The Main Contents of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival

In this five-meter-long picture scroll, * * * depicts a large number of characters, cattle, mules, donkeys and other livestock, cars, sedan chairs, large and small ships, houses, bridges, towers and other features, reflecting the characteristics of architecture in the Song Dynasty.

It has high historical value and artistic value. Although the scene of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is lively, it is not a bustling city scene, but a "bustling and dangerous picture" with a sense of urgency. Officers and men are lazy and pay heavy taxes.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival adopts the method of constantly moving the viewpoint, that is, "scattered 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, fortune tellers, monks, Taoist priests, petty officials, women, children, teachers, cable car drivers and animals such as donkeys, cows and camels.

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.

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From the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, we can see several very distinctive artistic features: this painting is written with pens and works, and its color is elegant, which is different from the general boundary painting, that is, the so-called "number of families".

The composition adopts a bird's-eye panoramic view method, which truly and intensively depicts the typical area in the southeast corner of Bianjing at that time. The author uses the traditional hand-rolled form and "scattered perspective" to organize the picture.

The picture is long but not redundant, complicated but not chaotic, tight and compact, in one go. The scenery in the painting is as big as the silent Yuan Ye, as big as the vast rivers and as big as the towering battlements; As small as the characters on the boat, the goods displayed on the vendors and the words on the market, there was no loss. The picture is interspersed with various plots, which is coherent and interesting at the same time.

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