Gui Han by Song people (Old Biography of Li Tang) and two pieces of Yue Xi Gui Han by Chen Juzhong. The Eighteen Albums * * * gives a detailed account of the development of the whole historical facts, and adds the full text of "Eighteen Beats by Hu Jia" to it. The vertical axis only captures a single picture and emphasizes the climax of the story.
Written by Kao Lizhou is about equivalent to the "farewell" scene in the thirteenth volume of Moon Hee Hui Han. The content depicts Zuo receiving Ambassador China who came to greet Wenxi and saying goodbye to Wenxi. People and horses in the painting are listed in three sections, which constitutes an obvious spatial effect. The background is supplemented by soil slopes, yellow sand and dead trees, which adds to the vast and cold regional characteristics of the northern country. The images of horses in the paintings are all cracked in the nose and ears, which is basically consistent with the characteristics of horses in the Song Dynasty described in Volume IV of Guang Chuan Hua Postscript of Dong Ti (12nd century). However, because the author used a lot of symmetrical and tough line drawings to express the strong muscle hardness of horses, Li's famous line drawing "Wumatu" seems to have a little more sense of atrophy in the cold climate outside the Great Wall compared with the last leaf of the Northern Song Dynasty. This brushwork also appeared in several paintings of Fan Ma in the Forbidden City and was handed down as Hu (10 century). However, the horse in this picture is complex and tends to be described in a "conceptual" way.
Evonne, the imperial concubine of the Song Dynasty, returned to the south because of the repeated missions of envoys from the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, painters in the Southern Song Dynasty like to paint the theme of "Yue Xi belongs to the Han Dynasty", which actually contains the profound meaning of "relying on the past rather than the present". In this photo, Wen Xi, Zuo and Han Ambassadors are all sitting on a woven carpet. The left leg is facing south, occupying the first position in the picture, while Ambassador China is kneeling facing north, ranking second. Compared with the earlier version of Wen Xi Gui Han Tu, the layout is quite different, which seems to imply that the relationship between Hu and Han at that time has shown a qualitative change of "master-slave heterotopia". In the mid-Southern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty agreed to make peace for many times, and the Lin 'an court was wronged and barely maintained a partial situation. The above historical background may be helpful to determine the drawing age of this vertical axis, and may be suitable for the Ning and reign periods (1early 3rd century).
There is no author's signature or seal on Wenxi Belonging to Han in the Palace Museum. Old Biography was painted by Chen Juzhong, a court painter in Ningzong period of Southern Song Dynasty. This theme was quite popular in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty. The reason is that when the Northern Song Dynasty perished, Hui Zong, Qin Zong and a group of empresses were all held hostage by the Jin people. The situation is quite similar to Wenxi. Describing the story of Moon Hee's return to the Han Dynasty accords with the people's longing for the return of the emperor in the Southern Song Dynasty.