The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is now in the Forbidden City in Beijing, which is a world-class treasure. This painting shows the life of the people in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it can be called a living fossil of the common customs in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhang Zeduan has a high artistic generalization, which makes The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival reach a high artistic level. However, it was suggested that the Riverside Scene at Qingming actually implied the military secrets of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Although Song Huizong Zhao Ji was not a great emperor, he was an outstanding painter and calligrapher in art. Because of his advocacy, the Hanlin Academy set up a "Picture Academy". Zhang Zeduan, a native of Zhucheng, Shandong Province, was able to get close to the royal family and display his painting talent. After he finished the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, Emperor Zhao Ji, the first connoisseur and collector of this work, was so happy that he wrote the words "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" with his unique "thin gold body" and stamped it with the small seal of Shuanglong.
The Bianliang City in the Hui-Qin era has already taken shape as an international metropolis, with millions of registered households, numerous shops, goulan and other entertainment places everywhere, and even a bustling night market. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival reproduces the land and water transportation and daily life of the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. According to statistics, there are 1643 characters and 28 animals in the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. The whole picture of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival can be divided into three paragraphs. In the order of development, the scenery on the outskirts of Bianjing is the first, followed by the busy scenes on both sides of the bridge and Bianhe River. The latter part depicts the street view of Bianjing City.
Every famous painting has a hidden mystery. It seems that there are two kinds of common animals, horses and sheep, missing from The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. Horses are often replaced by donkeys and oxen. Why is this? It turned out that horses and sheep were involved in the "state secrets" of the Northern Song Dynasty.
the northern song dynasty was a typical country where the people were rich and poor, especially the literati emperor Zhao Kuangyin, who laid the basic national policy of valuing literature over martial arts as soon as the country was founded. The nomadic people in the north have long coveted the Central Plains, so the Zhao and Song Dynasties had to step up the control of war preparation materials. Horses and sheep are among them. Horses are indispensable means of transportation; Sheepskin should be made into tents and uniforms. Huang Renyu wrote in the Great History of China: "Liao History makes it very clear that horses and sheep are not allowed to leave the country when they exchange markets with Song Dynasty. In the same book, it is also said that it is very important not to lose the source of horses when Liao and Jin fought in a decisive battle. This ban on horses going south can also be seen from Zhang Zeduan's "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival": In the picture, the carts in Kaifeng are all dragged by cattle and buffaloes, which shows that the shortage of horses is urgent. Horses can also breed in Central China, but limited by the local agricultural economy, its cost is extremely difficult to maintain, and the horses bred in precision farming areas are generally inferior. "
Unexpectedly, Zhang Zeduan's realistic painting style revealed the military secrets of the Northern Song Dynasty. Hong Kong scholars discover a major secret of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival
Zeng Decheng, secretary of the Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, wrote on the 7th that whether the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a complete book or has been cut still cannot be satisfactorily answered. However, the "Zhang Zeduan Code" unintentionally discovered by Stuart Yuan Jie, curator of the Hong Kong Museum of Art three years ago seems to prove that this long scroll is a complete book and has not been cut.
The electronic dynamic version of the Shanghai World Expo "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" will be exhibited in Hong Kong soon, which has aroused great interest of Hong Kong people in this "national treasure" and it is hard to get a ticket. In the online article entitled "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" and "Code", Zeng Decheng said that during the three-week exhibition, it is estimated that nearly one million Hong Kong citizens will go to see this precious exhibit borrowed from the China Pavilion of the World Expo for the first time.
Zeng Decheng said that the famous painting "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" has been circulating between the imperial courts and officials and people for 9 years, and was finally collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing. In this tortuous process, with more than 3 copies appearing, there are many mysteries surrounding this famous painting. One of them is, is it the complete original of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival?
Zeng Decheng wrote that this question was first raised by Li Dongyang, a Ming Dynasty man. He suggested in the postscript after the painting that the original work should be preceded by the inscription "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" written by Song Huizong in his thin gold calligraphy, and there should also be a picture depicting the landscape in the outer suburbs. Later, many people felt that the end of the long scroll was abrupt. Zheng Zhenduo, the former director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, also wrote that the scene of the picture can be extended to Jinming Pool. That is to say, the picture may be cut before or after.
In 27, the original Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival was exhibited in Hong Kong Museum of Art from the Forbidden City, setting a record for the number of visitors in the museum. Zeng Decheng said that according to Stuart Yuan Jie, curator of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, when the original Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival came to Hong Kong for exhibition three years ago, they found a "secret" in the painting, or it could be called the "code" of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. It provides a possible answer to the above mystery.
Zeng Decheng said that when the original "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" comes to the Hong Kong Museum of Art for exhibition, the Museum of Art will make a glass counter for it. The original picture of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is 5.28 meters long, and with the mounting of the head and tail, the counter is much longer. To this end, the Hong Kong Museum of Art has specially customized two pieces of glass from Britain, each of which is 6 meters long, so the counter is 12 meters long and the two pieces of glass are merged in the middle.
the counter is finished, and the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is put in. In order to protect the picture, the lighting intensity of the art museum is strictly arranged to minimize the glare. When preparing for the exhibition, the lights were dim and nothing unusual was found.
Zeng Decheng said that when it was officially opened, the lights were turned brighter, and Stuart Yuan Jie found an interesting phenomenon: the joint between two pieces of glass in the middle of the counter left a shadow line on the picture of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, and the line fell right in the center of this famous painting, and this center point happened to be the center of gravity of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival-the top of Hongqiao Bridge.
Zeng Decheng said that the scene around Hongqiao was the most touching scene of the bustling Bianjing in the painting "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", which took the painter the most thought, whether under the bridge or on the river bank. This picture is right in the center of the scroll, which seems to be no coincidence, but Zhang Zeduan's careful arrangement of this scroll with hundreds of characters and countless scenes.
Zeng Decheng believes that this seems to be a "password" to infer that the long scroll has not been cut, unless the cutter deliberately keeps the Hongqiao scene in the original center.
The Expo version of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival will be exhibited at Asia International Expo Hall in Hong Kong from November 9 to 29. The three-week exhibition * * * provided 968, tickets. Among them, 768, tickets sold in Hong Kong twice were sold out in a short time.
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is one of the most famous paintings handed down from ancient times in China, and it is a national treasure. Zhang Zeduan, in the form of long scrolls, incorporated the complicated scenery into a unified and varied picture scroll, in which more than 8 figures, boats, houses, cars, sedan chairs and trees were all lifelike, interspersed with various activities and plots, vividly recording the daily social life and customs of Bianliang City in the Northern Song Dynasty.