What is the treasure of the town hall of the Palace Museum in Beijing?

Along the River During the Qingming Festival

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a genre painting in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is also one of the top ten famous paintings handed down in China. Width 24.8 cm, length 528.7 cm, silk color. It is a masterpiece only seen by Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, and a first-class national treasure. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival vividly records the urban life of China in the12nd century, which is unique in the painting history of China and even the world.

In the form of a long scroll, the work uses the composition method of scattered perspective to bring complicated scenery into a unified and changeable picture scroll. This painting is mainly divided into two parts, one is the countryside and the other is the market. There are 8 14 people, 83 livestock, 29 ships, more than 30 buildings, 13 cars, 14 cars, 17 bridges, and about 180 trees in the painting. They wear different clothes and look lifelike, with various activities interspersed.

Gold inlaid gold jewelry Jin' ou Gu Yong Cup

This cup is 12.5cm in height, 8cm in diameter and 5cm in foot height. It was made during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1739) and was used by the current emperors at the celebration held on the first day of the New Year's Day. Dragon-shaped tripod ears, elephant-nose-shaped tripod feet, cups full of precious flowers, pearls and rubies as flower hearts. One side of the cup is engraved with the words "Jin Ou Gu Yong". This cup has always been regarded as a precious ancestral magic weapon by the Qing emperor.

Qingganlong Black Paint Painted Pavilion Fairy Birthday Bell

The clock is in the shape of a two-story pavilion, painted with wooden tires and black paint. There is a double-needle clock in the middle of the first floor, and the clock plate engraved with the words "Qianlong Year System" is decorated with yellow enamel unique to the organizational system. The five winding holes on the clock face control five functions respectively: walking time, telling time, lettering, opening and closing doors and playing music. There are changing scenery boxes on the left and right sides of the clock plate. The performance theme of the left landscape frame is "Tian Hai Ju", and the performance theme of the right landscape frame is "Birthday of the Immortal". There are three rooms on the second floor, and each room has a timer. Every 3, 6, 9, 12, the door opened and three people came out slowly with bell bowls in their hands. After standing, the person on the left rings the bell bowl and makes a "ding" sound, while the person on the right rings the bell bowl and makes a "ding" sound. "Ding" sounds for a quarter of an hour, twice for two minutes, and so on. Four minutes later, the man in the middle. Time is up, the music begins, and the movable equipment in the scene box begins to work. In the left picture frame, there are cranes proudly standing among the mountains, the immortals of Xiangyun slowly rise, and a Qionglou suddenly floats in the sea of clouds. The birthday girl and the staff in the right viewing platform receive the treasures presented by the Eight Immortals in turn. At the end of the day, people return to the door, the building door closes and the movable equipment in the scene box is reset.

This clock has seven sets of mechanical systems, which control time, time and movable devices in the scene box respectively, and the technical level is quite high. During the Qianlong period, a group of western watchmakers and technicians with professional knowledge gathered in the clock-making room of the factory, which can reflect their level.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a genre painting in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is also one of the top ten famous paintings handed down in China.