The composition method used in Qingming Shanghe Tu

The compositional method of scattered perspective is used.

The Qingming Riverside Painting, created by Zhang Zeduan, a court painter during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, is a work of marketplace custom painting on silk, with ink and light coloring, measuring 24.8 centimeters longitudinally and 528.7 centimeters horizontally. The painting is in the form of a long scroll and adopts the composition method of scattered perspective, vividly reproducing the appearance of city life in Kaifeng of the Northern Song Dynasty, with high historical value and artistic level, and is one of the ten most famous heirloom paintings in China.

Expanded Information:

p>Scattered Perspective Composition:

Perspective, a term used exclusively in painting and other plastic arts. When a painter paints, he or she represents objective objects correctly on a flat surface so that they have a sense of three-dimensionality and a sense of space between distance and nearness; this method is called perspective.

History of use:

As early as the North and South Dynasties, Zong Bing's "Preface to the Painting of Landscapes" said: "Going a little wide, it is seen to be very small. Today, open the serigraphy to reflect from afar, the shape of the Kun Lang (Kunlun Mountains), can be surrounded by a thousand square inches; vertical painting three inches, when a thousand cuts of high; horizontal ink a few feet, the body of a hundred miles of very large." He was talking about using a piece of transparent "serigraphy" to move the vast landscape into it, and the phenomenon of big near and small far can be found. This is the earliest discussion of the principle of perspective in the history of painting.

In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei's "Theory of Landscape" proposed that the key to dealing with perspective in landscape painting is: "Zhanshan feet of trees, inches of horses and people, far from the people without eyes, far from the tree without branches, far from the mountain without stones, hidden as eyebrows (diaper color), far from the water without waves, high and cloud Qi." Visible at that time, landscape painters are valued the law of perspective.

By the Song Dynasty, the perspective of Chinese landscape painting had formed a complete system.

But until today, Chinese painting still maintains the use of scattered perspective painting method.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Scattered-point Perspective

People's Daily Online - Cheng Minsheng on the Cultural Effects of "Qingming Riverside Drawing"