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Zhang Zeduan (about 1085-1145) [1], the word Zhengdao, Han nationality, born in Luangya Wudong (present-day Shandong Zhucheng), living in Tokyo (present-day Henan Kaifeng), Northern Song Dynasty painting master. Xuannian years as a noble consort, specializing in painting buildings, houses, trees and people. His customary paintings of stores, bridges, streets and city walls were detailed, precise and vivid. He studied hard since he was a child, and studied in Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng, Henan Province) in his early years, and then learned painting.

When Emperor Huizong of Song worked in the Hanlin Painting Academy, he specialized in painting court borders, and was especially good at painting boats, stores, bridges, streets and city walls. Afterward, he sold paintings for a living, and with no place to live in his house, he wrote West Lake Bidding and Qingming Shanghe Tu. The surviving works include "Qingming Riverside Drawing" and "Jinming Pond Auction Drawing", which are treasures of ancient Chinese art.

Zhang Zeduan[2] was a good student since childhood, studying in Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng, Henan Province) in his early years, and then learning painting. When Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty worked at the Hanlin Painting Academy, he was a world painter. He was an outstanding realist painter in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and most of his other works are lost. His "Qingming Shanghe Tu" and "Jinming Bidding Pool" are treasures of ancient Chinese art.

The Qingming Riverside Scroll is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing. In addition, the Tianjin Museum of Art has a small "Bidding for West Lake" signed by "Zhang Zeduan", which is a commissioned work and has been transferred to the Tianjin Museum. Qingming Shanghe Tu" still exists today, is "Tokyo dream", "holy site fugu", "border fugu" and other works of the best illustrations, very historical value. It inherits and develops both the long-lost ancient Chinese custom paintings and the fine tradition of historical custom paintings of the early Northern Song Dynasty.

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Zhang Zeduan was a famous painter of the late Northern Song Dynasty. There is no historical record of Zhang Zeduan's life experience in the history books, and it has remained a mystery for thousands of years. About the "Qingming Shanghe Tu" information and author information only 85 words, is the Palace Museum's existing "Shiqu Baozheng collection" third edition of the back of the first inscription Zhang wrote a postscript. The full text of the postscript is as follows: "Hanlin Zhang Zeduan, the word is also a person. I studied in the capital when I was young, and later learned painting. I especially like the boat and car, stone bridge town of Guo Jing, and not home. According to the item "comment on the map", "west lake bidding map", "Qingming Shanghe Tu" selected God's work."

Only 58 years after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Zhuo, a native of Azin, wrote an 85-word postscript in print on the back of the "Qingming Riverside Drawing". Zhang Zhuo's postscript is the earliest record of Zhang Zeduan's life story and the only one in the world (it can be called a solitary record). These 71 words were the basis for the later Qingming Shanghe Tu and its author. I do not have the exact dates of Zhang Zhuchong's birth and death. Volume 7 of the Zhongzhou Collection has this textual record: "Zhou, with the character Zhongyang, was a native of Yong'an. In the fifth year of Taihe (1205 A.D.), he was summoned to meet Yingzhi for a poem and called as an ambassador. Specially authorized to paint and draw in the inner court." It can be seen that Zhang Zhuo's "Afterword to Qingming Shanghe Tu" was written 19 years before Zhang Zhuo entered the Jin inner court, when Zhang Zhuo was still relatively young.

The introduction to Zhang Zeduan and his works in Zhang Zhi's postscript is quoted from Xiang Shu Paintings and Calligraphy. Shi Xiang's Commentary on Calligraphy and Painting is the earliest source on Zhang Zeduan and the Qingming Shanghe Tu. Unfortunately, the book, Commentary on Xiang's Calligraphy and Painting, has been lost. About the Qingming Shanghe Tu and Zhang Zeduan, we can only know a little from the postscript of Zhang's book. Zhang Zeduan and the Qingming Riverside Drawing have been famous for generations to come.

Before there is any other reliable new material, we can only learn about the Qingming Shanghe Tu and its author from these 71 words of Zhang's writings.

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