When portrait artists made portraits of living people, they called their efforts "writing the truth" or "conveying the spirit," and when they made portraits of the dead, they called their works "chasing shadows" or "lifting the cloth."
民間肖像畫中，為生人立像叫「寫真」或「傳神」，而為死人畫像叫「追影」或「揭帛」。