《清明上河图》是北宋画家张择端在宋徽宗时期的翰林画院任职时画的。后来由宋徽宗题写画名并收藏。后金人攻陷汴京(今开封)之后,此画流落民间。到了明朝嘉靖年间,当时的宰相严嵩听说此画在员外王振斋手中,便派总督王忏去买。王振斋惧怕严嵩的权势,但又舍不得将画卖给他,于是就 “Qingming Riverside” was painted by Zhang Songdian, an artist in the Northern Song Dynasty during his tenure in the Hanlin Painting Academy during the Huizong period. Later by Huizong Song title and collection title. After the gold men fall to Beijing (now Kaifeng), this painting flows down the folk. To the Ming Dynasty Jiajing years, when the prime minister Yan Song heard that this painting in the hands of Wang Zhenzai outsiders, he sent Governor Wang Repentance to buy. Wang Zhenzhai afraid of the power of Yan Song, but could not bear to sell the painting to him, so