Zhang Zeduan

(noun)

(1085–1145) A famous Chinese painter of the Song Dynasty, who lived during the transitional period from the Northern Song to the Southern Song and was instrumental in the early history of the Chinese landscape art style known as shan shui.

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Examples of Zhang Zeduan in the following topics:

  • Painting under the Song Dynasty

    • One of the greatest landscape painters given patronage by the Song court was Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145), who painted the original Along the River During Qingming Festival scroll, one of the most well-known masterpieces of Chinese visual art.
    • Detail of the original "Along the River during Qingming Festival" by Zhang Zeduan, early 12th century
    • Zhang Zeduan was instrumental in the early history of the Chinese landscape art style known as shan shui.
    • Zhang's original painting of the Along the River During the Qingming Festival reveals much about life in China during the 11th-12th century.

  • Orthodox Confucian Painting under the Qing Dynasty

    • Under the Orthodox School, court painters made new versions of the Song masterpiece, Zhang Zeduan's Along the River During the Qingming Festival, whose depiction of a prosperous and happy realm demonstrated the beneficence of the emperor.

  • The Song Dynasty

    • A prime example of a highly venerated court painter was Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145), who painted an enormous panoramic painting, Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

  • The Eastern Han Period

    • Emperor Guangwu was succeeded by Emperor Ming, followed by Emperor Zhang.
    • The Rule of Ming and Zhang, as it is called, is remembered for being an era of prosperity.

  • References

    • Zhang, Li-Fang. (2002).

  • The Fall of the Han and the Three Kingdoms Period

    • After the death of Emperor Zhang (of the Eastern Han period's Rule of Ming and Zhang) in 88 CE, corrupt officials increasingly gained control of the state, while family feuds tore the dynasty apart.

  • The Silk Road

    • Expansion by the Han took place around 114 BCE, led mainly by imperial envoy Zhang Qian.

  • Rise of the Tang Dynasty

    • Two of China's most famous poets, Li Bai and Du Fu, belonged to this age, as did many famous painters such as Han Gan, Zhang Xuan, and Zhou Fang.
    • His staunch Confucian chancellor Zhang Jiuling (673–740) worked to reduce deflation and increase the money supply by upholding the use of private coinage, while his aristocratic and technocratic successor, Li Linfu (d. 753) favored government monopoly over the issuance of coinage.

  • Architecture during the Six Dynasties Period

    • Wei mechanical engineer Ma Jun is considered by many to be the equal of his predecessor Zhang Heng.

  • Putting Chaku-Chaku into practice

    • (Yu, Qian, Yun, Chen, Yanbin, Jiang, and Lijuan, Zhang, ‘A Clean Production Process of Sodium Chlorite from Sodium Chlorate', Journal of Cleaner Production) This discovery saved several companies in the chemical industry the time and expense of figuring it out on their own.