Painting Story:
The antique painting was created in 16th Century in China (by unknown painters) to demonstrate the campaign which Ming Dynasty army fought against pirates in naval battle. The whole painting has 3.5 metre's in length, this art print product replicate the middle section of it (river battle).
In this historical period, east and south coast of China got pillaged by pirates for many times. Those priate was developed from Chinese merchants who group with Japanese ronins to carried out this piracy for againsting Closed-door policy (banned oversea trade in civilian level) of Ming Dynasty, while merchants gaining massive bennifits from smuggling but have to face the threads from the Kingdom's law enforcement and corruption at the same time.
The pirates was armed and used tactics of the Japanese style that brings big troubles to the Kingdom's coastal frontier defense. After winning several battles, pirates were brave enough to penetrate into more continental places to challenge the local defence. But they had underestimated the true power of the Ming Kingdom, until a famous general called Qi JiGuang was sent to surpress these piratcy.