![]() Without any doubts, "Upper River during Qing Ming Festival" is one of the most renowned paintings in Chinese history. It was a very long water color landscape scroll on silk created by artist royal Zhang Zeduan of Northern Song Dynasty. In all the several hundreds years since then, many forgeries, imitations, and replicas under the same name were made over and over by various people all the time. It has been quite a challenge to really tell the fakes from the authentic. This scan presented here was a gift from a friendly netter at Singapore who has visited the Great Empire of China here before. This painting, however, is an authentic imitation of the "Upper River during Qing Ming Festival". His Holiness Grand Master has learned from an artist and historian friend of his that this painting scroll was actually created by five artists of the royal court of Qing Dynasty for Emperor Qian Long (You may refer to the handwritings and seal of his majesty at the beginning of the scroll). It is therefore referred among scholars as "Academy Version" (those five artists belong to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts) of the "Upper River during Qing Ming Festival". It has been collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Whether original or imitations, "Upper River during Qing Ming Festival" scroll is not simply a scenic landscape painting but also in essence a historical snapshot of the people and society at that time. It depicts the scenes along the both banks of the Bian River of the capital city of Bian Liang (Kaifeng, Henan Province today) of Northern Song Dynasty during the Qing Ming Festival. It includes pastoral scene in countryside, festivities in local town, busy metropolitan area and markets, and beautiful royal palace garden, with people from all walks of life (about 500 to 600 people counted). The artistic methodologies in this landscape scroll, to certain extend, is miraculously similar to those in China's greatest classic novel of Ming Dynasty "Jin Ping Mei" (also telling a story of Song Dynasty). Here in this page, only 4 partial pictures are shown. Clicking on them will get your a bigger frame for each. If your Internet access speed is high enough and you would not mind a picture of 1 MBytes, you may click here to view the whole scroll. Please use IE 5.5 or Netscape 6.1 or later if possible. Netscape 4.x does not handle large picture very well. And if you would further like to listen to an accompanied music (recommended by His Holiness Grand Master, about 5 MBytes in size) while viewing the scroll, please click here first for playing the music before you click here to open the whole scroll. (Sorry, His Holiness Grand Master would not like to make audio-embedded web pages.) |
不容置疑,《清明上河图》乃是中国历史上最负盛名的风景画,原作为北宋徽宗时代的宫庭画师张择端,为绢本长卷。其后几百年间,以此为名的各种仿制品、赝品不绝于世,鱼龙混杂、真伪莫辨。 这里的一幅《清明上河图》扫描图为一位曾来大中华帝国访问的新加坡的网友所赠。经行家确认,这是所谓的“清院本”《清明上河图》,为清朝五位宫庭画师为乾隆皇帝所制(参见卷头的御笔题字与乾隆鉴赏之印),应为绢本长卷,现藏于台北的国立故宫博物院。 《清明上河图》(无论这幅“清院本”还是张择端原作以及其它仿制品)不仅仅是一幅以风光为主的风景画,本质上讲,它就象是一张历史照片,记录下了当时的风土人情、社会风貌。原作表现的是帝都东京汴梁(今河南省开封)在清明节汴河两岸的繁华景象,顺流囊括了远郊的田园景色、近郊的集镇社戏、市井的繁华、一直到帝苑的秀丽春光。其中有五、六百各色人物,三教九流,车水马龙,蔚为大观。从某种意义上讲,这幅表现当时(北宋)时代的风情画,与以白描手法著称的明代世情小说《金瓶梅》(同样表现宋代故事),无不有异曲同工之妙! 这里所列仅为四幅局部图,点击它们将显示大幅图。如果您的上网速度不慢,不在乎一百万兆字节的图片,而且很想一窥全豹,您不妨点击这里观览《清明上河图》全卷。请尽可能用最新版的流览器,老版很可能不能显示这样的大图片。如果您还雅兴非常,很愿意一边观画一边聍听国师推荐的与此画相配的古典乐曲(约五百万兆字节),请先点击这里奏乐,然后再点击这里打开全卷。(对不起,国师可不打算搞流览器内置背景音响的网页) |
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