"Qingming Riverside" was painted by Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Qingming Shanghe Tu, one of the ten most famous heirloom paintings in China. For the Northern Song Dynasty custom painting, 24.8 cm wide, 528 cm long, silk with color. The scroll is the only surviving masterpiece of Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, and is a national treasure, now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The work, in the form of a long scroll, adopts the scattered perspective composition method and vividly records the appearance of Chinese city life in the twelfth century, which is unique in China and even in the history of world painting.
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The Qingming Shanghe Tu" depicts the condition of the capital city of Tokyo during the Northern Song Dynasty, mainly the natural scenery and prosperity of Bianjing as well as both sides of the Bian River. In the form of a long scroll, the author adopts the compositional method of scattered perspective to incorporate the complicated scenery into a unified and varied picture.
The picture painted in the city outlines of the bridge houses and huts of the near and far, grass and trees, cattle, donkeys and camels of the size of the out, as well as the residents of the walkers, boats and vehicles to and from the successive, are all curved to the end of its rituals and can be counted, the whole pair of scenes, extremely rich in content, the whole painting grand, rigorous composition, meticulous brushwork, fully demonstrated the painter's insight into the life of the community and the ability of superb artistic expression.
People's Daily Online - Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Riverside Drawing"
18 horrifying secrets of Qingming Riverside Drawing
Depicting a shocking case, the prelude to the "nonnyin Palace Mutiny" during the Jiajing period, when all the courtesans strangled and killed the emperor, was hidden in it. The festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, when Duke Wen of Jin commemorated a loyal servant, Jie Zi Tui, who cut his flesh to serve the king without seeking fame or fortune, and wished that his lord would always keep Qingming before he died. The subject of "Qingming Shanghe Tu" is not only a depiction of the city life, but also contains a remembrance of the lives that have been lost, stimulates introspection and self-awareness, and also implies a reflection on the issue of social domination. The relevant inscriptions and recordings show that Qiu Ying had never seen Zhang Zeduan's original work, and that he did not copy the original but simulated the model, which is similar to Zhang Zeduan's version in the general structure of the countryside and city sections. The most controversial part is the last part, some people speculate that Zhang Zeduan's version had been cut off the content of the palace and garden such as the Jinming Pond competition, and some people think that Zhang Zeduan's version did not paint this part. But almost all of Qiu Ying's versions have painted the palace part, and this kind of conscious expansion of the classical subject matter to strengthen the righteousness of the technique is in fact one of the distinctive features of Qiu Ying's works. So, the mysterious "Xin Chou this" "Qiu Ying mold Qingming Shanghe Tu" of the palace part of the hidden what shocking story?
In accordance with the recognition of this painting took three years, April 30, 1542 A.D. painters began to pen, just six months later, November 27th late at night, Beijing's Forbidden City, the palace maid strangled attempted murder of the emperor's serious incidents. Historical records, due to the Emperor Jiajing manic violence abuse of courtesans, superstitious Taoist lewdness and indulgence, perished many people. Palace maids Yang Jinying and Ning Concubine were subjected to inhuman treatment from the Emperor and Empress Fang, masterminded the assassination, the incident occurred when the Emperor slept in the bedchamber of Duanfei, the palace maids took advantage of Duanfei bathing time to try to strangle the Emperor, the process did not go smoothly, one of the small palace maids ran away to inform, Empress Fang and others arrived in time to save the Emperor, Empress Fang caned Ning Concubine and did not know Duanfei, the court maids were all executed by the lynchings. Afterwards, Emperor Jiajing announced to the world, not only did not review their own faults, but instead of their own escape attributed to "heaven and earth, God and man Yin blessing silent phase". The case was recorded in many details in the Ming Dynasty, Shen Defu's "Wanli Yowu" and Zhang He's "Zuzhai", then the head of the Ministry of Justice.
Before the painter started his brush, it was the celebration of the completion of the Imperial Edict of Dagaoxuan Hall, and the Taoist-obsessed Jiajing Emperor was preoccupied with this matter all day long, so among the harem, the painter didn't paint a man in the true sense of the word. Across the trees, rocks and bridges, the two towering palaces face each other. The right side of the palace on the ground floor of the courtyard, concubines chatting in twos and threes, and three imperial sons. On the top floor, surrounded by many court musicians, sitting down to enjoy the dance music is the Empress Fang, the distance between the two palaces in line with the history of
However, the painter started the brush when this shocking thing did not happen, so the painter's initial motivation is what?
The Jiajing emperor was originally a feudal lord, but he insisted on filial piety on top of the ritual, to his own father and welcome the emperor into the palace, was adhering to the ancestral system of the civil ministers resolute opposition to the complexity of the Great Rites of the controversy has become a dark line through the Jiajing dynasty, the power to dominate the ministers to the throne, a large number of civil ministers suffered a blow, loyal and treacherous, good and evil intricate and difficult to understand. There is a theory that the "nonnyin palace mutiny" may have been planned by the failed ministers. It is not a coincidence that almost at the same time as Qiu Ying started to write, Wen Zhengming also wrote Zhuge Liang's "Former Exit Table", which expressed his loyalty to Zhuge Liang. In an environment where the Great Ceremonial Incident triggered heated debates about human nature and loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, and where many friends and family members of the imperial court were caught up in opposing factions, it was inevitable that Xu Wenchan, the son of the great loyalist Xu Wenjing Gong, the resigned and recluse Wen Zhengming, and the knowledgeable Qiu Ying would send their thoughts and concerns in their own way. Painting only a small part of the outbreak of the Imjin palace mutiny, which undoubtedly fulfilled the fears of the scholars, but objectively also provides the painter more exciting content, "the real record of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty", "when the maidservants for a long time for the conspiracy", so the painter cleverly chose the "premeditation So the painter cleverly chose "premeditation" such a record of historical facts but not easy to be found in the plot, carefully captured the current political news.
People are always amazed at the eight-meter-long scroll of more than a thousand visible and vivid characters, dozens of complex and accurate pavilions and dragon boat bridges, bright and pleasant landscapes, birds and flowers do not know that, outside of the exquisite ink and color, the peace and tranquility of the countryside and the prosperous and developed city behind, but the emergence of a crisis so great! Woe, fortune, luck and uncertainty, the uncertainty, not manpower can be argued. After reviewing this volume, can not help but sigh: Qiu Ying is a true scholar! This volume is also simply the history of the Jiajing dynasty documentary. As Jacob Burckhardt pointed out, "It is only through the medium of art that the most secret beliefs and ideas of an age can be transmitted to posterity, and it is only by this means of transmission that they can be most trusted."
How much is the real Qingming Shanghe Tu worth
The real Qingming Shanghe Tu now exists in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and this kind of cultural relics of great historical value is of course not for auction, so the real price of the Qingming Shanghe Tu is not known to the country, and for the country, the Qingming Shanghe Tu is a priceless treasure.
But because the painting's reputation is very illustrious, and the painting style is rarely seen, so since the Song Dynasty, there have been a lot of people copying this painting, sold in the folk are imitations. But good imitations are also very fine, some can reach millions.
And the Ming Dynasty painter Qiu Ying imitation of "Qingming Shanghe Tu" is to reach hundreds of millions of dollars. So it seems that it is not impossible for real paintings to sell for tens of billions of dollars, except that real paintings are certainly not auctioned.
Where is the enlarged view of the 24 dead bodies in Qingming Riverside Painting
It is said that there are 24 dead bodies in this painting, and these bodies are placed on that passenger boat under the bridge.
The whole picture of 824 figures, each with a name, feigned and ambushed in boats, cars and sedans, and restaurants and pavilions. It looks like a peaceful world, but in fact, killing opportunities are everywhere. Open the book, in the peddler's voice, Jin, Liao, Xixia, Goryeo and other countries of spies, assassins have lurked into the painting, 824 characters resurrected one by one, only to wait for the passenger boat across the Rainbow Bridge, together with the prelude to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty empire.
In the center of the screen, on the Bianhe River, a seemingly ordinary passenger boat is about to cross the Rainbow Bridge, and because it is too late to lower the mast, the boat seems to be about to crash into the Rainbow Bridge, the boat is in a mess, the shore is shouting and screaming, and in the midst of the chaos, the thieves flashed, a burst of smoke, and then the smoke dispersed, the passenger boat appeared on the twenty-four corpses, and everyone was dumbstruck.
The secret of the Qingming Riverside painting revolves around the eye of the painting:
The most dramatic "eye of the painting" of the whole painting is the passenger boat in the river, which is the clue buried by the painter Zhang Zeduan, and from this point onwards, you can read the true meaning of the painting. The boat was about to cross the bridge, but did not put down the mast, and it was about to hit, the boat people panicked and put down the mast. This seems to be an oversight, but it is intentional.
It was because of this crisis that hundreds of people on both sides of the bridge gathered their eyes to one place. The boat is a busy lowering the mast, the shore is also a shouting, the shore, the bridge, all the people towards the boat, Bianhe both sides of the river, the left bank to open the food store chapter Qilang, open the guest house of the room Jing, Liufu Liu stone, the right bank of the Wen family tea store dishes in the maiden Lei Zhuniang, the boat guards the Lu bladders, watch the teahouse of the old man Yan, it seems to be held by the same rope, the rope once closed, they are all towards the center of the rainbow bridge to run. Like running to a big thing that has been waiting for a long time.