What is the historical significance of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival?

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is convenient for later generations to understand and study the folk customs of the Northern Song Dynasty, which embodies the prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty. At the same time, the painting method of this painting is also very superb, which is worth learning. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty is a very important genre painting in the history of China, and it is also a national treasure collection in the world today. Why this painting has such great research value and historical significance is mainly related to its content and techniques.

The painter in The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is very good, which is of great reference value to the painter. The first thing we can see at a glance is the difficulty of completion. The whole painting is more than five meters long, but the people and things it contains are incredible. Just putting so many people in one painting is a great thing. At the same time, it is also beautiful. The scenery in the suburbs and the city is obvious and special. The scattered perspective composition method is adopted, and the lines are full.

Of course, the most meaningful thing is the content of the painting. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival takes Bianjing Bianhe area as a typical example, focusing on depicting the humanistic customs and people's livelihood and folk customs there, and fully showing the daily life of the people in the Northern Song Dynasty at that time. There are flowers, medicines, gadgets, food, carpenters, pawn shops and so on. In the river, there are also many cruise ships. We can see that there are rich dignitaries wandering in the streets and poor farmers struggling to survive in the painting.

The scene shown in this painting is the tip of the iceberg of social life at that time, and it is also a microcosm. Later generations of historical researchers can get a glimpse of many historical facts at that time from this painting, and can also prove that the commerce and handicrafts in the Northern Song Dynasty were indeed very developed, and people's lives were relatively peaceful and happy. Compared with before, people's life in Northern Song Dynasty is more entertaining. It is not only a painting, but also a comprehensive historical research material, which reflects the society at that time from many aspects such as politics and economy.