What season is depicted in The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival?
The people in the riverside picture on Qingming Festival are wearing thin clothes and light hats, and the trees have also grown green leaves and new buds. There are also some items in the painting that mark spring, such as wicker, straw hat, peach blossom, vegetables and so on. Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the traditional twenty-four solar terms in China, usually around April 5th in Gregorian calendar, and it is also the watershed of spring in China. At this time, people have begun to prepare for farming activities such as spring ploughing and reclamation.
With exquisite brushwork and superb painting skills, The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival depicts the social life and urban scenes in this period, including lively markets, official yachts, commercial activities in outdoor shops, floating artists and pedestrians, and even many vivid and emotional details such as dogs, mice and ants.
Author of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival:
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival was written by Zhang Zeduan, an ancient painter in China. Zhang Zeduan was a court painter in Song Dynasty. He was born in 1085 and died in 1 145. He is the grandson of Li Yuan, a scholar in the third year of Yongxi (1009). His father, Zhang, also served in the imperial court and passed on certain painting skills in the family. Zhang Zeduan is good at painting figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, especially urban scenery.
The Origin of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival;
According to historical records, Zhang Zeduan traveled to many places, especially Kaifeng City, Henan Province, in order to create The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. During his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, he drew a lot of sketches and sketches, sketched out the street customs at that time, and then went back to his study to organize and create this masterpiece in the history of modern art.
The Value of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a part of chinese heritage, which has high preservation and inheritance value. After many twists and turns, this painting has been repaired and renovated many times, and it has been well preserved. It has been studied so far and is one of the important symbols of China history and culture.