Xu Beihong's "Five Hundred Men in Tian Heng"-Appreciation of the work "Five Hundred Men in Tian Heng" is partly due to the "Noble Festival" of Tian Heng and others, and the painter deliberately chose the dramatic scene of Tian Heng's farewell to 500 strong men. This huge historical painting is filled with a tragic spirit, which is amazing. In the painting, Tian Heng, wearing a scarlet robe, was placed on the right to show his farewell. He held his head high, looked serious, and stared at the sky, as if he were asking about the vast world. Two-thirds of the characters across the screen convey the resultant force of the masses in a dense formation.

In the lower right corner of the crowd, an old woman and a young woman are holding a little girl and looking up at Tian Heng with sad eyes. Its sculptural size and pyramid-like structure undoubtedly remind us of the paintings of Pu Sang and David. Xu's picture is also dominated by favorite red, yellow and blue, which highlights Tian Heng's answer with young men. The back is lined with a clear and plain sky, giving people a clear and solemn feeling. "Noble simplicity and quiet greatness" is an artistic style advocated by German classical pathologist winkelmann.

When you appreciate Xu Beihong's paintings, you will find that the stretched arms, tiptoes, legs across in front of you, wooden sticks and dark swords of the characters in the paintings constitute a picture rhythm, which is quiet in movement and full of heroic spirit. In China, where modernist art prevailed at that time, Xu Beihong insisted on the realistic position of paying attention to life and society, and expressed his call for social justice through historical paintings, just like lightning in the dark illuminating the sky and revealing the dawn.