☆♡ Along the River During the Qingming Festival ※ The case has scratches and peeling due to the long storage period. ○ The picture is beautiful. Description Along the River During the Qingming Festival (Qingming Shanghe Tu) is a handscroll painting depicting the bustling prosperity of the capital city of Kaifeng during the Northern Song Dynasty in China. The original is housed in the Palace Museum in Beijing, but many similar works have been passed down. Overview It is believed to be the work of Zhang Zeduan, a Hanlin Daizhao (painter) and a famous painter of the late Northern Song Dynasty. It depicts the people of the capital, Tokyo Kaifeng Prefecture, enjoying themselves and prospering during the Qingming Festival. The season is in the height of spring, and along with its value as a detailed pictorial depiction, it is also of extremely high documentary value as a cityscape and a depiction of the customs of the time. Since the Ming Dynasty, many handscrolls with the same title have been painted, inheriting the subject matter and composition of this painting. Konomu Furuhara, who studies Chinese art, states that there are 41 such paintings worldwide [1], and the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival: Precious Collection Edition" compiled with the participation of many people from the Palace Museum in Beijing lists 50 [2]. Broadly speaking, they are divided into three categories: the first is the lineage of Zhang Zeduan's original work, the second is the one depicting the scenery of Suzhou, said to have been painted by the Ming Dynasty painter Qiu Ying, and the third is the "Qing Court Version" which was jointly produced by five court painters of the Qing Dynasty in December 1736 and presented to the Qianlong Emperor, and is currently housed in the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. (Search Address) https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Along_the_River_During_the_Qingming_Festival_(Qing_Court_Version).jpg