Along the River During the Qingming Festival

Along the River During the Qingming Festival

Movable Cultural Heritage

The Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a famous Chinese painting by the Northern Song painter Zhang Zeduan, the scroll is about 24.8cm high and 528cm long, depicting the bustling scene inside and outside the city gates and on both sides of the Bian River, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. There are about 814 people, 60 livestock, 28 boats, 30 houses, 20 carts, 8 sedan chairs and 170 trees in the painting, and the activities of the characters are lifelike and episodic, making it a world-famous realist painting of customs. And Along the River During the Qingming Festival is an outstanding work of ancient Chinese genre painting. Painted on silk in a long scroll, it uses a scattered perspective composition to vividly record the urban landscape of Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan Province), the capital of China during the Northern Song Dynasty, and the living conditions of people from all walks of life at that time and is a testimony to the prosperity of Bianjing at that time.

Zhang Zheduan

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English

Physical Object

537

10/05/2022

cm x cm x cm

current,39.91781523864264,116.3904900742346;

TEXT

979

silk