The Big Family Series is the most important art work by Zhang Xiaogang and the Man is a painting of this series. The man in the painting wears Zhong Shan suits. He is staring forward seriously as if he is thinking about the tragic past of his country, his family, and himself. The painting is dominated by black and white, copying the effect of old photos. Only on the right cheek of the man there is a small piece of light pink, which has broken the limit of a black-white picture. The pink also grants the painting with a sense of super-natural. It would make its audiences puzzled: whether the man in the painting is a real person, or he exists only in one¡¯s memory, dreams, and unconscious? Zhang Xiaogang¡¯s brush strokes are delicate, which makes the painting mysterious and charming. Zhang Xiaogang reveals the veils on the face of history step by step in the Big Family Series, so that the historical events would be recognized by the new generation.