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How was Zhang Zeduan's The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival discovered?
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down in China. The other nine paintings are Luo Shen by Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Fuchun Map by Huang in the Yuan Dynasty, Han Palace Map in the Ming Dynasty and Hundred Horses Map in the Qing Dynasty.

Yan's Walking Map in Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xuan's Ladies in Tang Dynasty, Han Han's Five Cattle Map in Tang Dynasty, Han Xizai's Banquet in Southern Tang Dynasty and Wang Ximeng's Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains in Northern Song Dynasty.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is 5.28 meters long and 0.25 meters wide. It depicts the bustling scene of Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the daily life of the people, which is of great historical value.

Zhang Zeduan, a native of Wudong, Langya (now Zhucheng, Shandong Province), worked in Hanlin Painting Academy when he was in Song Huizong. He mainly paints palace paintings. In addition to The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, his existing works include Jin Mingchi Waiting for a Price.

Zhang Zeduan is not recorded in the history books. His life records are all from the postscript of Zhu's Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. Postscript is written at the back of the picture to evaluate the picture or introduce the relevant information of the picture and the author, which is equivalent to taking notes on the picture.

Zhang Zhu's postscript is only seven or eight crosses, but because it is only a few decades away from the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is the only record, the historical data of this postscript is of high value.

After Zhang Zeduan finished painting The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, he gave it to Song Huizong. Song Huizong wrote the words "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" in fine gold, and printed the seal script of Shuanglong, but there is no seal script of Shuanglong in the present version.

After the disaster of Jingkang, the riverside scene in Qingming fell into the hands of gold miners, and many of them were run over by the people. It is said that it later fell into the hands of Jia Sidao in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the yuan dynasty, he entered the court of the yuan dynasty and later went to the people. In the Ming Dynasty, it fell into the hands of Yan Song, then entered the court of the Ming Dynasty, and was later taken away by eunuch Feng Bao.

In the Qing Dynasty, it fell into the hands of Bi Yuan, the governor of Huguang. After Bi Yuan's death, he once again entered the Forbidden City in the Qing Dynasty. 19 1 1 year, Pu Yi was taken out of the palace on the grounds that he gave it to his younger brother Pu Jie, and was intercepted and kept in the Palace Museum in Beijing.