Grand Canal Theme Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition·Along the River During the Qingming Festival Album
Time: 2024.10.01--2024.11.01 (closed on Mondays)
- 9:00--17:00 (last admission at 16:00)
Location: 2nd floor, Rotunda, Capital Museum
Topic: The Qingming Riverside Scene, which has not been seen in Liaoning Museum for ten years, has arrived in Beijing
Tickets: Free, by reservation
🤳Explanation:🈚
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The Grand Canal themed calligraphy and painting exhibition will last until January 5, 2025. The heavy-color folk painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" by Qiu Ying, loaned by Liaoning Provincial Museum, will only be on display until November 1. The last time it was exhibited was at the "Ten Continents High Meeting·Wumen School of Painting Qiu Ying Special Exhibition" held by Suzhou Museum in November 2015. There are many copies of Qiu Ying's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" in circulation. The one in Liaoning Museum has been circulated in an orderly manner and is recognized by the academic community as Qiu Ying's authentic work.
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The composition was based on Zhang Zeduan's Along the River During the Qingming Festival, which uses heavy green and blue colors to depict the social life of Suzhou City in the Ming Dynasty. There are more than two thousand characters in the painting, and they all have different expressions and are lifelike. It represents the typical style and highest level of the creation of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" in later generations. It is not only a masterpiece of customs that connects the past and the future in the history of ancient Chinese painting, but also a powerful illustration for studying the social life and cultural history of the middle and late Ming Dynasty!
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The whole scroll can be divided into four main sections:
The first paragraph is the scenery of the village 🌄, with endless mountains, beautiful 🏠 pastoral scenes, and the beautiful scenery of shepherds riding cows 🐂 by the river.
The 2️⃣th paragraph is the Rainbow Bridge across the two banks. The boats in the river are shoulder to shoulder, and the two banks are busy. Walking along the river and crossing the Rainbow Bridge, you will see children playing on the grass and citizens gathering on the stage to watch folk performances.
The 3️⃣th paragraph is the city streets. Following the river 💦, you enter the market from outside the city gate. You will see all kinds of people 👫, various shops, and various kinds of carriages and sedans 🛷. The houses are neatly built, and people are bustling on the streets.
The 4️⃣th paragraph is the Jinmingchi Palace👑. The scene ends with magnificent palace buildings and lively dragon boat racing, and is fixed on the magnificent pavilions and palaces in the mountains.
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The entire scroll is complex in content, depicting scenes of the Qingming Festival in the suburbs, the city, and the palace of Suzhou, reflecting the prosperity of Suzhou at that time. Judging from the details in the painting, gold-painted lacquerware, finely mounted poems and paintings, tinware, dyeing workshops, and various copperware are all characteristics of Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty. The brothel, 📚 study, southern goods, bright flowers💐, and female copper needles can all make people feel the charm of Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty🍃
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The technique is based on Zhang Zeduan's expression. Many buildings appear in the scroll, and the painting technique of combining reality and illusion is used to show the multiple levels of the city wall through lines of varying thickness and discontinuity. The bricks and stones on the city wall are displayed in a combination of thick and light ink, further painting the solid and strong Suzhou city wall on paper.