This volume "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" depicts Suzhou in the middle of Ming Dynasty, reflecting the prosperity of Suzhou City at that time. The deep house compound, tall city walls and rows of shops in the painting all highlight this point.

From the details of the paintings, "gold lacquerware", "finely mounted poems and paintings", "tin ware making", "dyehouse" and "bronze ware making" are all characteristics of Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty, while "brothel", "bookstore", "southern goods", "bright flowers" and "female workers' bronze needles" can make people feel the charm of Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty.

colour

This volume "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" is a heavy-colored genre painting, and its color application is very flexible and just right, which reflects the author's originality everywhere.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a colorful genre painting created by Chou Ying, a painter in Ming Dynasty, and is now collected in Liaoning Provincial Museum. There are many extant works, The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, which are handed down by Chou Ying. Besides this volume, there are other books in Qingzhou Museum, the National Palace Museum in Taipei and many books in private hands.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, which is collected by Liaoning Provincial Museum, has been widely circulated, and it is generally considered as an original work by Chou Ying in academic circles.

Extended data:

Creation background

Time background

In the middle of Ming Dynasty (about 1435~ 1572), the overall social economy became increasingly prosperous, which, to a certain extent, made the concept of commodity production and exchange of business gradually penetrate into the field of cultural and artistic circles at that time, and actively promoted the linear prosperity of culture and art.

Many of the paintings in this stage are based on the traditional art culture of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and some European missionaries and outstanding businessmen brought the painting spirit attached to the Renaissance stage, which made the overall development of art in this period more vital and energetic.

Subject source

Most of Paintings of Ming Dynasty's content is based on the buying and selling scenes of commodities. Every place has a painting place for copying ancient paintings. It is precisely because of this that most painters choose painting themes to cater to the hobbies of officials and ordinary people, and then paint.

At that time, painters did not accept all the works of the original author in the process of copying, and they would not remain unchanged. Painters will keep pace with the times and add and delete pictures appropriately according to the economic situation and self-feeling at that time, and at the same time, they will portray the living conditions, economic conditions and entertainment contents of the people while completely interpreting the painting contents.