Picture Axis of Giuseppe Castiglione and Other Ten Thousand Tree Garden Banquets

[Giuseppe Castiglione and other artists’ pictures of banquets in Wanshuyuan]

The axis of Banquets in Wanshuyuan, painted by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Giuseppe Castiglione and other artists, is made of silk with color, 221.2 cm in length and 419.6 cm in width
In the winter of the 18th year of Qianlong’s reign (1753), the Durbert tribe, one of the four tribes of Erut Mongolia, was led by its leaders Cheling, Cheling Ubashi, and Cheling Mengke (known as Sancheling in history), Santaiji, with over 3000 households and over 10000 people who left the Erkis River, where they had been nomadic for many years, and fled to Uriyasutai, a place under the jurisdiction of the Qing government. The Emperor Qianlong knew that their affiliation had a positive effect on the national unity of the Qing Dynasty, and also had an inestimable impact on the stability of the Mongols Junggar tribe, which was plagued by frequent wars. Therefore, they were conferred the titles of princes, princes, Baylor, etc., and awarded a large number of gold, silver, jade, porcelain, silk and other items. In May of the 19th year of Qianlong’s reign (1754), a grand banquet was held in the Wanshuyuan Garden of the Summer Resort, They were given a warm reception. The court painter Giuseppe Castiglione and others gave a documentary description of the banquet, and his “Banquet in the Ten Thousand Trees Garden” truly reproduced the grand gathering of national unity