What is the landscape painting inscribed by Song Huizong?

The landscape painting inscribed by Song Huizong is You Chuntu painted by Zhan Ziqian, which is the oldest landscape scroll painting found in China. This painting is now in the Palace Museum. It is 43 cm long and 80.5 cm wide. Silk replicas are turquoise. Song Huizong and Evonne wrote "Zhan Ziqian and You Chuntu" in fine gold before the volume. The brushwork is vigorous and free and easy, which means nature, just like the number one scroll hand-picked by the emperor, which plays the role of finishing touch.

This painting depicts the spring outing of people in February when peaches and apricots are in full bloom in the south of the Yangtze River. The whole painting is dominated by natural scenery, with towering green hills, endless rivers, beautiful flowers, lakes and mountains, sparkling waves, figures and Buddhist temples dotted among them. The brushwork is fine and smooth, and the coloring pen is quite antique. The mountains and trees are empty, but the lines have changed greatly. Rendering with strong colors sets off the vitality of beautiful rivers and mountains.

The technique of this painting is characterized by line painting, bright colors, and people directly dye it with pink. The characters drawn are all outlined with thin lines, as thin as hair. Although the figures have not changed much, they are full of vitality. The scenery of the painting is nuanced and the picture appears soft and smooth. And the painted leaves, even rough and scattered, seem shapeless, but they look quaint and ancient.

From the perspective of color application, the landscape in the whole painting is mainly green and pink, which makes the whole painting look clumsy, rich and quaint, and fully shows the style of "green and heavy color, meticulous and neat" in the color setting of landscape in early China. Such a landscape painting with heavy historical value and exquisite artistic value is naturally sought after and loved by future generations.