北宋结束了五代十国的分裂局面,随着政治、经济、文化的繁荣,新型商业经济结构形成了。新型商业结构模式带来了市民阶层的迅速壮大和市井艺术的普遍繁荣,《清明上河图》描写的景象就是北宋市民阶层崛起的真实记录。北宋中叶以后,由于新经济因素的增长,商品经济日益发达,以商贾和百工为主体的市民阶层逐渐壮大,社会影响日益扩大。市民阶层所要求的商业社会的原则和封建传统体系产生冲突,既有经济基础的矛盾,唯物 The Northern Song Dynasty ended the split of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms. With the political, economic and cultural prosperity, a new commercial economic structure was formed. The new model of commercial structure has brought about the rapid growth of the public class and the widespread prosperity of the art of urban art. The scene portrayed by the “Qingming Riverside Figure” is a true record of the rise of the civic class in North Song Dynasty. Since the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the growth of new economic factors and the increasingly developed commodity economy, the civic strata mainly composed of merchants and hundred industries have gradually expanded and their social impact has been expanding day by day. The principle of commercial society demanded by the public class conflicts with the traditional feudal system. It not only has the contradictions of economic base,