By the river during Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is 528 cm long and 24.8 cm high. It is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing. This painting depicts the bustling scenes and beautiful natural scenery along the Bianliang and Bianhe rivers, the capital cities of the Northern Song Dynasty, during the Qingming period. In the form of a long scroll, the work uses the composition method of scattered perspective to bring the complicated scenery into a unified and changeable picture. There are more than 550 people, more than 60 livestock, more than 20 wooden boats, more than 30 houses and more than 20 sedan chairs. Their clothes are different and lifelike, and various activities are interspersed among them, paying attention to the plot, dense composition, changing rhythm and rhythm, and fluent pen and ink. Song Huizong liked this painting very much, and wrote "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" by himself.

author

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival (in part) was written by Zhang Zeduan, a painter of Song Huizong Hanlin Painting Academy, and it was also said that Zhang Zeduan was not the only author. Dong Qichang's "Rong Tai Collection" said: "It is the Southern Song Dynasty that remembers the prosperity of the old capital, but it carries the prosperous scene of Qingming, which has been passed down from generation to generation. Zhang Zeduan is the most different." "At the beginning of Shaoxing, when I was sitting idle, I would talk about the scenery of the capital and feel that there were still people crying. So at that time, the northwest was old, and people who told propaganda stories were highly valued. " Some people even put forward the view that it was written by people who missed the past prosperity in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival was painted in ten years and was first collected by the Northern Song Dynasty court. After the disaster, Jingkangzhi flowed into the people, and after many twists and turns, it was obtained by Jia Sidao in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, it entered the palace again, was transferred to the people in mindfulness, and then fell into the hands of prime ministers Yan Song and Yan Shifan. Yan Song fell, the map was confiscated, and it was merged into the court for the third time. The imperial collection in Ming Dynasty was stolen by eunuch Feng Bao, who wrote an inscription on the painting. Later, the original disappeared. Two hundred years later, it was collected by Bi Yuan, Governor of Huguang in Qing Dynasty. After Bi Yuan's death, The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival entered the palace for the fourth time and was hidden in the Forbidden City. 19 1 1 year was brought to the northeast by Puyi, and 1945 entered the Northeast Museum (Liaoning Provincial Museum).

copy

Because of its great fame, this painting was copied by many painters in past dynasties. Chou Ying, a painter in Ming Dynasty, copied The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, and Suzhou film The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival was set in Suzhou. The most famous is the Qingming Riverside Map in the Qing Dynasty. The first year of Qianlong (1736) was copied by five painters of the Qing Palace Painting Academy: Chen Mei, Sun Hu, Jin Kun and Dai Hong. It was not until the winter of 1950 that Yang of Shenyang Museum and other talents identified the original works among the counterfeit goods in the warehouse of Northeast Museum. The Palace Museum in Taiwan has a "Qingyuan Edition".

debate

"The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" has been circulated so far that it can't help being revised. A controversial part includes donkeys, children and old people. It was not until 1973 that the donkey was removed from the painting by the Palace Museum.