What is the origin of Xu Beihong's name?

Xu Beihong was originally named Xu Shoukang. At the age of 6, he studied four books and five classics with his father, and then he studied painting. Because there is no money for him to study at home, Xu Beihong has never been to a formal school, so he is often left out in the cold. This made him feel bleak in the future, the world was cold, and he couldn't help feeling sad from it, just like Hongyan moaning, so he changed his name to "Xu Beihong".

Xu Beihong (1July, 89519—1September 26th, 953), Han nationality, formerly known as Xu, was born in Qiting Town, Yixing County, Jiangsu Province, and was a modern painter and art educator in China.

19 17, Xu Beihong was hired as the tutor of Peking University Painting Research Association, and the highest institution of higher learning has successively made Xu Beihong a master painter and Shen and Li Zhimin, masters of Peking University calligraphy history. I studied in France to study western painting, and I have been engaged in art education for a long time after returning to China. He has taught in the Art Department of National Central University, the Art College of Beiping University and Beiping Art College.

After 1949, he served as the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is good at figures, animals, flowers and birds, and advocates realism, especially Ren Bonian in tradition, emphasizing the integration of Chinese painting reform and western painting techniques, advocating light and modeling in painting, emphasizing the accurate grasp of the anatomical structure and bones of the object, and emphasizing the ideological connotation of his works, which had a great influence on China painting circles at that time. He, Zhang Shuqi and Liu Zigu are also called "the three outstanding artists in Jinling". His traditional Chinese paintings are full of color and ink, especially running horses.