What is the significance of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival?

Significance of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival;

It is unique in the history of painting in China and even in the world. In this five-meter-long picture scroll, * * * painted more than 500 people of various colors, including dozens of cattle, mules, donkeys and other livestock, more than 20 cars and sedan chairs, and 29 ships of different sizes. Houses, bridges and towers have their own characteristics, which embodies the architectural characteristics of the Song Dynasty. It has high historical value and artistic value.

Composition information of Qingming Riverside Map:

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival depicts the situation of Tokyo (now Kaifeng, Henan Province), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, mainly focusing on the natural scenery and prosperity of Bianjing and its two sides.

The riverside scene on Qingming Festival was a folk custom at that time. Like today's holiday party, people get together to participate in business activities. The whole map is roughly divided into three parts: the spring scenery on the outskirts of Bianjing, the scenery of Bianhe and the market in the city.

Appreciation of the content of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival;

From the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, we can see several very distinctive artistic features: this painting is written with pens and works, and its color is elegant, which is different from the general boundary painting, that is, the so-called "number of families". The composition adopts a bird's-eye panoramic view method, which truly and intensively depicts the typical area in the southeast corner of Bianjing at that time. The author uses the traditional hand-rolled form and "scattered perspective" to organize the picture. The picture is long but not redundant, complicated but not chaotic, tight and compact, in one go. The scenery in the painting is as big as the silent Yuan Ye, as big as the vast rivers and as big as the towering battlements; As small as the characters on the boat, the goods displayed on the vendors and the words on the market, there was no loss. The picture of more than 500 words is interspersed with various plots, which is coherent and interesting at the same time.