Previous pressure after Quinming on silk lines Zhang Zeduan. Qingmíng Shànghé Tú (sinice: The Qingming role). Pressure on brown silk line. 25.5 x 528 cm. In modern illustrated cardboard box (these rubbed on the joints) China 19. ==References====External links== ==References== Formerly reprint of the famous Quingming role of the painter Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145), which arose at the time of the Song Dynasty and the numerous different festivities of the Qingming Festival, the Chinese Memorial to the Dead in April (the 106th century). Day of the solar calendar) along the river of the city of Kaifeng. While at the edges the peasant life is depicted, the streets are animated by city scenes, along the magnificent buildings of the river of the former capital. One counts almost 1000 people, from farm and field workers, cattle herders, carts, craftsmen to precision mechanics, goldsmiths, merchants and also flanciers, who visit the numerous inns represented. Especially impressive is the big bridge in the middle of the role, to which all scenes seem to run - and just wants to cross under a ship, whose sailors will hardly manage to catch up with the huge main mast in time. It is precisely this dramatic tension that owes the role painting its great popularity and popularity, so that it has been copied and painted over and over again. From right to left - true to the original - the scenes, here especially beautiful in the finest line print are probably pulled off from wooden panels on silk lines. – Rolled and accordingly with light rolling tracks. At the beginning and end the edges are slightly kink-spured and with slight signs of wear, slightly tanned in places, otherwise good and rich in contrast in print. All in all well received.