Animated Qingming Scroll Exhibited in Taipei

Visitors watch the animated version of ancient painting Riverside Scene at the Qingming Festival in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, June 30, 2011. The animated version of the Qingming scroll, a highly renowned piece of Chinese painting dating back some 900 years ago, started to be exhibited in Taipei on Thursday. The painting will be projected onto a six-meter-high and 110-meter-wide screen, magnified by 10 times of the scroll's original size. (Xinhua/Li Mingfang)

Digital version

For a three month period in the World Expo 2010 presented at the China Pavilion, the painting was remade by a computer graphics and animation company[14] into an 3D animated, viewer-interactive digital version, about 30 times the size of the original scroll.

The computer animated mural, with moving characters and objects and portraying the scene in 4-minute day to night cycles, was one of the primary exhibitions in the Chinese Pavilion, drawing queues up to two hours with a reservation. Elaborate computer animation gives life to in the painting.

After the Expo, the digital version was also on display at Asia World-Expo in Hong Kong from November 9 to November 29, 2010. It is currently on tour at Taibei from July 01 to October 04, 2011.

Translations of the title

Scholars have disputed the accuracy of the translation of the painting's name; the word Qingming may refer to either the Qingming Festival or to "peace and order". Several types of translations have been proposed by scholars, such as Going Upriver on the Qingming Festival, Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival or Spring Festival on the River or alternatively, Peace Reigns Over the River.

Visitors watch the animated version of ancient painting Riverside Scene at the Qingming Festival in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, June 30, 2011. The animated version of the Qingming scroll, a highly renowned piece of Chinese painting dating back some 900 years ago, started to be exhibited in Taipei on Thursday. The painting will be projected onto a six-meter-high and 110-meter-wide screen, magnified by 10 times of the scroll's original size. (Xinhua/Li Mingfang)