Custom Paintings Created by Northern Song Painter Zhang Zeduan

The custom painting created by Northern Song painter Zhang Zeduan is Qingming Shanghe Tu.

Qingming Shanghe Tu (清明上河图), one of the ten most famous heirloom paintings in China. For the Northern Song Dynasty custom paintings, the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan only seen in the survival of the fine works, belongs to the national treasures of cultural relics, is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

This is unique in China and even in the history of world painting. In more than five meters long scroll, *** painted a huge number of people of all colors, cattle, mules, donkeys and other livestock, cars, sedan chairs, large and small boats, houses, bridges, towers, etc. each with their own characteristics, reflecting the characteristics of the Song Dynasty architecture. It has high historical and artistic value.

Expanded Information:

From the Qingming Riverside Drawing, you can see several very distinctive artistic Characteristics: the painting with both work and writing, color and elegant, different from the general boundary painting, that is, the so-called "other family number".

The composition adopts the bird's-eye view panorama method, which realistically and centrally depicts the typical area in the southeast corner of Bianjing at that time. The author uses the traditional hand scroll form and adopts the "scattered perspective method" to organize the picture. The picture is long but not redundant, busy but not chaotic, tight and compact, as if completed in a single breath.

Baidu Encyclopedia - "Along the River During the Qingming Festival"