Who is the author of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival?

The author of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is Zhang Zeduan, a painter in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down by China. It is a genre painting of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is the only representative work of Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is 24.8 cm wide and 528.7 cm long, and it is in silk color. In the form of a long scroll, the work vividly records the city appearance of Tokyo (also known as Bianjing, now Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty in China in the12nd century, and the living conditions of people from all walks of life at that time. It is a witness to the prosperity of Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty, and also a portrayal of the urban economic situation in the Northern Song Dynasty.

This is unique in the history of painting in China and even in the world. In the five-meter-long picture scroll, a large number of various figures are drawn, including cattle, mules, donkeys and other livestock, cars, sedan chairs, large and small ships, houses, bridges and towers, which all reflect the architectural characteristics of the Song Dynasty.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival adopts the method of constantly moving the viewpoint, that is, "scatter perspective" to capture the required scene. From the vast Yuan Ye, the vast rivers, the towering battlements, to the nails and rivets on ships and cars, the small commodities on vendors, and the words on the market, they are all harmoniously organized into a unified whole. There are officials, farmers, businessmen, doctors, monks, Taoist priests, petty officials, women, children, teachers, telegraphs and other figures, as well as donkeys, cows and so on. There are fairs, trading, hanging out, drinking, parties, pushing boats, pulling carts, riding cars, riding horses and so on. There are many shops, hotels, teahouses and dim sum shops in the street, as well as towers, river ports, bridges, cargo ships, government buildings and thatched cottages.