Using several differences in architectural form, painters painted 14,000 colored drawings that varied in size at the Liangfang of the Long Corridor and other places around the Long Corridor. Each painting is rich in content and diverse in form. In general, these colored drawings can be divided into four types: painting of human figures, landscape painting, flower and bird painting and painting of traditional Chinese buildings. Among them, the most attractive paintings are the over 200 depictions of human figures.

Flower and Bird Colored Drawing

Architecture Colored Drawing

The content of the Character colored drawing include classical literature, historical figure legends, myth and legend, drama story and so on. But there are no words on the pictures to illustrate meaning. Therefore, people only can speculate the content of the stories from peoples’ looks and expressions, dress and groom, movement, the design of scene, etc..

Brotherhood Forged in the Peach Garden

This is a story from the classical novel Three Kingdoms: One day, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei came to a peach garden. They swore brotherhood to heaven and earth before lit candles and joss sticks. Of the three people in the picture, the middle one, Liu Bei, looks experienced and prudent with a white face and long ears. The one on his right, Guan Yu, has a long beard and heavy ears. The one on the left, Zhang Fei, has a black face and a curly beard.