馬的文化(The Horse in Chinese Culture)：楊微《雙駿圖》(Yang Wei's Shuangjun Tu (The Two Steeds))

放大圖片

金 Jin dynasty（公元1115 – 1234年）

絹本設色 Ink and colour on silk

遼寧省博物館藏 Liaoning Provincial Museum

　圖卷作者楊微，運用渾厚豪放的藝術手法，塑造了女真人牧馬的形象。畫中牧人策馬馳騁，手中繩索已成功套在健壯的前駒上，但壯馬欲掙脫羈絆，急奔逃避。作者運筆剛勁有力，線條流暢，成功捕捉人馬角力，驚險萬分的場面。人物表情、馬的形態刻畫極其細膩，生動傳神，是北方草原遊牧民族生活的真實反映。

　A horseherd gallops on his mount, the ring of the lasso in his hands already around the neck of the horse in front. But the wilful steed refuses to be tamed so easily and tries to shake off the rope and run away. With broad, robust but effortlessly flowing brushstrokes, the artist Yang Wei renders the horseherd's facial expression and the bearing of the horses in vivid detail and captures the perilous excitement of the battle of strength and wits between man and horse. This was a typical scene in the everyday lives of the Jurchen people, and Yang Wei's painting confirms that these nomads of the north were both expert horse tamers and adept in warfare.