Appreciation of Zhang Zeduan's Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is based on the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, which shows the long and prosperous social life at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. The whole map adopts panoramic composition, separated by natural landscape, and can be roughly divided into three plates: village, Bianhe and market. The first paragraph depicts the countryside, sparsely populated, with small bridges and flowing water, and village roads for business travel;

With the appearance of huge waterwheels and Hongqiao, people's activities are gradually enriched, houses and streets are lined up, and the crowded crowd and the meticulous description of the five elements and eight workers make the picture reach its peak; With the disappearance of the Bianhe River in the picture, the whole volume entered the bustling streets of the city, but the emotions expressed in the picture gradually tended to be stable and quiet, and soon after entering the city gate, the whole volume came to an abrupt end.

The picture scroll is like a beautiful symphony, ups and downs, dynamic and static combination, long and not redundant. In fact, it is the artistic crystallization of the author's long-term in-depth life and finally formed by pen and ink. The most precious thing about this picture is that it records the real feelings at that time in detail, which is consistent with most literature records.

In the Ming Dynasty, Li Dongyang wrote in The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival: "The so-called people and things are too numerous to mention. But the brushwork is simple, the idea is vivid, and its special shape is hidden, accurate to the back, but it is not the time to correct it. Du Shaoling's so-called' no regrets' is hard to remember for a long time. "

Zhang Zeduan's "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" has become an outstanding work with immortal significance in the history of ancient painting in China with its unusually rich content, high historical authenticity and extremely vivid artistic expression.

The author has a profound feeling and a very extensive and accurate understanding of the rich knowledge and in-depth observation of urban social life, especially the life of "ordinary people and little people" who are not valued by ordinary "experts and elegant people". The author's full creative enthusiasm, persistent efforts, serious creative attitude, rich artistic imagination and meticulous artistic expression all have exemplary significance in the history of painting.