What did you find on the Qingming Riverside Map?

As well as the description of the activities of people from all walks of life on both sides of the Bian River with Hongqiao as the center, reflect some social life in this historical period.

Side. Hanlin Zhang Zeduan (AD12nd century), a native of Zhucheng, Shandong Province, was a professional painter at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. I used to work in the Painting Academy, and I was good at drawing figures.

Things, pavilions, boats, cars, etc. The distance between the bridge on the wall and the house is high or low, including grass, trees, horses, cows, donkeys, camels and pedestrians.

Ships and cars go back and forth, all written to the best of their ability, countless. The whole scene is huge and rich in content. The painter uses a high degree of generalization and concentration.

Skills, a wide and detailed description of a variety of complex social images and folk customs. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, an immortal masterpiece, regardless of

No matter from the artistic value or historical value of painting, it is a national treasure.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is 525 cm long and 25.5 cm wide, including 684 figures, 96 animals, 122 houses and 8 sedan chairs.

Top, 25 boats, 124 trees.

The Northern Song Dynasty genre painting Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. A masterpiece handed down from generation to generation, a first-class national treasure. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is one of the most famous works in China's painting history. It is not only of superb artistic level, but also has many interesting stories circulating around it.

Author Zhang Zeduan, whose name is Zhengdao, was born in Wu Dong (now Zhucheng, Shandong Province). Song Huizong is a court painter. When I was a teenager, I went to study in the capital city of Bianliang (now Kaifeng, Henan). After that, I learned painting, especially painting boats and cars, painting urban bridges, painting Guo Jing, and getting married. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is Zhang Zeduan's masterpiece, which was collected by Xuanhe Neifu in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is a light-colored silk book with a height of 24.8 cm and a length of 528.7 cm. The original is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival records the architecture and people's livelihood in the suburbs of Bianjing (now Kaifeng), the capital of Hui Zong era, and on both sides of Bianhe River in the city with exquisite brushwork. This painting depicts the bustling scene and natural scenery on both sides of Bianliang and Bianhe, the capital 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 complicated scenery into a unified and changeable picture. There are more than 500 people in the painting, with different clothes and expressions, interspersed with various activities, paying attention to drama, dense composition, changing rhythm and rhythm, and ingenious brushwork. The whole picture is divided into three sections.

The first paragraph, Bianjing rural spring:

In the sparse forest mist, there are several huts, grass bridges, running water, old trees and boats. Two porters are driving five donkeys loaded with charcoal. They are going to town. Willow forest, branches

It's just a hint of green, which makes people feel that although it's chilly in spring, it's already spring back to the earth. In the sedan chair on the road, a woman sat in it. The top of the sedan chair is decorated with willow flowers, and the sedan chair follows the horse.

, carrying the burden, came back from the suburbs of Beijing for an outing to sweep the grave. The description of the environment and characters points out the specific time and customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which opens the curtain for the whole painting.

In the middle section, the busy Bianhe Wharf:

Bianhe River is the hub of national grain transportation in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is also the main road of commercial traffic. As can be seen from the picture, the population is dense, food ships gather, some people are resting in the teahouse, and some people are telling fortune.

Some people eat in restaurants. There is also the "Wang's Paper Horse Shop", which is a grave sweeper selling sacrifices. Ships in the river come and go, end to end, dragged by trackers, rowed by boatmen, and some are full of goods.

Upstream, some ships landed and were nervously unloading. Across the Bianhe River is a large wooden arch bridge with exquisite structure and beautiful shape. Such as flying rainbow, hence the name.

Hongqiao. There is a big ship waiting to cross the bridge. The boatman is supported by bamboo poles; Hook the bridge with a long pole; Lead the boat with hemp rope; Several people are busy lowering the mast so that the ship can

Only through. People in the neighboring ship are also pointing, as if shouting something. Both inside and outside the ship are busy crossing the bridge for this ship. People on the bridge are also trying to cross the river.

The tense situation makes employees feel nervous. This is the well-known Hongqiao pier, which is full of traffic and bustling, and is really the intersection of land and water transportation.

In the second half, busy city streets:

Centered on the tall towers, there are rows of houses on both sides, including teahouses, restaurants, foot shops, meat shops, temples, public halls and so on. There are silks and satins, jewels and spices in the shop.

Specialized trades such as incense and paper horses are available in all walks of life except medical clinics, car repair, fortune telling, shaving and plastic surgery, and big shops are also tied with "colorful buildings".

"Ring Gate", with the banner of the city head hanging, soliciting business, pedestrians in the market, pushing each other, endless stream, businessmen doing business, gentry looking at the street view, officials riding horses, and telephone callers.

Vendors include family members sitting in sedan chairs, monks carrying baskets, foreign tourists asking for directions, street children who have heard of books, and tycoons who binge drink in restaurants.

Brother, there are begging disabled old people, men, women and children, scholars, farmers, workers, businessmen and everything on the edge of the city. Transportation: sedan chair, camel, ox cart, rickshaw and

Flat cars, flat cars, all kinds, everything. Vividly displayed in front of people.

In a total of more than five meters long picture scroll, * * * painted more than 550 people of various colors, including 50 or 60 cattle, horses, mules, donkeys and other livestock, more than 20 cars and bridges, and large and small boats.

More than twenty ships. Houses, bridges, towers, etc. They also have their own characteristics, reflecting the characteristics of architecture in the Song Dynasty. Zhang Zeduan's Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a scene depicting a corner of Bianjing City in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Realistic genre painting has high historical value and artistic level.

In the history of painting, there are many paintings called The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, but there is only one original. After many scholars and experts have studied this topic, everyone's opinion is basically the same.

By now, everyone thinks that this painting of the Palace Museum in Beijing is an original of Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty. Other paintings of the same name were later copied or imitated by Zhang Zeduan.