The Riverside Map on Qingming Festival, where is it now?

Beijing Palace Museum. Mr. Yang published this picture scroll in The Rise and Fall of National Treasure compiled by Northeast Museum, which immediately attracted great attention from experts and scholars at home and abroad. Mr. Zheng Zhenduo, then director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, handed this picture to Beijing. After further research and identification by experts and scholars, it is confirmed that this picture scroll is a thousand-year-old masterpiece-"Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" and "Treasure of Shiqu 3rd Edition". The rare national treasure lost for many years has finally entered the Palace Museum in Beijing again.

At present, there is no artist's own seal on this picture scroll collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing. According to an inscription by Zhang Zhu of Jin Dynasty in the postscript after the picture, it is confirmed that its author is Zhang Zeduan.

The extended information "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down in China. It is a genre painting of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is the only representative work of Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty. 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. In the form of a long scroll, the work vividly records the city appearance of Tokyo (also known as Bianjing, now Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of China in the Northern Song Dynasty in the12nd century, and the living conditions of people from all walks of life at that time. It is a witness to the prosperity of Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and also a portrayal of the economic situation of the Northern Song Dynasty.

This is unique in the history of painting in China and even in the world. In this five-meter-long picture scroll, * * * depicts a large number of characters, cattle, mules, donkeys and other livestock, cars, sedan chairs, large and small ships, houses, bridges, towers and other features, reflecting the characteristics of architecture in the Song Dynasty. It has high historical value and artistic value. Although the scene of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is lively, it is not a bustling city scene, but a "bustling and dangerous picture" with a sense of urgency. Officers and men are lazy and pay heavy taxes.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival