The artist knew how bamboo grows and sprouts leaves and understood the difference between the fine long feathers of a pigeon and the pointed plumage of the quail. "Surpassing realism, entering expressionism: She Cheng explains that when the Northern Sung dynasty took over the artistic heritage of the Five Dynasties, realism was still of primary importance for painting technique.
藝術家知道竹是怎樣抽枝生葉的，也瞭解到鴿子細長羽毛和鶉的尖銳羽毛是不一樣的。」越過寫實，進入寫生