Legend or Game?Though the art history is still the art history, paintings are also the same paintings, the price of masterworks refreshes continuously. Without brilliant records, the great masterpieces would not show in front of the public. Maybe for public, what they see is just competitions among several millionaires. However, as a Chinese, we deeply want the artworks of china to become more and more expensive. On April 7, the “Put Down Your Wipe” fetched HK＄71,280,000 at Sotheby's Hong Kong auction, beat the Chinese artist's own record and created a new record of Chinese oil painting.Why is the “Put Down Your Wipe” worth so much?Experts expressed that the first reason is its good topic. “Put Down Your Whip” is a one-act play adapted by famous dramatist Tian Han from the novel of German writer Goethe. In October, 1939, Xu Beihong deeply moved by the play and created the painting with the subject of anti-Japanese in almost ten days. This piece truly shows the patriotism of the great artist. Secondly, among the most expensive oil paintings in China, the top three are all Xu Beihong’s. In 2006, “Yu Gong Moves the Mountain” sold at RMB 33,000,000 at Hanhai’s spring auction, followed by the “Slave and Lion” toped RMB 57,110,000. The three were all broke the records of Chinese oil painting in the world respectively.At last, the popularity of Xu Beihong also adds the price of his works. As we know, the horses and his name have already become the art sign of China, and his is also a vital pioneer and founder of Chinese modern art that integrates styles of Chinese traditional Western paintings. Now, most Chinese art schools are still using the teaching system he created before.