In the eyes of art historian James Cahill, a painting from Hui Tsung's painting academy of plum, bamboo and animals kept in the National Palace Museum reveals how, "Under the feeling for realism there is concealed concentrated and patient observation.
保存在台北故宮，出自徽宗畫院的「梅竹聚禽」，在美籍中國繪畫史學者高居翰看來，是「真實感底下深藏著精密而耐心的觀察。