2026-01-23 05:47:51

Have you ever thought that our Qingming Riverside Scene actually is the earliest meme? The various characters and scenes of common people in the painting, upon closer inspection, are just like the memes repeatedly circulated and remixed in today's internet culture—people from every era can find something in it, interpret it repeatedly, and create various derivatives. In the Web3 community, isn't this the original meme spirit? From the Song Dynasty thousands of years ago to today's crypto culture, essentially, they are playing the same game.

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pvt_key_collector

· 14h ago

Wow, this angle is amazing. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is like an ancient NFT secondary creation collection. Now I understand.

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OnChain_Detective

· 14h ago

wait hold up... let me run pattern analysis on this historical parallel logic. seeing some red flags in the meme-ification thesis here ngl

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SocialAnxietyStaker

· 14h ago

Haha, this perspective is amazing, it feels like opening a blind box of Along the River During Qingming Festival.

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BlockchainArchaeologist

· 14h ago

Haha, this perspective is interesting. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is indeed the original scene of secondary creation. He's damn right. Since ancient times, it's been the same old story—repackaging the same old joke culture. The same tactics used in the crypto world were tried during the Song Dynasty, right? The meme spirit never goes out of style. He's got a point. The meme gene in Chinese culture has been passed down through generations. We are the inheritors. Wait, are those people in the painting also aping? Haha. Really, deconstructing ancient culture is the earliest form of community creativity. No doubt about it. This metaphor is brilliant. The people of the Song Dynasty are essentially no different from today's degens. It's outrageous—thousands of years of meme cycles. I need to think carefully about this logic.

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