Dragon Pavilion

The painting by the artist Zhang Zeduan shows a typical Qingming Festival scene.

The city of that time is also integral to the famous writing, Dongjing Meng Hua Lu (Dreams of Splendour of the Eastern Capital).

[3] The Jurchens kept their main capital further north until 1214 when they were forced to move the imperial court southwards to Kaifeng in order to flee from the Mongol onslaught.

The current design was first built during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor during the Qing dynasty on the foundations of the old Song imperial palace.

A news magazine article from 1948 describes the Dragon Pavilion as burned during the Chinese Civil War.

The road is lined with two story wooden buildings with tile roofs made to look like authentic Song dynasty architecture.

Dragon Pavilion
The famous painting Qingming Scroll is believed by some to portray life in Kaifeng on a Qingming Festival day. The painting, of which several versions are extant (the above is an 18th-century copy), is attributed to the Song dynasty (960–1279) artist Zhang Zeduan .
Games in the Jinming Pool , an early 12th-century painting depicting Kaifeng, by Zhang Zeduan.