Appreciation of Riverside Map in Qingming Festival

This volume The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival depicts Suzhou in the middle of Ming Dynasty, reflecting the prosperity of Suzhou City at that time. The deep house compound, tall city walls and rows of shops in the painting all highlight this point.

From the details of the paintings, gold lacquer, fine mounted poems and paintings, tin ware making, dyehouse and bronze ware making are all characteristics of Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty, while brothel, bookstore, southern goods, bright flowers and female workers bronze needles can make people feel the charm of Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty.

colour

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a genre painting with heavy colors. The use of colors is very flexible and just right, which reflects the author's originality everywhere.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a colorful genre painting created by Chou Ying, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, which is now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum. There are many works handed down by Chou Ying, The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. In addition to this volume, there are other books from Qingzhou Museum and National Palace Museum in Taipei, as well as many books in private hands.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, collected by Liaoning Provincial Museum, is widely circulated, and is generally regarded as the original work of Chou Ying in academic circles.

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Creation background

Time background

In the mid-Ming Dynasty (about 1435~ 1572), the overall social economy became increasingly prosperous, which made the concept of commodity production and trading exchange gradually penetrate into the cultural and artistic fields at that time, and actively promoted the linear prosperity of culture and art.

Many paintings in this stage were based on the traditional art and culture of Song and Yuan Dynasties. Some European missionaries and outstanding businessmen brought the painting spirit attached to the Renaissance stage, which made the overall development of art in this period more vigorous and energetic.

Subject source

Most of Paintings of Ming Dynasty's content is based on the buying and selling scenes of commodities. Every place has a painting place to copy ancient paintings. It is precisely because of this that most painters choose painting themes to cater to the hobbies of officials and ordinary people, and then paint.

At that time, the painters did not accept the original author's works in the process of copying, and they would not remain the same. Painters will keep pace with the times, add or delete pictures appropriately according to the economic situation and their own feelings at that time, and at the same time, portray people's living conditions, economic conditions and entertainment content while fully interpreting the painting content.