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This book combines art history and cultural history, and discusses the martial culture of the Qing Dynasty, focusing on the paintings of war honors that have long been on the edge of the history of Chinese painting and official history. The book outlines the development trajectory of the Ming and Qing battles images from personal deeds to imperial martial arts - from the popular personal deeds pictures in the Ming Dynasty, the "Taizu Record Picture" produced during Huang Taiji, the martial arts culture of the Kangxi Dynasty, to the construction of imperial battle pictures in the Qianlong Dynasty; it demonstrates that the visual culture prevalent among officials in the Ming Dynasty was transformed and incorporated under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and that the Qianlong Dynasty finally established a "civil and military" cultural hegemony.