Swift Horses

In addition to horse painting, Qi is also a master of mural and oil painting.

In 1996, he started to compose a classic mural painting Daoism: Pilgrimage of the Celestials, which is 4.26 meters high and 14.5 meters long.

The painting includes 286 deities and is viewed as a world-class work of art, Chen said.

In order to complete this massive project, Qi researched in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and worked with scholars of literature and history from Shanxi province.

This piece of work contributed to an even larger-scale project Yongle Temple Mural Painting, which is now collected by a Japanese collector.