The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhao Mengfu in Bai Song Dynasty

Zhao Mengfu (f incarnation) was born in Song Xue Road (1254,10/0-0/20 July-1322 July 30), Han nationality, also known as a Taoist in Goulpeau Shuijing Palace, and worked as a Taoist in middle age. Xing Wu, Zhejiang (now Huzhou, Zhejiang) people. Famous calligrapher, painter and poet in the early Yuan Dynasty, his grandson, his grandson, Zhao's grandson; His fathers, Zhao and Chen, served as assistant ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty, and also served as the prefect of Lin 'an and the envoy of western Zhejiang.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down by China. It is a genre painting of the Northern Song Dynasty and the only masterpiece that Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, has ever seen. This is a national treasure, which is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is 25.2 cm wide and 528.7 cm long, and it is in silk color. The works, in the form of long scrolls, vividly record the city appearance of Bianjing in China during the Northern Song Dynasty12nd century and the living conditions of people from all walks of life at that time. It is the witness of Bianjing's prosperity in that year, and it is also a portrayal of the urban economic situation in the Northern Song Dynasty.