What can prove the integrity of this painting is the layout code left by the author when he drew the Qingming Shanghe map, and named it the "two equal division" password, the "six equal division" password and the "twelve equal division" password.

Old man Ouyang said while showing Wu Tianyuan with his finger, and analyzed: The so-called two-average division password is to divide the painting evenly from the middle, and then you can see that this average division line falls on the top of the arch bridge in the center of the Qingming Shanghe map, and the arch bridge part is the climax of the scene depicted in this painting. ”

"The six-point password is to divide the "Qingming Riverside Map" into six sections on average. The first section is a suburban landscape, the middle section is the scenery along the Bianhe River and the busy Bianhe River wharf, and the second section is a lively downtown streetscape. ”

At the back of the first section of the "suburban scenery" there is a long section of the Bianhe River with grain unloading docks, and at the end of the middle section of the "Bianhe River Scenery" there are blocks. This segmented introduction to the Qingming Shanghe Diagram is just to introduce this great scroll to readers more intuitively? ”

"Now I also look at this picture scroll in three sections, first of all, we can see that the middle of the first section is a willow forest, the forest runs up and down, except for a little open space at the lower end, it is almost impermeable, separating the countryside scenery in the first section and the upcoming street market and the scenery of the Bianhe River, and this kind of curtain wall-like forest has never appeared again in the subsequent picture scrolls."

"The middle part of the middle section is the climactic arch bridge of the whole map, and the middle of the back section happens to be the tall city gate. At this time, the viewer can see that the woods in the middle of the first section, the arch bridge in the middle of the middle section, and the city gate in the middle of the last section are the tallest and most spectacular scenes in the picture. If we divide the three sections into six sections, we can see that the three divisions pass through the center of each of the three sections. ”

"What's even more surprising is that the dividing line falls right on the woods, the middle of the arch bridge and the center of the city gate, which is clearly the intentional layout of Zhang Zeduan when he drew the Qingming Shanghe map, which is also a strong evidence that this painting has survived to this day."

Old man Ouyang said excitedly: "We have also studied many times internally, and we think that since the painter intended to lay out the picture when he drew the Qingming Shanghe map, there would be more layout passwords hidden in it, so he carried out the research of "twelve equal divisions" on the basis of the "six equal divisions", and found the layout passwords that shocked the author even more. ”

"Draw a line in the middle of the six-section map, and divide the Qingming Shanghe map into 12 sections equally. At once, you can see that the median line of the first section of the six-segment diagram passes through the middle of a thatched hut in the suburbs. In the six-segment diagram, near the median line of the second segment, the Bianhe River begins to appear in the diagram. And so on, all of them! ”

Wu Tianyuan nodded in agreement, the Qingming Shanghe picture is a huge scroll with a length of 5.28 meters, and the painter will definitely lay out the picture in advance when drawing such a long scroll, so as to ensure that the picture is not chaotic and the structure is reasonable.

Moreover, it belongs to the long scroll of boundary paintings, and the boundary ruler is used when painting, so the layout and proportional structure of the picture are more demanding. Now, the picture layout password of "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" fully proves that the Riverside Picture at Qingming Festival is complete and has not been broken in the process of circulating for hundreds of years. Because if this painting had been mutilated in the process of circulation, the layout of the painter would have been in chaos. Now the layout is in order, which is a testament to its integrity.

Old Man Ouyang went to the end and concluded: "In addition, the beginning and end of the painting are also good proof that it is not broken. At the beginning of the Qingming Riverside Map, there is a one-centimeter-long blank space, in which there is no scenery except for a few depictions of the ground. This phenomenon never appeared in subsequent scrolls, and such blank spaces indicate the logical beginning of the scrolls. ”

In the final part, the roots of the weeping willows in the north of the road have been connected with the top of the branches in the south of the road, completely blocking the road to the west, which has never been seen in the Qingming Shanghe map. This shows the intention of the painter back then, that is, to signify the end of the scroll. In addition, there are many willow trees painted in the painting, but all of them are dry willows, and this is the only one weeping willow, which indicates the intention of the painter to end this volume. ”

Wu Tianyuan opened his eyes, he has always had his own abilities, and the cultural relics will tell all the inside stories by themselves. After listening to the analysis of professionals today, I am in awe, people rely on years of careful research and sorting out various data to get a more accurate conclusion, and this attitude is worth learning and experiencing.

"Legend has it that in the Xiangguo Temple in Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty, there lived some folk painters who made a living by painting temples, among which there was a young painter who said that he could move the prosperous scene of the capital Tokyo City to the painting, and this young man was Zhang Zeduan from Zhucheng, Shandong."

He lived in the incense kitchen of Xiangguo Temple and devoted himself to painting. One day Song Huizong Zhao Ji under the escort of the royal guards, the mighty drive to Xiangguo Temple to incense, Song Huizong Zhao Ji heard that there was a talented young painter living in Xiangguo Temple, so he ordered Prime Minister Cai Jing to understand the situation. Song Huizong Zhao Ji and Prime Minister Cai Jing not only liked painting, but also were masters of painting. Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty ordered Cai Jing to summon Zhang Zeduan to the Hanlin Painting Academy, and personally asked Zhang Zeduan to paint the prosperous scenes of Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty. ”

"Zhang Zeduan was summoned to the Hanlin Painting Institute in the palace, but he asked not to be locked up in the palace to paint, he asked to paint in a quiet farmhouse, Song Huizong agreed to Zhang Zeduan's request, and ordered Cai Jing to find a quiet farmhouse for Zhang Zeduan in the suburbs of the Tokyo capital in the Northern Song Dynasty.

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong and his son Song Qinzong Zhao Huan were captured by the Jin people to the north, and the Qingming Shanghe map and 6,000 works of art hidden in the Northern Song Dynasty were also plundered by the Jin soldiers. Song Huizong Zhao Ji's eleventh son, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, Hangzhou was proclaimed emperor. ”

In order to let Song Gaozong Zhao Gou not forget the hatred of the country and the family, and resolutely resist Jin, he closed the door and thanked the guests, worked hard, and drew a long scroll of the Qingming Shanghe map, dedicated to Song Gaozong Zhao Gou. Song Gaozong Zhao Gou was different from his father Song Huizong Zhao Ji, he was not interested in painting at all and returned the painting. ”

He unfolded the long scroll, his heart was unsettled, and in a fit of anger, he burned the long scroll of the Qingming Shanghe Diagram that he had worked so hard to draw, but fortunately half of it was snatched out by his family in time. Under the painful blow, Zhang Zeduan soon died of depression. It is impossible to verify whether the story of Zhang Zeduan's two Qingming Shanghe pictures is true, but the people have also begun to circulate this secret. ”

Old man Ouyang said in a low voice: "It is rumored that the Qingming Shanghe map is a treasure map!" Back then, Song Huizong secretly ordered Zhang Zeduan to draw this secret into the painting, hiding the secret of the treasure of the Northern Song Dynasty! ”

"Really?" Wu Tianyuan's eyes lit up, he liked to hear about treasures the most, and asked curiously.

"It has been recorded in history that the economic strength of the Northern Song Dynasty is quite strong, it is a typical poor country and rich people, and there are countless people fat and ointment looted from the people during the Xuanhe period of the Song Huizong Dynasty, and there are all kinds of rare and exotic toys, calligraphy and paintings, each of which is rare and rare."

"I love Zhang Wenyou, the new picture is wonderful. The ruler of the arts, the pen to the people, the beginning of the green flea, the adult white head new, ancient and modern to read this, such as in the spring of the river. ”

Old man Ouyang said with a smile: "The folk evidence is that in this poem, the talented emperor has played a word game with us for thousands of years, and the poem is picked out in an irregular way, and each sentence is singled out one word, and finally it can be composed. If you pick out two more words from the last two sentences, it is - read above, which means that Song Huizong already knows about this matter, and is very happy, this is not only a treasure painting, but also hides an unknown secret. ”

"What does it mean that the text and the map are exhausted, and the matter becomes an ancient river?"

"It means that the graphics and dimensions are in the painting, and the completion lies in the ancient river, which is the ancient Bianhe that has long disappeared, and the secret of the legendary treasure should have a deep relationship with the Bianhe." (To be continued.) )