Some background information for my story can be found at the links below:
http://www.npm.gov.tw/exh96/orientation/flash_4/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along_the_River_During_the_Qingming_Festival
From Wikipedia:
The theme celebrates the festive spirit and worldly commotion at the Qingming Festival, rather than the holiday’s ceremonial aspects, such as tomb sweeping and prayers. The entire piece was painted in hand scroll format and the content reveals the lifestyle of all levels of the society from rich to poor as well as different economic activities in rural areas and the city. It offers glimpses of period clothing and architecture. As an artistic creation, the piece has been revered and court artists of subsequent dynasties have made several re-interpretive replicas. The painting is also known for its geometrically accurate images of variety natural elements and architectures, boats and bridges, market place and stores, people and scenery. It is one of the most precious document ever survived, being a unique existing example of the traditional Chinese painting. The original painting is valued highly not only for its rich and sophisticated content derived pure aesthetics value, but also as an important evidence for study the civilization, historiography, technology development and anthropology of ancient China.
There are a lot of different chereters in the picture, and these two pictures are how the drew them.
Christina tooks pictures with almost every character.
The exhibit is very nice although Christina didn’t quite understand of the meaning of it. But I’m sure that we both the sense of the beauty of Chinese culture and enjoyed the show.