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07:26 Jan 20, 2008 

the riverside scene at the day of Qingming festival
' Life along the River on the Qing Ming Festival'
Other translations from Google similar to Mincho's. Thank you!
'Going Upriver on the Spring Festival'?? Is it possible?

06:55 Jan 20, 2008 

Title's Translations
Scholars have disputed the accuracy of the translation of painting's name; the word "Qingming" can refer to either the Qingming Festival or to peace and order, two types of translations have been proposed by scholars: Going Upriver on the Qingming Festival/Spring Festival on the River [3] or Peace Reigns Over the River.

Traditionally, three things have been believed about the original painting:

The city depicted is Kaifeng.
It was painted before the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty in 1127.
It depicts the Qingming Festival.
More recent scholarship challenges all three of those assertions:

The city depicted is an idealized non-existent city.[11]
It was painted after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty in 1127.
It depicts a scene in early Autumn.
During the late 1960s, when the Taipei Palace Museum released a series of books (later digitized as CD-ROM), videos, and stamps about the scroll, it was simply translated as A City of Cathay.[10][12][13]

06:53 Jan 20, 2008