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Chapter 604: Visiting Riverside Garden during Qingming Festival

The Qingming Riverside Garden in Kaifeng is a reproduction of the famous painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" from the Song Dynasty. Playing in it feels like you can travel through a thousand years and return to the prosperous days a thousand years ago.When visiting the Qingming Riverside Garden on a rainy day, you can see many antique umbrellas. If you meet a woman wearing Hanfu, it will be like a reunion spanning a thousand years.Right now, it’s the Kaifeng Chrysanthemum Festival.At this time of year, the entire city of Kaifeng seems to be filled with chrysanthemums.There was once a movie "Chrysanthemum Terrace" in which the entire palace was filled with chrysanthemums. However, in Kaifeng, there is only this season every year, which seems to completely fit the scene of the Chrysanthemum Terrace.

Strolling along the River during the Qingming Festival, you can recall how prosperous Bianjing was back then.When it comes to Kaifeng, people prefer its old name: Tokyo (Northern Song Dynasty).Everyone who comes to Kaifeng hopes to find the relics of the Song Dynasty.Just like when people come to Xi'an, they like to go to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum, and when they come to Luoyang, they like to go to the Longmen Grottoes, because they are all preserved from the Han and Tang Dynasties and are historical relics.The former cities of Chang'an and Luoyang are no longer prosperous, and Xianyang, the former capital of the Qin Empire, is in ruins. Only in Kaifeng can we experience the lives of people in the Song Dynasty up close and personal, yes, in the Riverside Garden during the Qingming Festival.

Although the Qingming Riverside Garden is newly built, the Qingming Mountains and Rivers Painting, the predecessor of the Qingming Riverside Garden, was created by the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan. It has been a national treasure-level cultural relic since its inception and is known as one of China's top ten famous paintings.After the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has been passed down for thousands of years and is now collected in the BJ Palace Museum.It is the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" that outlines the glorious moment of Kaifeng.Although compared with the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty was far inferior in terms of territory and national power, and Kaifeng was far less grand than Chang'an and Luoyang. However, at that time, it was also the most prosperous city in the world, and its prosperity was even higher than that of Chang'an in the Han Dynasty. , Luoyang of the Tang Dynasty is still too much and not as good as it is.The most important thing is that we can restore the various aspects of people's lives at that time through the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".Nowadays in Kaifeng, Qingming Riverside Garden has become a must-see for many people when they come to Kaifeng.Different from the BJ Forbidden City, the Forbidden City displays the majesty of the Heavenly Family in the Forbidden City. The Qingming Riverside Garden is a replica of Bianliang Tokyo. Here, you can see the life of civilians in the Northern Song Dynasty, the prosperity of the streets, and appreciate the scenery in the Water Margin. The Song Dynasty’s defense war directly faced the feat of bombarding the city of Tokyo.You can even imitate the heroes in Water Margin and order three bowls of white wine and a few kilograms of beef in a street restaurant.Some people say that coming here is like returning to Bianliang in the Song Dynasty.Indeed, after all, Bianliang was the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty for more than 100 years, and it was only as prosperous as it was for just a few decades.

Zhao Cui and Li Juan strolled through the Riverside Garden during the Qingming Festival and saw many performances, including stilt walking and fire-breathing performances, as well as water battles, recreating the Jingkang and Kaifeng defense battles.Of course, there are also Wu Dalang sesame cakes, which cost 10 yuan each. After Zhao Cui saw it, he bought one for Ma Xiaoliang, and then said to Ma Xiaoliang: "Here, have a Wu Dalang sesame cake." Ma Xiaoliang broke it and gave half to Zhao Cui: "Here, you Eat one too." Zhao Cui said with a smile: "Let me eat Wu Dalang sesame cakes, and you won't be afraid that one day I will become Pan Jinlian." After hearing this, Li Juan couldn't stop laughing: "Brother Xiao Ma is not the short and thin Wu Dalang. ." Zhao Cui looked at it and sighed: "Why is he tall? He is only 1 meters. As for whether he is thin or not, being fat is wrong."

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