Zhang Zeduan's Qingming Festival

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Qingming Festival is the masterpiece of Zhang Zeduan who is a painting artist in the Song Dynasty. The painting vividly captures the thriving life of people from Bianjing (Kaifeng), capital of the Song Dynasty. The entire painting was painted in hand scroll format, deployed the method of scatter perspective mapping, and bringing in varied landscape and numerous human characters all dressed differently. Moreover, with the development of a population of more than one million, it was really a metropolitan in all views. The scroll opens from right side to left side, and moving from the countryside progressively into the main city. In a way, the Bian River was essential to the economic and commercial development in the Bianjing City, and hence took

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