The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down by China. The genre paintings of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a width of 24.8 cm and a length of 528.7 cm, are the only representative works of Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, and belong to the first-class national treasure. This painting vividly records the city appearance of Tokyo (also known as Bianjing, now Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty in China in the12nd century, and the living conditions of people from all walks of life at that time. It is a witness to the prosperity of Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and also a portrayal of the economic situation of the Northern Song Dynasty.
In the form of a long scroll, the work uses the composition method of scattered perspective to bring complicated scenery into a unified and changeable picture scroll. This painting is mainly divided into two parts, one is the countryside and the other is the market. There are 8 14 people, 83 livestock, 29 ships, more than 30 buildings, 13 cars, 14 cars, 17 bridges, and about 180 trees in the painting. They wear different clothes and look lifelike, with various activities interspersed.
The whole picture of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival can be divided into three sections. When the picture unfolds, the first thing you see is the scenery on the outskirts of Bianjing. The middle section mainly depicts the busy scenes on both sides of Shangtu Bridge and Bianhe River. The second half depicts the street view of Bianjing City. The size of the word is less than 3 cm, as small as a bean. If you look at them carefully, they are both physically and mentally interesting.
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The long genre painting The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, painted by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty, is a world-renowned artistic treasure. It is called the "national treasure" of the painting garden, just like the "Five Cattle Map" created by Han Yun in the Tang Dynasty. The earliest collector was Song Huizong (Evonne). The original Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival written in fine gold and Shuanglong Small Seal (the leisure seal of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, used to appreciate or collect artworks) can be proved to be originally collected in the palace after painting.
11After the fall of Bianjing in 26 years, all the precious cultural relics in the palace, including this famous painting, were taken away by the Jin people, who didn't understand the value of this painting at first. Another 59 years passed, that is, in the 26th year of Dading (1 186). Zhang Zhu wrote the first postscript to The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, and quoted Xiang's comments to prove that Zhang Zeduan, a poet in the Song Dynasty, used the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival and the West Lake as the standard, so he named the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival.
According to the textual research on the inscription of Li Dongyang, a Ming Dynasty man, there should be a landscape map of the outer suburbs in front of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, which is inscribed with Song Huizong's fine gold lettering and Ssangyong's small seal for his collection, but now these have disappeared from the painting. There are two reasons. One possibility is that this picture has been circulated for too long, and the beginning part was broken after being enjoyed by countless people, so it was cut off when later generations mounted it; One possibility is that Song Huizong's inscription and Ssangyong Xiao Zhuan are valuable, and later generations deliberately cut them off and sold them as another painting.
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