The perfect rich man in the city

From"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" we can see several very distinctive artistic features: this painting is written with both pen and brush, and the colors are elegant. It is different from ordinary boundary paintings, which is the so-called"different style". The composition of"Number of Families" adopts a bird's-eye view panoramic method, which realistically and concisely depicts the typical area in the southeast corner of Bianjing at that time. The author uses the traditional hand scroll form and adopts"scattered perspective" to organize the picture. The picture is long but not redundant, complex but not chaotic, tight and compact, as if it were completed in one go.

The scenery captured in the painting ranges from quiet fields, vast rivers, and towering city walls; to figures as small as people in boats and carriages, goods displayed on vendors, and words on market posters, all without missing a beat. Various plots are interspersed in the picture, which are well organized and interesting at the same time.

The content is rich and depicts many things. In terms of expression technique,"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" uses the method of constantly moving the point of view, that is, the"scattered point perspective method" to capture the desired scene. The vast wilderness, the vast river, the towering city walls, the rivets on the boats, the small commodities on the vendors, and the words on the market posters are all harmoniously organized into a unified whole. In the painting, there are officials, farmers, merchants, Doctors, divination, monks, Taoists, minor officials, women, children, pole masters, cable pullers and other people as well as livestock such as donkeys, cattle, camels and so on. There are scenes such as going to the market, buying and selling, hanging out, drinking, gathering, pushing boats, pulling carts, riding in sedan chairs, and riding horses. The streets and alleys in the painting are lined with shops, hotels, teahouses, snack shops, etc., as well as towers, river ports, bridges, cargo ships, government residences and thatched cottages.

There are different opinions about the number of people in"Along the River During the Qingming Festival". The most common ones are more than 500 people, 815 people, and 1,695 people. In addition, there are more than 60 various livestock, more than 20 wooden boats, and 30 houses and pavilions. There are many buildings, and there are more than 20 pieces of carts and sedans. Various opinions are relatively consistent.

Such rich and colorful content is rarely seen in ancient paintings of all ages. Various characters engage in various activities, not only with different clothes, but also with different expressions and temperaments, and various activities are interspersed with them. They are full of dramatic plot conflicts, which leave the viewer with endless aftertaste.

The structure is rigorous, complex but not chaotic, long but not redundant, and the paragraphs are clear. What is valuable is that such rich and colorful content has a prominent main body, echoes from beginning to end, and the whole volume is integrated. Every character, scene, and detail in the painting is arranged in a reasonable manner, and the relationship between density, complexity, movement, stillness, gathering and dispersion, etc., is handled just right, so that it is complex but not complicated, and numerous but not chaotic. It fully demonstrates the painter's profound insight into social life and his high ability to organize and control pictures. Judging from the content, this painting belongs to genre painting and also has the characteristics of genre painting.

In terms of technique, grandeur and finesse are combined. He is good at choosing things, scenes and plots that are both vivid, poetic and essential to express. Describe every character and prop through meticulous observation of life. Everyone has their own identity, their own demeanor, and their own plot.

The structures of houses, bridges and other buildings are rigorous and meticulous. The carriages, horses, and boats are all present, but they are kept small without losing their overall appearance and their power. For example, the objects on the ship, the riveting methods, and even the knotting and fastening of ropes are all explained clearly, which is breathtaking.

For more than a thousand years, this painting has been famous, favored and imitated by many. There are still many copies and forgeries in the hands of public and private collectors all over the country. According to some statistics, there are more than 30 copies of"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" in existence, including more than 10 copies in mainland China, 9 in Baodao, 5 in the United States, 4 in France, and 4 in England. and Fusang each have one copy. The National Palace Museum in Taipei alone has 7 copies.

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The version collected by the Palace Museum is called the Forbidden City version.

Everyone says what they say is true

《"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is also so famous that there have been many versions throughout the ages.

I won’t talk about Zhang Zeduan’s version, because Zhang Zeduan is the real author of"Along the River During the Qingming Festival".

The second is"Qiu Ying Ben", who is one of the"Four Masters of Wu Clan". Qiu Ying, a famous painter in the Ming Dynasty, based on the theme of"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" and the composition structure of the"Song Version", with Suzhou City in the Ming Dynasty as the background, he used Green and green reset the color method to create a new picture, the style is very different from the Song Dynasty version

""Qiu Ben" is also the originator of all imitations in later generations. It is recorded in the Ming Dynasty that at that time, various imitations based on this were emerging in endlessly, and for a time they became high-end gifts given to each other by wealthy families.

They were called Qiu Ying imitations. They are now in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei..Many panoramic pictures of the Qingming River Scene circulating on the Internet are actually this version of the work. The third version was created in the first year of Qianlong by five painters from the Qing Palace Painting Academy: Chen Mei, Sun Hu, Jin Kun, Dai Hong, Cheng Zhidao collaborated on the painting. It can be said that it is based on the imitations of each dynasty, integrating the works of each master, plus the special customs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as outings, performances and other entertainment activities, thus adding many rich plots. Such as dramas, monkey shows, stunts, arenas, etc., there are many things painted. Although the ancient system of the Song Dynasty has been lost, it is an indispensable material for studying social customs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the same time, due to the influence of Western painting style, street houses, All paintings are based on the principle of perspective, and there are Western-style buildings listed in it.

The colors in this volume are bright and bright, the brushwork is sophisticated and meticulous, and the bridges, houses, and figures are all delicate and rigorous. It is an extremely refined work among academy paintings. This version is now available in Taipei National Palace Museum.

Known as the Qing Yuan version of Along the River During the Qingming Festival._To read the ununderlined version of the novel, please download Fei Lu Novel