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Chinese Horse Painting Enters Guinness Book
"Ten Thousand Horses", a traditional Chinese painting by Gong Chunhu from the Tianjin municipality, was honored recently by the Guinness Book of World Records as the painting with the most horses.
"The painting is a perfect combination of realism and romanticism", said Wang Yizhuo, an official in charge of the Shanghai Office of the Guinness Book of World Records who went on a special trip to award Gong with a Guinness certificate.
The 25-meter-long painting scroll took Gong more than four years to complete. The postures of the 9,999 horses are imposingly diverse: galloping, lying, feeding and flirting, all true to life.
Born in 1954, the Year of Horse, according to China's 12 years of zodiac circle, Gong grew up with horses raised by his grandfather. He loved painting horses since childhood, and served as an apprentice to some famous traditional Chinese painters.
After decades of pursuits, Gong knew almost every details about horse movement. Before starting the "Ten Thousand Horses", he had painted "Hundred Horses" and "Thousand Horses" over the past decades.
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