Up the River During Qingming

清明上河圖

Qing Court Version · 1736 · Ink and color on silk · 35.6 × 1152.8 cm

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Handscroll · 手卷

Up the River During Qingming

清明上河圖 · 淸院本

A handscroll is viewed by unrolling it from right to left. Because the scenes appear a little at a time, the viewer can take in each detail slowly, one by one.

Drag the painting back and forth, and zoom in to look closely. Press the left arrow to meet its stories in the order the scroll unrolls.

Compare with the Song original How does this 1736 version differ from Zhang Zeduan’s 12th-century scroll? Composition, technique and story, side by side. This Qing Court Version · 173611.5 m Northern Song original · early 12th c.5.3 m Drawn to the same scale Explore the comparison

Made: 1736 (1st year of Qianlong, Qing dynasty), a joint work of court painters
Painters: Chen Mei · Sun Hu · Jin Kun · Dai Hong · Cheng Zhidao
Medium and size: Ink and color on silk, 35.6 × 1152.8 cm
Collection: National Palace Museum, Taipei

This app displays the 1736 Qing Court version. Its layout was inspired by the Field Museum’s Qingming Scroll interactive. The painting in that interactive is a late Ming copy (late 16th or 17th century), which we initially mistook for Zhang Zeduan’s 12th-century Northern Song original when building this app.

License

Artwork: Up the River During Qingming (Qing Court Version), handscroll, 1736

Image courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Modifications for web display: The image is divided into JPEG tiles, with half-resolution tiles and a reduced-size preview for loading and navigation. A cropped, resized excerpt is used as the link-sharing preview image. The viewer scales and clips the displayed image for panning and zooming, and adds interactive story markers, highlight overlays, and decorative scroll effects.

This web app is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Palace Museum.