How to estimate the number of people on the riverside map at Qingming Festival?

Zhang Zeduan, a famous painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, painted the immortal masterpiece The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, which is priceless in the painting history of China. It is a long scroll genre painting created by realistic means, which vividly reproduces the prosperous scene of Bianjing Chengping period in the Northern Song Dynasty through a detailed description of street life. The first collector of this painting was Song Huizong, who wrote the words "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" in fine gold.

This masterpiece, which is well-known at all times and at home and abroad, has been appreciated by countless collectors and connoisseurs for more than 800 years after its publication, and is the goal of later emperors and dignitaries. Zhang Zeduan's "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" is so huge that it must have a meaning. So what do the words "Qingming Festival" and "Riverside Scene" mean?

Experts and scholars on the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival have come to three views through textual research on Qingming Festival:

First, "the meaning of Tomb-Sweeping Day". Experts and scholars who hold the view of "Tomb-Sweeping Day" include the late Mr. Zheng Zhenduo, an expert on cultural relics, and Mr. Xu Bangda, an expert on calligraphy and painting. Mr Zheng Zhenduo even pointed out that it was Tomb-Sweeping Day that day.

Second, "the meaning of Qingming Square". The expert and scholar who holds the view of "Qingming Square" is the late Mr. Kong from Kaifeng Middle School in Henan. 198 1 Mr. Kong published an article "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival-Questioning" in Art magazine. In his article, Mr. Kong believes that autumn scenery was painted by textual research on charcoal, stones, fans, watermelons and costumes. Qingming means "Qingming Square".

Third, "the meaning of Tomb-Sweeping Day". There is a famous expert, Mr. Shi Shuqing, who holds the view of "Qingming Prosperity". Mr. Shi Shuqing pointed out: "Qingming does not refer to the day of Tomb-Sweeping Day, but as a kind of morality to praise the peaceful and prosperous times. Qingming means political clarity. " Zhang Zeduan's The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down in China, which has high historical value and artistic level. However, there are different opinions about the number of people in the painting.

Due to the large number of people and different sizes on the Qingming Riverside Map, it is difficult to make accurate statistics. Therefore, how many people are painted in each book varies greatly.

It has always been thought that the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival has more than 500 characters, more than 50 livestock, more than 20 boats, cars and sedan chairs.

However, after an old gentleman got a copy of this painting, he accurately counted the characters on the painting and found that there were 8 15 people on the riverside scene at Qingming Festival. The original statement was too wrong. His statistical method was to put a grain of rice on everyone in the picture. After all set, count how many grains of rice there are. He counted several times, and 8 15 was his final answer.

Another way of saying it is that the Riverside Map on Qingming Festival is divided into two parts, one is the countryside and the other is the market. There are 8 14 people, more than 60 livestock, 28 ships, more than 30 buildings, 20 cars, 8 cars and more than 70 trees/kloc-0.

There is also a saying that Kenji Saito wrote "Sakhito Mandarin?" According to the statistics in the eighth volume, there are 1643 people and 208 animals on the painting.

It can be seen that no one knows how many people there are on the riverside map at Qingming Festival.

Why don't you know the number of people in an existing famous painting? I believe many people have this question. That's because the Riverside Map on Qingming Festival is 24.8 cm wide and 528.7 cm long, and it is huge, including people from all walks of life, including handyman, juggler, actor, beggar, almsgiving monk, fortune teller, spiritual practitioner, innkeeper, teacher, miller, ironworker, carpenter, mason and scholar.

The figures in the painting are shoulder to shoulder and there are a sea of people. It's hard to count. There are still many people in the painting who are not plump, only "busts" exist, and some even have a pair of feet. In addition, some bearers are carrying sedan chairs. Does the person in the sedan chair count as the person in The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival? If this person does not appear in the picture, if not, then there is a person in the sedan chair, and it is impossible to count.

There are many situations like this in the painting, and there are many reasons why the characters in the painting are very different. For example, the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival has many replicas, the most famous of which is the replica collected by the Palace Museum in Taiwan. This is the work of five painters in the Qing Palace Painting Academy in the first year of Qianlong. Now we still don't know how many people are in the painting, but people should pay attention to the artistic characteristics and historical value of the painting, which explains why the Palace Museum doesn't announce how many people are there.