QINGMING Festival is a traditional day in China which has a history of over 2,500 years. It is a day on which the final resting places of one’s family ancestors are swept clean and sacrifices are offered for the soul...QINGMING Festival is a traditional day in China which has a history of over 2,500 years. It is a day on which the final resting places of one’s family ancestors are swept clean and sacrifices are offered for the souls of the departed. As people always go out on excursions on this day, it is also called the Spring Outing Day. Qingming Festival falls around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar, about a fortnight after the Spring Equinox.展开更多
With an analysis on the city image presented by the painting of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, as well as other relevant documents, this paper explores the factors that caused the market system reform in the No...With an analysis on the city image presented by the painting of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, as well as other relevant documents, this paper explores the factors that caused the market system reform in the Northern Song Dynasty. It also explores the features of Dongjing, the capital city's commercial space prompted by the reform, revealing that the growth of urban population, the rise of its commercial status and the emergence of citizen class were the essential factors contributing to the market system reform. It concludes that Dongjing's commercial space shows the following characteristics: developing in a linear form, gradually forming a commercial network system by integrating various shops, markets, and warehouses, expanding to the Outer City to combine the prosperous grassroots markets, and hosting commercial activities with longer business time.展开更多
文摘QINGMING Festival is a traditional day in China which has a history of over 2,500 years. It is a day on which the final resting places of one’s family ancestors are swept clean and sacrifices are offered for the souls of the departed. As people always go out on excursions on this day, it is also called the Spring Outing Day. Qingming Festival falls around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar, about a fortnight after the Spring Equinox.
文摘With an analysis on the city image presented by the painting of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, as well as other relevant documents, this paper explores the factors that caused the market system reform in the Northern Song Dynasty. It also explores the features of Dongjing, the capital city's commercial space prompted by the reform, revealing that the growth of urban population, the rise of its commercial status and the emergence of citizen class were the essential factors contributing to the market system reform. It concludes that Dongjing's commercial space shows the following characteristics: developing in a linear form, gradually forming a commercial network system by integrating various shops, markets, and warehouses, expanding to the Outer City to combine the prosperous grassroots markets, and hosting commercial activities with longer business time.
