Walking into Kaifeng, you can see that there are imitations of "Qingming Riverside Map" sold everywhere on both sides of the street, ranging from dozens to hundreds, and thousands to tens of thousands, attracting a large number of people to stop and appreciate, you must know that you can't see the real thing, and it's good to buy a good imitation to see Ha, I can't help but let An Xiangfei buy me a more expensive one, and I can't help but be a little happy.

This is unique in the history of Chinese and even world painting. In the scroll, which is more than five meters long, a total of 814 figures of various colors are depicted, 73 cattle and mules, donkeys and other livestock, more than 20 cars and sedan chairs, and 29 large and small boats. Houses, bridges, city towers, etc., have their own characteristics, reflecting the characteristics of Song Dynasty architecture. It has high historical and artistic value.

It was a folk custom at that time to go to the river during the Qingming Festival, like today's festival gatherings, where people gather to participate in commercial activities. The whole map is roughly divided into three parts: Chunguang in the suburbs of Bianjing, Bianhe scene, and market in the city.

Gently open this map, see a camel team on the road next to the creek, far from the northeast to Bianjing City, five donkeys are burdened, the groom in front of the leading livestock to the bridge at the bend, the back of the pack man with a whip to drive the pack team forward, the destination is about to arrive, from the look of the pack worker skillfully driving the pack team to know that they are walking for many years old horse gang.

A small sampan is tied to the tree next to the bridge, and several small farm yards are scattered and orderly among the trees, and there are four crow's nests on the branches of several tall trees, which look no different from the way crows build their nests and their heights. There are several stone mills in the threshing field, which are used for threshing during the autumn harvest, and are still idle there. There are a few sheep in the sheepfold, and there seems to be a chicken and duck pen next to the sheepfold, as if a large group of chickens and ducks are raised in the pen, a good picture of a quiet countryside, and you have to marvel at the developed agriculture and breeding industry in the Song Dynasty more than a thousand years ago.

The picture that I have seen again is the junction of agriculture and commerce, the upper right is a team of relatives and wives, slowly turning from the north, the groom behind the groom riding a jujube red horse, behind the horse is a porter who carries the bride's dowry, a person in front of the horse holds the bride's dressing box, and the front of a sedan chair should be the bride sitting, because the sedan chair is decorated with various plants and flowers, which can be described as a "sedan chair"; The word sedan chair is the means of transportation that the bride takes when she gets married, which comes from this folk custom. Behind the sedan chair, a porter carries a load of fish and meat, indicating that the woman's mother's family wishes her husband to be rich and rich.

From the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, tomb sweeping began to prevail during the Qingming Festival. Therefore, based on the word Qingming alone, it is inappropriate to say that this team is returning from sweeping the tomb, and it should be a team of relatives and wives to take care of their wives.

Two cows were raised in a farmhouse next to the teahouse, and although such an earth-shattering event had happened nearby, the two cows were indifferent, and they still ruminated leisurely, and the seedlings in the field in the distance were thriving, and the farmers were watering and fertilizing the seedlings.

On the south side, the family of two went on a journey, employing two cattle and a packer, and a porter carrying the goods they needed to travel slowly to the southeast.

A hotel is directly opposite the street in front of the teahouse, because it does not operate early, so it is late to hold up the banner to solicit customers, the hotel is open in the bulk freight terminal, the business is naturally very prosperous, but the guests are busy with business, not yet the time to eat and drink, you see the owner of the wharf is counting the goods to be sent somewhere, the dock workers are stacking up the goods to be transported, ready to arrange loading and unloading in a timely manner according to the distance of the delivery location, the so-called is the first ship and then the slope. Another ship was also unloading, and in the gaps between the branches and leaves of this 200-year-old tree, you could see the thick sail mast and ropes, which should also be a large ship with a displacement of about 60 or 70 tons. In the middle of the street between the hotel and the teahouse, there is a gentleman who is calling a fortune teller, who may ask him to calculate something, whether it is marriage, family or business. Looking into the street, the people of a bakery and a burden-carrying trader were talking about things, as if they could hear them talking, what to order tomorrow such things as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and when to settle the bill, and then there were several shops, and another avenue stretched into the distance and pedestrians, mules and horses walking.

In the past, a few shops are the main road Bianliang Avenue, the main road on both sides of the traffic is full of shops, all around this feng shui treasure of the cargo wharf and freight stack, this freight stack is very advantageous, the surrounding streets extend in all directions, the south side is close to the deep-water harbor, there are several ships moored in the harbor in turn to load and unload goods, a ship by the dock is unloading, several dock workers are carrying sacks like containing grain and the like off the ship, someone in the cabin is turning over the warehouse and loading the goods, It seemed that the sound of labor trumpets could be heard coming from the ship's hold to put sacks of goods on their shoulders. Close to the dock of the warehouse moored to unload and load the ship, waiting for the ship boss to get on the ship after eating and sailing, the ship boss in front of the warehouse just finished the account is about to get on the ship, halfway happened to meet an acquaintance, the heart of the worry of the boat to hurry, but can not wait for the acquaintance or friend, in the eagerness with the shabby homely, and finally hug the fist salute goodbye. At this time, the footsteps had already turned, and the appearance of rushing to the ship was already transcendent.

A cargo ship is swimming upriver in the main channel of the dock, and the sailors on the right chord of the ship are watching closely to avoid colliding with the moored ships. It is very important to walk safely in the river, the bow of the ship is moored at the pier, Xinzuo has come out of a sailor, always pay attention to the movement of the boat, ready to eliminate the collision between the ships, the moving ship seems to be about to dock, the ship's "head fiber" (the first slender man in the fiber pulling team) has turned around to beckon the partners to collect the fiber. Looking further upstream, there are eight oarmen on a boat, which shows that the speed of the water is very fast, and a helmsman closely watches the water and the boat in the direction of progress. A passenger ship in front is busy docking, this is the passenger dock, there are more than 20 people on the passenger ship are working intensively, several boatmen on the top of the ship are retracting the sails and releasing the mast, some boatmen are receiving the cable thrown from the rainbow bridge, ready to tow the passenger ship to the dock, and then tied to the bolt ship pillar on the shore to increase the stability of the passenger ship, the sailor on the left chord uses the boat artemisia to support the ship to the pier to increase the power to approach the pier, there are two sailors in the bow of the boat to the right on the one hand, while turning their heads to pay attention to the dock, In order to align the passenger ship with the pier to adjust the strength of the boat, another boatman waved forward with his right hand to direct the boatman at the pier to respond, and it seemed that he should be the boatswain of the passenger ship. The passenger ship is wide and stable, the shipwright is quite skilled in performing their duties, the action is very coordinated, it seems to be a group of very high-quality shipwrights, the warehouse body and the warehouse surface are closed and blocked, and there is a warehouse door to facilitate the entry and exit of guests, the ship is not stable before the warehouse door is never opened, the safety measures are quite rigorous, it can be concluded that it is a long-distance passenger ship with good safety performance.

This book is derived from reading books