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Shengji tu 聖蹟圖, as defined by the American art historian Julia K. Murray who has 25 years of expertise of Shengji tu studies, are “pictures of the sage’s traces (Murray, 1996, p. 269) which “were created to portray a comprehensive series of events and anecdotes associated with Confucius’s life, arranged in roughly chronological order (Murray, 1997, P. 73), and sometimes it is referred as “pictorial biography/hagiography of Confucius” (Murray, 1996, p. 269). And Shengji tu is categorized into “the genre of multiple-episode pictorial biography” (Murray, 1996, p. 271) in the western academic field of Chinese art history.

[1] Julia K. Murray, The Temple of Confucius and Pictorial Biographies of the Sage, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 55. No. 2 (May, 1996). pp. 269-300. [2] Julia K. Murray,Illustrations of the Life of Confucius: Their Evolution, Functions, and Significance in Late Ming China, Artibus Asiae, Vol. 57. No.1/2 (1997), pp. 73-134.