Ten famous painting in China 3

Northern Song Zhang Zeduan "Riverside"

Collections of the Palace Museum in Beijing. Color on silk, 24.8 cm wide, 528.7 cm long, the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan survive in the world only to see a boutique.
"Painting" picture, the Northern Song Dynasty genre painting works. Masterpieces, a national treasure. "Painting" is one of the most famous works of Chinese painting history, not only the superb artistic level, but also around it handed down many interesting stories. This painting depicts the prosperity of the Bianjing Tomb Sweeping Festival, is Bianjing when prosperity witness, and also the Northern Song Dynasty portrayal of the city's economic situation. This picture, we understand that the urban landscape of the Northern Song Dynasty and people from all walks of life. "Painting" has a very high historical value.
"Painting" exquisite meticulous records of the Northern Song Dynasty last years, the suburbs of the the Huizong era capital Bianjing (now Kaifeng) and the city near the river on both sides of buildings and people's livelihood. The figure depicts the Ching Ming Festival, the Northern Song Dynasty capital of Kaifeng, and near the river on both sides of the downtown scene and natural beauty. Work to scroll the form of cavalier perspective mapping method, the complexity of the scene into a unified and rich picture of change, the people portrayed over 500 different clothing, different look during interspersed with a variety of activities, focusing on dramatic composition density has caused, focusing on the changes of rhythm and rhyme, the words are clever tricks. The whole map is divided into three paragraphs.
The first paragraph, the spring of Bianjing Country:
In the woodland mist, in the shade of several huts, Caoqiao, water, old trees, boat. Two porters to catch a five pack of carbon donkey, came to the city. A Willows, branches just glow green, people feel the chill, they are born in spring. On the road a sedan chair, sat a woman. Decorated with willow hybrid flowers jiaoding sedan followed by the riding, Tiaodan return from the suburbs of Beijing outing grave. Description of the environment and people, point out the specific times and customs of the Tomb Sweeping Festival, launched a prelude for the whole painting.
The middle of the busy pier near the river:
Near the river is the Northern Song Dynasty national water transport hub and commercial traffic arteries, from the picture you can see the densely populated Rocky gathered people to rest in the teahouse, a fortune teller, meal Fanpu. Royal paper horse shop ", and" is a grave to sell sacrifice, river vessels between end to end, or trackers, stretch, or the boatman rowed, some loaded with goods, upstream, and some shore parked, is nervous discharge. Across near the river is a large-scale wooden arch bridge, its compact structure, the form of beautiful. Like a Sexy Lingerie rainbow, named Hongqiao. There are a ship pending across the bridge. Boatmen useful bamboo stays; useful Changgan hook bridge; useful hemp rope hanging on the ship; also several people busy to lay down the mast, so that the passage of vessels. O boat people are pointing to like loud yelling. Outboard boat busy this purpose boat bridge. Bridge, pinched the the Shentou brain tense scene to ship. Here is the famous Hongqiao terminal area, a busy, bustling, literally and figuratively, is the meeting point of a water and land transportation.
Posterior segment of the busy urban streets:
Tall tower house row upon row of both sides of the tea house, wine shop, foot shop, butcher shop, temples, public shrine and so on. Grade silk, jewelry, spices, incense paper horse's store specializes Additionally, there are the medical clinic, cart repair, fortune teller fortune-telling, shaving plastic surgery, all walks of life, everything, the store door the first tie "color floor Huan door, hanging the City move the banner to solicit business downtown pedestrians, crowds, stream, business merchants, see the gentry of the street, riding the officials, hawkers, ride chair all dependents itinerant monks who are charged with his backpack and some other place tourists asking for directions, streets children heard of the book, the wealthy children of binge drinking in the restaurant, the edge of the town begging disabled elderly, young and old, the segment of society, part of everyday , nothing is prepared. Means of transport: a chair, camels, cattle, carriages, rickshaws, Pacific cars, flat trucks, all kinds of everything evil. Painted a color to draw the shape to show in front of people.
A total of more than five meters long picture, draw more than five hundred and fifty colored people, cattle, horses, mules, donkeys and other livestock, sixty, car, bridge 20 vehicles, more than 20 of the size of the vessel vessels. Houses, bridges, towers, and also have their own characteristics, reflecting the architectural characteristics of the Song Dynasty. Zhang Zeduan "painting" is a description of the Northern Song Dynasty Bianjing City corner of the realist genre painting, with a high historical value and artistic level.