It is generally believed that what season is depicted in the genre painting Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty?

1. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival depicts the scene of spring.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. There is a willow forest in the painting, and the branches have just turned green, which is obviously spring back to the earth. On the road, there is a sedan chair with a woman sitting in it. The top of the sedan chair is decorated with willows and flowers, followed by riders and bearers, returning from an outing in the suburbs of Beijing to sweep the grave. The description of the environment and characters points out the specific time and customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which opens the curtain for the whole painting.

Second, a brief introduction to the Qingming Riverside Map

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a genre painting of the Northern Song Dynasty by Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, and one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in China. This painting is 25.2 cm wide and 528.7 cm long. The work vividly records the city appearance of Tokyo (now Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of China in the Northern Song Dynasty 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 Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and also a portrayal of the economic situation of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The composition of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival 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 Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is not only a simple description of people's customs and daily life, but also a hidden mystery under the appearance of commercial prosperity. There is a frightening hidden line under the bright line, and it is also a "prosperous and dangerous map" with a sense of urgency. Zhang Zeduan raised his worries about many social problems, such as the city defense, security and traffic.