Appreciation of the Qingming Riverside Drawing 500 words or so urgent

"On the River at Qingming" is a Northern Song Dynasty customs scroll, the author Zhang Zeduan, word Zhengdao (also known as the word Wenyou), Dongwu (today's Shandong Zhucheng) people, the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the famous painter, Song Huizong when the court painter.

The painting scroll "Qingming Shanghe Tu" has lasted for a thousand years since its introduction. It is one of the most famous works in the history of Chinese painting. Qingming Shanghe Tu is also the painting with the largest number of fakes, imitations and facsimiles, with more than 100 versions, making it difficult to defend the authenticity of the painting. Part of it is intentionally faked and mixed with fish eyes. Part of it is copied and learned, and part of it is recreated in the style of "Qingming Riverside Drawing".

Zhang Zeduan since childhood, a young man traveled to the capital city of Bianliang (now Kaifeng, Henan Province), and then study painting, Huizong dynasty for the Hanlin Painting Academy, Xuanhe years Hanlin to be imperial edict, good painting city bridge path Guo, boats and bridges. Qingming Riverside is his masterpiece, which was once collected by the Xuanhe inner palace. Silk, pale colors, 24.8 cm long, 528.7 cm across, now in the Palace Museum, Beijing.

The Qingming Riverside Painting depicts the prosperous scene and natural scenery of Bianliang, the capital city of the Northern Song Dynasty, and both sides of the Bian River during the Qingming Festival. The painting focuses on the prosperous and bustling towns and villages, markets, and waterways of Bianjing, the political and economic center of the Northern Song Dynasty, from the perspectives of commerce, transportation, waterway, and buildings, etc., and it is a masterpiece of art reflecting the life situation of ancient societies. It is a masterpiece of art reflecting the life of ancient society.

The scroll is in the form of a long scroll, adopting the composition method of scattered perspective, incorporating complicated scenes into a unified and varied picture, with more than 500 figures in the picture, dressed in different clothes and with different looks, interspersed with various activities, focusing on drama, sparse and dense composition, focusing on the changes in the sense of rhythm and rhyme, and skillful writing and ink strokes.

Busy Bianhe River Pier

Bianhe River is the hub of waterway and commercial transportation in Northern Song Dynasty. From the picture, we can see that there are dense population, grain ships gathering, people are resting in the teahouse, fortune-telling, and eating in the restaurant. There is also the "Wang family paper horse store", is the tomb to sell offerings, the river boat to and fro, head to tail, or fiberglass pull, or boatman sculling, some loaded with goods, against the current, and some docked, is nervous about unloading.

Crossing the Bianhe River is a large-scale wooden arch bridge, it is a delicate structure, beautiful form, like a rainbow, so it is called the Rainbow Bridge. A big boat is waiting to cross the bridge. Boatmen with bamboo poles; with a long pole hooked to the bridge; with hemp rope to hold the boat; there are a few people busy lowering the mast, so that the boat through. The men in the neighboring boats were also pointing and shouting as if they were shouting something. Both inside and outside the boat were busy with the boat crossing the bridge. People on the bridge are also sweating over the tense situation of crossing the bridge. This is the famous Hongqiao wharf area, which is bustling with traffic and is a veritable meeting point for land and water transportation.

The bustling downtown streets

Centered on the tall city tower, the buildings on either side are lined with tea houses, liquor stores, foot stores, butcher stores, temples, public houses and so on.

Shops specializing in damask and silk, jewelry and spices, incense and paper horses, etc., in addition to medical clinics, car repairs, fortune-telling, face-lifting, all walks of life, everything, the big stores also tied the door "colorful building happy door", hanging banners, soliciting business, market pedestrians, shoulder to shoulder, endless streams of business, there is a businessman. The endless flow of pedestrians in the market, shoulder-to-shoulder, there are doing business with the merchants, there is to see the streetscape of the gentry, there are officials on horseback, there are hawkers, there are sedan chair family members, there are carrying a basket of walking monks, there are asking for directions to the countryside tourists, there are heard the book of the streets and alleys of the children, there are restaurants in the wild drinking of the son of the family, there are the side of the city begging the handicapped old man, men, women and children, the scholar-peasants-industrialist-businessman, the three teachings and nine streams, everything is not ready.

Transportation means of transport sedan chair, camel, oxen and horse-drawn carts, rickshaws, pinto cars, flathead cars, all shapes and colors, all kinds of things. Drawing colors and shapes in front of people's eyes.

Totaling more than five meters in the scroll, *** painted more than five hundred and fifty colorful characters, cattle, horses, mules, donkeys and other livestock five, sixty horses, cars, bridges more than twenty, the size of the ship more than twenty. Houses, bridges and citadels also have their own characteristics, reflecting the architecture of the Song Dynasty.

"Qingming Shanghe Tu" is worthy of being a realistic custom painting depicting a corner of Bianjing City in the Northern Song Dynasty, with high historical value and artistic level.