Along the River During the Qingming
Festival is a panoramic painting by Song
Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145). It captures the daily life of people
from the Song period at the capital, Bianjing, today's Kaifeng , portrays the
festive spirit and worldly commotion at the Qingming Festival. It is often
considered to be the most renowned work among all Chinese paintings,and it has
been called " China 's Mona Lisa."
The picture is 5.28-meter long, can be
divided into three parts, but the countryside and the densely populated city are
the two main sections, with the river meandering through the entire
length.
The right section is the rural area of the
city. There are crop fields and unhurried rural folk—predominately farmers,
goatherds, and pig herders—in bucolic scenery. A country path broadens into a
road and joins with the city road.
The intermediate section is about the busy
quays. There are businesses of all kinds, selling wine, grain, secondhand goods,
cookware, bows and arrows, lanterns, musical instruments, gold and silver,
ornaments, dyed fabrics, paintings, medicine, needles, and artifacts, as well as
many restaurants. The vendors extend all along the great bridge, called the
Rainbow Bridge (虹桥 Hong Qiao) or, more
rarely, the Shangtu Bridge (上土桥).
The left section is the urban area, which eventually
leads into the city proper with the gates. Many economic activities, such as
people loading cargoes onto the boat, shops, and even a tax office, can be seen
in this area. People from all walks of life are depicted: peddlers, jugglers,
actors, paupers begging, monks asking for alms, fortune tellers and seers,
doctors, innkeepers, teachers, millers, metalworkers, carpenters, masons, and
official scholars from all ranks.
There are 814 humans, 28 boats, 60 animals,
30 buildings, 20 vehicles, nine sedan chairs, and 170 trees in the picture, and
the painting is known for its accurate images of all these variety things. Every
people who catch a glimpse of the picture will be filled with deep
esteem.
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