Why do many hotels hang a picture of Riverside Scene on Qingming Festival in the lobby?

Because it involves "eating, living, traveling, traveling, entertaining and shopping"? Guests' needs in six major hotels.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival depicts the situation of Tokyo (now Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, mainly focusing on the natural scenery and prosperity on both sides of the Bianliang River and the Bianhe River. In the form of long scrolls, the author uses the composition method of scattered perspective to bring complicated scenery into a unified and changeable picture. The distance between the bridge and the house on the city wall is high or low, including grass, trees, horses, cows, donkeys and camels, as well as residents, pedestrians, ships and cars. The past is one after another, and all the songs are full of grace and countless records. The scene is vast and the content is extremely rich. The whole painting is magnificent, rigorous in composition and meticulous in brushwork, which fully shows the painter's profound insight into social life and superb artistic expression ability.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is not only a treasure of realistic painting art, but also provides us with first-hand information on the detailed images of the capital city of the Northern Song Dynasty in terms of commerce, handicrafts, folk customs, architecture and transportation, which is of great historical document value. Its rich ideological connotation, unique aesthetic perspective and realistic expression techniques make it regarded as a classic in the painting history of China and even the world.