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Reflections on The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival

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The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival 1 Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival focuses on the land and water transportation and busy markets in the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The center of the Riverside Map on Qingming Festival consists of a rainbow-shaped bridge and the street surface of Qiaotou Street. At first glance, crowded and chaotic; A closer look shows that these people are from different industries and engage in various activities. There are some vendors and many tourists on the west side of the bridge. There are knives, scissors and groceries on the stall. There are tea sellers and fortune tellers. Many tourists lean against the railings by the bridge, or point at them, or watch the ships coming and going in the river.

On the sidewalk in the middle of the bridge, there are bustling people; There are people who ride cars, ride horses, carry loads, drive donkeys, transport goods and push unicycles ... The south side of the bridge is connected with the street. On both sides of the street are teahouses, pubs, pawn shops and workshops. There are many vendors with big umbrellas in the open spaces on both sides of the street. The street extends eastward and westward to the quiet suburb outside the city, but there are still pedestrians on the street: some are carrying goods, some are driving ox carts to deliver goods, some are driving donkeys to pull trucks, and some stop to watch the scenery of Bianhe River.

There are many boats coming and going on the Bian River, which can be described as a race in Qian Fan. Some are parked near the dock, and some are driving in the river. Some big ships were overloaded, and the owners hired many trackers to tow them. A big ship carrying goods has passed under the bridge and will soon cross bridge opening. At this time, the boatman on this big ship is very busy. Some people stood at the top of the canopy and put down their sails; Some people are struggling to support the pole by the boat; Some people hold the ceiling of bridge opening with long poles, so that the boat can pass safely with the water. This tense scene attracted the attention of tourists on the bridge and nearby boatmen, who stood by and cheered. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival vividly depicts the busy and tense traffic scene on the Bianhe River, adding more vitality to the painting.

Zhang Zeduan has a high artistic generalization, which makes The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival reach a high artistic level. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is unprecedented in its rich content, numerous characters and grand scale. The picture of Riverside Scene on Qingming Festival is dense and orderly, from quiet suburbs to bustling city streets, attracting people everywhere.

After reading The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, I feel that there are few boats on the border river and Bianjing is not prosperous. Through the description in the book, we will know that the decline of Bianjing is not sudden, but more like a long-planned one. The content of the book is based on the history of the Song Dynasty, which is rigorous in writing and full of charm.

It's a huge book, probably the thickest one I've read recently. The author's mind is ingenious, laying out the scenes in the Qingming Riverside Painting, taking the plum boat on the cover as the main line, and plotting for his own interests in troubled times. In a turbulent world, poor little people will certainly become chess pieces for their own self-interest, or they will put down their morality for their own self-interest and be forced by life.

The characters written by the author are very small and realistic. There are too many characters in the book to remember their names. Characters have different personalities and experiences, but there are also many chivalrous people like Zhao Buyou. They have done steadily in troubled times, and they are a clean stream, washing out a touch of pure land in the polluted environment, and they are a bright pearl in the corrupt and prosperous soil of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The author in the book is very sensitive to numbers, and all the numbers in the book refer to something.

The story is interlocking, from point to surface, involving a large number of characters and cases, and always revolves around Mei Chuan, and readers uncover one mystery after another with suspense, which is very telling. It is also a great beauty to quote famous classics at the beginning of each section, which has the magical effect of summarizing the whole article and highly concentrating and summarizing ideas, which is very good. I will continue to read several other books.

After reading The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, I especially like to enjoy The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, which is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in China. The reel width is 24. 8 cm long, 528. 7 cm is the only fine painting that Zhang Zeduan, a painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, has ever seen. It is a national treasure, which is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The works vividly record the urban life of China in the12nd century, which is unique in the painting history of China and even the world. A total of more than five meters long picture scroll, a total of more than 550 people of all colors, including cattle, horses, mules, donkeys and other livestock, 50 or 60 horses, more than 20 cars and sedan chairs, and more than 20 ships. Houses, bridges, towers, etc. They also have their own characteristics, reflecting the characteristics of architecture in the Song Dynasty. It has high historical value and artistic level.

From The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, we can see several very distinctive artistic features:

First, it is rich in content. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival captures the desired scene by constantly moving the viewpoint. From the vast Yuan Ye, the vast rivers, the towering battlements, to the nails and rivets on ships and cars, the small commodities on vendors, and the words on the market, they are all harmoniously organized into a unified whole.

Second, the structure is rigorous, complicated but not chaotic, long but not redundant, and the paragraphs are clear.

Third, in terms of techniques, the combination of big handwriting and fine handwriting is amazing.

If you have the opportunity, you must go to the Forbidden City in Beijing to see the real thing!

After reading the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, I saw the fourth part of the Riverside Scene Password Series at Qingming Festival, and was immediately circled. I like the first one best, but now I like the fourth one best.

His first appearance was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, where he took two parrots to sweep the grave, and then he casually teased people everywhere with convenient manners and customs, regardless of the surprise of passers-by. At that time, I thought this person was quite lovable. The more I look back, the more I like this role.

Everyone is bound by the rules of the world, and no one is willing or dare to break the rules unless forced to do so. In order to escape Genyue's errand, he played dumb and jumped out unintentionally, feeling very comfortable. Those rules that were not done well and could not be done before have become virtual shadows. From then on, he did whatever he wanted, never spoke straight, and it was not good to yell at people. What snowflake sister, nose bubble brother, duck duckling, always makes people laugh.

He is infatuated but not persistent, and makes every effort to build a platform for water transport instruments. Finally, when the copper block was about to be built, he gave up selling it to his children as a dowry. His reason is, if you can do it, why build it? It suddenly occurred to me that it doesn't matter if you always do what you can when you are doing science problems. Often there is no final result except necessity. Since it can forget what it has done, it is really about the same. Although I am lazy. ...

He is casual but not too much. He is crazy in the eyes of the world, but he has a childlike innocence that many people don't have. Bet with the snow sweeper who is obsessed with cleanliness that he won just for fun and didn't act as promised. Cheng Menban, who has strong self-esteem and self-esteem, can finally feel relieved because of his infection, and the family is happy. He always does whatever he wants. Curious about how eggs hatch chicks, he observed how hens hatch chicks. Finally, he made an old version of the thermostat, but he taught it to a thief.

Zhang Yong, as its name suggests, is a useful person. He is the most presumptuous person and the cleverest one. The code of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is different from the previous one. It pays more attention to the anatomy of human nature, but it is also different from others. Only because of curiosity and interest did he participate in the unsolved case, exposing one truth after another in a joke and revealing the complexity and ugliness of human nature. ...

The world laughed at me for being crazy. I laugh at people who can't see through it. I can't bear it. I really want to continue his story. Hey, wait for part six.

Fortunately, the code of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival has already been finished, otherwise, according to the reading speed, I would be scratching my head anxiously waiting for the update. The author has read the History of the Song Dynasty for five years, and spent three years trying to complete six famous books, each of which is about 500 pages thick enough to hold in his hand! It is this thickness that makes the story so wonderful. It made me feel like I really saw them.

The picture of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival depicts the lively scene at Qingming Festival, but the author writes the crisis under the excitement with his imagination, and I have to admire his imagination. From another point of view, the Riverside Map on Qingming Festival verifies the truth of ups and downs. Song Dynasty was the center of the world economy at that time and the largest economy. Its prosperity can never be clearly explained in a few words, nor can the hardships of the people at the bottom be clearly explained in a few words. Thousands of people draw pictures from thousands of faces, so the author opened up a parallel space on the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival-Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival.

The long scrolls are full of little people in the capital of song dynasty. They are celebrating the festival warmly. There are stalls, bearers, playmakers, and so on. It is these little people in different States that reflect the prosperity of the picture scroll. The author gives these little people vitality and makes them live in the parallel world in the book. All 824 characters in the whole picture have first and last names. Although the story of little people is not more story-telling than the story of big people, little people still have stories of little people. They have greed, hatred, love and faith. Perhaps their stories are all sad in the author's pen, but they give me life and life inspiration.

There are many characters in this book, and the author connected them together with a wonderful pen. The original inadvertently turned into the final big decryption, which led to the victory of the readers. I often wonder why I can't write so many characters with different personalities. They have different personalities, and they are all rushing about for what is in their hearts. Whether it is good or bad, at least everyone is working hard. Just like Ding Douniang's child was abducted, why didn't the child's father, Wei Zhi, go to find it together, but a group of women ran around? Who would have thought that Wei Zhi was actually a member of the kidnapping case until the end? More than 300 children were kidnapped and more than 300 fathers serving in the army were blackmailed.

We are the back waves of the long river of history, and naturally we know the story of the front waves, but the front waves don't know that the front waves are trying to make a living, just like the little people in the picture on the river, although life is never easy. After reading a book, Houlang shouted in his heart, "Why do you still have the heart to play tricks?" Don't you know that your DaSong is dying? Prices soared, the means of subsistence monopolized, and the army collapsed. Can this day of paying for peace last long? "But they won't hear, they live in another parallel space, and we can only see them through books. Maybe they are also looking at us with books and laughing at our stupidity! Zhuang Zhou butterfly dream!

At present, I have read three books, the protagonists of which are Zhao Buyou, Sai Feng and Liang Hang. Their title of "Jue" was not sealed by themselves, but was evaluated by the world. It can be seen that they are superior in detective, talking together and fighting. There are five "absolutes" in Beijing, and two "absolutes" are waiting for me to understand. Zhao Buyou, Sai Feng and Liang Xing seem to have fallen into different dilemmas, but they finally face the same problem. This rapid decline under prosperity cannot be stopped by our own efforts.

It was not until the end of the first book that the reader knew who had died. They thought it was a complete mystery, but we solved it in the second book. The author borrows another story to tell readers that the deceased was Wang Babai, who cheated the richest man in Beijing and wanted to give it to the poor, but touched the interests behind him and was killed. The slain leek, a lovely little girl, appeared again in the second and third films. She came back to life, and the book time returned to Tomb-Sweeping Day, and everything started again.

In The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, there are not only little people who beg for a living, but also spies and assassins from Jin, Liao, Xixia, North Korea and other countries. They all lurked in this painting, and only when the passenger ship crossed Hongqiao, it opened the prelude to the collapse of the Northern Song Dynasty Empire.

After reading The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, the score is only 6, and the fifth part is only 8.2, which is only 0. 1 higher than the second part of the worst series. But this does not mean that the quality of this book is not high. On the contrary, this one is the most amazing one in the series "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" because of its exquisite structure.

Readers who have read the first four books all the way here must be familiar with Mr. Ye Wenbiao's writing techniques: network structure, multi-line narrative, and everyone is the protagonist. But in this part, Mr. Ye Wenbiao changed the way of writing: the book is divided into eight chapters, and each chapter is divided into eight sections, with the hexagrams in the Book of Changes as the title, and each section tells the experiences of different people in roughly the same narrative mode, while Lu Qing is the protagonist, and there will be a "point" at the end of each section. Obviously, this special structure will make readers feel fresh at the beginning, but it will inevitably lead to fatigue after watching it continuously, which is one of the reasons for the low evaluation of this film. But that's why I give this book five stars, because it's actually very difficult to write like this, but there are no repetitive characters in the repetitive narrative mode. Finally, all these thin lines can be recycled and combined into a thick line, which gradually extends from one's home to everyone in the inner court of the palace. The depth of brush strokes has to be admired.

Thematically, this film is mainly about "agriculture". As Teacher Ye Wenbiao himself said, agriculture is the most difficult to write, but it is also the most important, because it is the foundation and discipline of ancient China. At first glance, there will be a feeling of "unruly". How many lives have been killed for such a broken thing? But if we continue reading, we will find that the characters in this book actually cover the character and destiny of most people in the world. Everyone is trapped in "greed and ignorance, love and separation, resentment and hatred", and the suffering of life is vivid. Therefore, although this book is poor in reasoning, it is the best in the series in terms of literariness, but this way of writing the same life suffering with different characters.

In addition, a core reason for the struggle of the characters in this book is that Emperor Wen of Sui's proposal of "enclosure" is equivalent to the confiscation of personal private property, which has led to countless tragedies. From this point of view, although the series of "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" revolves around the "Mei Boat Case" and tells stories that happened in the same time period, the theme of the story is progressive step by step, slowly approaching the root cause of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty. This way of writing also makes the series "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" more and more emotional, and gradually approaches from mystery novels to serious literature.

It is said that in the finale of the sixth episode, the five strange people will get together to solve the case, which can be said to be very exciting!

After reading The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, I finally finished the finale, feeling relaxed and heavy. It's easy to finish this long story of more than two million words, but it's heavy that the characters in the book finally ushered in the ending we all know in the future.

In this film, the five wonders of Bianjing finally get together to solve the mystery, which not only recycles the foreshadowing left in the previous films, but also cracks the five impossible crime piles in Jin Mu, revealing the identity of the mysterious purple clothes guest that runs through six films. From the perspective of suspense reasoning, this book is particularly wonderful, because it combines the five wonders of Bianjing, which can be said to show their magical powers. For the readers who chase down all the way, the reading experience is smooth and pleasant. However, the reason why this book can get a high score of 9. 1 is not only because of the wonderful suspense reasoning, but because the protagonist, no matter how miraculous and clever, can't escape the sad ending. This sense of helplessness and fatalism is the key to the wide acclaim of the series "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival".

Teacher Ye Wenbiao set the story background of the series "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. As we all know, the Northern Song Dynasty was beset by internal troubles and foreign invasion, including Cai Jing, Tong Guan and other treacherous officials, and the Liao, Jin and Xixia were eyeing up outside. In this context, the mysteries faced by the protagonists are bound to be linked with history, and all intrigues are closely related to the rise and fall of the country. Under the cover of the nest, there are no eggs. In the face of the torrent of the times, even a small individual can set off one or two waves, but he can't change the direction of the trend. In the end, he can only drift with the tide and even drown in it. The last chapters of this book describe some supporting roles in the previous films, and how they spent their lives on the eve of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty and at the end of their lives. Here, I have to admire Mr. Ye Wenbiao's brushwork again. The narrative is only sketchy, not deliberately sensational, but it can make people cry and can't bear to read it. ...

Generally speaking, this novel is not only the ending of a historical reasoning novel with a grand pattern and colorful weather, but also the ending of a picture scroll in the Northern Song Dynasty. This book gives people the impression, just like Zhang Zeduan's The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, which shows all aspects of society in the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, and also reflects the different lifestyles of people of different classes at that time. It can be said that the series "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" is neither a martial arts novel nor fantasy novel, but a magnificent epic, describing human nature and destiny.

I look forward to seeing more works by teacher Ye Wenbiao in the future, and also looking forward to seeing more excellent novels in the history of China literature!

Thoughts on the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival 8 "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" Volume 5 "The First Old Home" The Wangs have always been famous. However, after more than one hundred years of continuous decline, in Hui Zong, there is no prominent position of the royal family in the court. Although their reputation is abroad, their life is very difficult.

Especially after the grandson of Prime Minister Wang Dan was involved in the party struggle and died in a foreign land one after another, the Wang family was devastated and eventually came down. The children of this family had to sell their ancestral home and move to Xiangyi village to live on meager land property. Once, the nobles in Beijing became local ordinary farmers.

However, bad bamboo can also produce good bamboo shoots. Among these down-and-out aristocratic children, one person was not satisfied with the status quo, sold the allocated land and began to go out to do business. After decades of accumulation, he finally made a lot of money and became a very rich man. This man is Harper, Wang's eldest son. Unfortunately, something unexpected happened. Wang Hao died of illness, leaving only a youngest son, Wang Xiaohuai, who was only six or seven years old.

The fifth volume of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a series of stories centered on this young child.

Wang Hao's sons died one after another, and it was not until he was fifty-four that he accidentally got a young son. So after Harper's death, Wang Xiaohuai became the highest-ranking member of the royal family. Although he is only six or seven years old, the Wangs in their sixties and seventies have to respectfully call him "Little Uncle".

Wang Xiaohuai was born with a sharp mouth and a monkey face. He is thin, like a monkey, but he is smart. When he learned to speak, after three times of teaching, he was able to recite a volume of the Book of Filial Piety. Before he was three years old, he had memorized four books. There are thousands of words in a scroll of Taoist scriptures, and he only needs to read it three times to remember it roughly. He can skillfully recite a volume of scriptures from beginning to end in one morning, and he can ask questions word for word after one and a half months.

Wang Xiaohuai's cleverness is also reflected in seeing through people's hearts. Although he is very young, his mind is as mature as an adult. His family was rich, and his father died suddenly, leaving him with a weak child. He knew how many people coveted his property. The king's basin flattered him and wanted to take himself as a son. Wang Xiaohuai first made a false promise, and then broke his word. He refused to let Wang Bi adopt, and in the process of kneeling down, he abused the adoption documents because he saw through Wang Bi's plot and attempted to plot his family's land.

His chef looks different. He knew at a glance that she had done something bad, so he played along with others with ulterior motives to assassinate him.

Although Wang Xiaohuai is clever, his temperament is extremely arrogant and stubborn, and he always curses. Because of this, he caused public outrage.

He has a silver slingshot and often carries a bag of chestnuts. He shot him with a slingshot to see who was not pleasing to the eye, calling himself "the little ancestor rewarded the profit market." Because of the seniority, the person who was shot didn't dare to offend, so he just smiled and dodged.

Wang Qi, a descendant of the clan, couldn't bear to watch the wax gourd rot in the ground and helped him pick it up and send it back, but Wang Xiaohuai shot him with a slingshot. Wang Zhong was ordered to teach him to read. Although he looked at him with special respect, he shot Wang Zhong's wife, a jujube in the eye. He took the initiative to find the king to adopt, but humiliated him at the worship ceremony; He lost his husband in his early years, lived a sober life and never saw outsiders. However, Wang Xiaohuai broke into her yard and told her that the "old witch" wanted to kill her.

Wang Qiu's stepmother is short-tempered, abusive and reckless, so is his wife. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are tigresses and lionesses, and their relatives dare not touch or avoid them. However, Wang Xiaohuai is not polite, and her slingshot is accurate.

Wang Xiaohuai never calls people by their names inappropriately. He always gives people all kinds of ugly nicknames. He is also mean when talking to people. Some people have skeletons in their closet, which is inconvenient for humanity. He went up and poked them mercilessly, so he was notorious not only in his own village, but also in the nearby Shiliba Township. Everyone wants him dead.

So there was the assassination on Hongqiao outside Dongshuimen on the fifteenth day of the first month.

So is Wang Xiaohuai really dead?

The answer lies in the fifth volume of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, waiting for you to find it yourself.

Random thoughts on the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival 9 "Although the country is divided, the mountains and rivers remain forever, and the vegetation turns green in spring". Although this poem was written by Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty during the Anshi Rebellion, it is not wrong to use it to describe the Northern Song Dynasty during the Jingkang Rebellion.

In The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival VI: Awakening the World, the famous painting The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival shows the national luck coming to an end in the Northern Song Dynasty and indicates a sad ending. In this book, there are five protagonists: Zhao Buyou, who cares about his country and his people; Compassionate and people-oriented traffic jam; Defend the national defense enemy and consolidate the country and Liang Xing; Have faith and use it moderately; Lu Qing, who loves all beings and has a clear heart. They all cling to the last hope of the Northern Song Dynasty and do their best for the safety of thousands of innocent people in Qian Qian ... But they don't know that spies and assassins from Jin, Liao, Xixia, North Korea and other countries have already spread all over the city in the seemingly prosperous Bianjing City. When the cruise ship slowly passes through the crowded Hongqiao, the bloody plot that affects all countries is on the verge, and the towering buildings in the Northern Song Dynasty turn into dust in an instant.

What shocked me most about The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival was its huge amount of words. There are 824 characters on the screen alone, and the author has to arrange reasonable life experiences and set appropriate plots for so many characters. Almost everyone has their own unique life trajectory, personality causes, psychological pain points and fate choices. Therefore, the number of characters in the book has already exceeded 1,000, which not only describes the vastness and profundity of all sentient beings, but also outlines the subtlety of the inner world.

Secondly, I admire the author's magnificent layout in the book. The author uses the types of mystery novels to describe the social life panorama of the whole dynasty and the great fate of the times. All kinds of large and small cases in The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival add up to about 100. These cases are interrelated and together constitute a big case-a big conspiracy to destroy the Northern Song Dynasty.

In a sense, The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival can be called "the fifth masterpiece" and it is a masterpiece.

After reading The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, how many of these interlocking cases and the close contact of mahjong are for selfish desires? How much is it to punish evil and promote good and save people's hearts? Perhaps a well-planned design sprouted from interests and resentment, but the series connection between them and the help and consideration between familiarity are not only the connection of sincerity and goodwill? Innocent and upright men, smart and brave women, in seemingly sincere mutual assistance, have become promoters of overthrowing the country and ignoring the safety of the people. If we are lucky, a group of bright lights with pure hearts will see through these lonely, old, poor, neglected or mediocre victims, and they will finally understand that they have just been kicked off the ladder by these powerful and unscrupulous people.

When reading this book, I often ask in my letters, is it really necessary to kill a person like this? Is it out of fame, revenge or resentment? No matter who you kill, whether it's an enemy with thousands of pieces, an ordinary person you've never met, or even a relative you live with day and night, don't you just cut a knife in your heart first A knife that can't wash away the sin in the heart, a knife that gives up the complete spiritual world. The implementation of this step, like a chain reaction, is deeply engraved in the hearts of the relatives of the deceased. Is endless, so there is endless hatred and endless grievances.

Reading the Riverside Scene on the Qingming Festival: 1 1 Recently, I became fascinated with knitting sweaters. I feel that only two hands are busy and two eyes are idle, which is a waste. Listening to books, watching mobile phones and watching TV will affect family members. At this time, the advantages of Kindle are highlighted. While knitting a sweater, I finished reading The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a mystery novel based on the scene depicted in Zhang Zeduan's famous painting Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty. The author has a certain skill in burying the story, which attracts me to uncover the mystery and tickles my heart. When I was a child, I loved reading brain-burning reasoning books, but my fragile little heart couldn't bear the stimulation of killing. My heart beats up and down with the development of the plot, happy and sad.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is my favorite meticulous Chinese painting, which truly reflects the life of ordinary people in Kaifeng during the Qingming Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty. Each character in the novel is given a name, and the plot development depends on his occupation, including joys and sorrows, relatives and friends. In the author's pen, a picture of prosperity in my mind turned into a scene of killing people. After reading it, I can't help wondering: is the creation of the novel a success or a failure? Destroyed the good impression in my heart and made the characters in the painting look disgusting and dangerous; It succeeded in attracting me again. I can't put it down to solve the mystery.

In fact, human nature is also the embodiment of a kind of thought, whether good or evil lies in the moment of choice. Therefore, I can only pursue truth, goodness and beauty in my own mind, and at the same time appreciate the author's ingenious writing and ingenious ideas, and experience various ways of life.