When we mention the most famous Chinese painting of the Northern Song Dynasty, the image coming into people's mind(be) Qingming Shangle Tu or Along the River During the Qingming Festival.
This painting is importantseveral reasons. First, up till that time, almost all Chinese paintings were landscapes,(contain) no or only a few images of people. Second, this is the first scroll（卷轴）painting(describe) both Chinese urban and suburban life during the period in the capital, Bianjing (now Kaifeng in Henan Province). Third, the painting is(high) detailed and features shops of all kinds and different economic(activity) in and out of the city. People are able to see the Chinese technologies of the time, which helps themgreat deal in understandingthe Chinese lived.
The Beijing Palace Museum keeps the(origin) Song painting and one of its famous copies-the Qing version(hold) in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
