For example, a few years ago, in some media publications about "which dynasty do you want to travel most", the turnout rate in the Song Dynasty was always surprisingly high. Among all kinds of travel novels, serial novels with the theme of "Crossing to the Song Dynasty" are even more common. Many enthusiastic readers opened their eyes to see what the Song Dynasty was like.
Then the question is, how did this Da Song have the charm of years, which made people linger so much?
If one day, crossing technology is no longer a scientific and technological problem, but a popular time travel industry, we might as well make a superficial description of tourism with the Song Dynasty as a scenic spot and outline the amazing scenery of the Great Song Dynasty thousands of years ago.
One: Compared with the previous Han and Tang Dynasties, the first beauty of the Dasong Dynasty is that the city is full of amorous feelings.
Contemporary Europe, the largest city, has a population just over100000. However, in the northern and southern areas of the Song Dynasty, cities with a population of over 100,000 were not unusual when the People's Republic of China was founded. Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, is a huge city: the outer city of Bianjing has a circumference of 46 miles and a permanent population of1500,000, which is recognized as the leading mega-city in the world.
Such a big city has complete facilities. According to Lu, there is a "military patrol station" every 300 steps in Bianjing City, which is staffed with five soldiers and is responsible for city safety and fire prevention all day. In particular, once a fire breaks out, report it to Maxima immediately, and then the Beijing Garrison will bring all kinds of appliances to put out the fire.
In addition, a "fire boat" was pioneered, and two huge ships carrying special fire-fighting equipment were moored on the Bianhe River day and night. Do land and water go hand in hand and do a good job of safety protection.
Wandering in such a city, you will be surprised at the fashion style of the citizens in the Song Dynasty: in the Tang Dynasty, only rich and powerful people were allowed to enjoy gold and silver jewelry and clothes, while Bianjing people with bulging pockets wore them when they were happy. According to the anger of Sima Guang, the old prime minister, "all vendors and pawns wear stockings". The warm sedan chair, which used to be used only by senior officials, is more ostentatious in the city. People in the Song Dynasty can ride easily as long as they have money.
City life is more lively. In the Tang Dynasty, strict market boundaries made it necessary to buy some daily necessities through most cities, which became a thing of the past in the Song Dynasty. The boundaries of the city square have been completely broken. There are more than 300 commercial banks in Bianjing City, which are busy during the day and even more popular at night. Night markets, large and small, often have to be tossed around until midnight before they reopen in the fifth watch: Panlou South Street sells rare birds and animals, Mabeixing Street sells medicinal materials, and Panlou East Street sells clothes. Friends who love shopping turn around all night to ensure dazzling.
Of course, I can't get enough of the tile houses in Bianjing. These entertainment venues located in prosperous areas can accommodate thousands of people each. Wahri is divided into "Goulan" with railings, and there are various performances such as rap, folk art and acrobatics, which last all night. The most popular is the sumo performance. Sumo wrestlers, a big man, was killed in the ring, and the ring was full. Even the emperors of the Song Dynasty sometimes came to watch the excitement: Well, it's not unusual to meet the emperors in the Great Song Dynasty and in Wahli.
Two: the big song on the tip of the tongue. Of course, if you really visit Dasong, you must not miss it, that is, the rich and colorful food of Dasong.
Although the urban population increased sharply in Song Dynasty, food safety never relaxed. Every night, there are tens of thousands of pork dealers outside the smoke gate in the south of Bianjing City, and every piece of pork can only be released after inspection. The meat in large and small restaurants in Bianjing City comes from this kind of "reassuring meat".
In addition to eating safely, there are many tips. Even ordinary people, eating out is common. Bianjing has many snack brands, such as plum blossom steamed bread, Cao meat pie, oil cake, Shifeng bazi meat and so on. The frying and frying techniques are alive. Bianjing alone has 72 large restaurants and tens of thousands of snack bars. Enough for the whole family.
Happy enough to go shopping and miss dinner? You can also order a takeaway and try it:
The business of "calling by the hour" on the streets of the Northern Song Dynasty was a convenient and quick takeaway. As long as the meal is ordered, it will be delivered then. There are also hundreds of varieties such as steamed bread, rice cake and roast duck. For example, Sigong Song, a thief in the story book of the Song Dynasty, ordered this kind of "takeaway" before going out to do business at night. He eats steamed pancake rolls and condiments such as salt and pepper. Then burp and play the legend of the snitch.
Friends who love drinking will be a little disappointed, because the technology of distilled liquor in Song Dynasty has not been popularized. In Water Margin, the "white wine" that Liangshan heroes drink in a big bowl is basically rural rice wine, which looks very turbid and tastes relatively general. There are also precipitated "sake", sweet orange wine and wine. However, this kind of wine was said by Lu You, and it is "a thousand dollars is hard to buy." You must touch your pockets before you drink heartily.
However, if we catch up with the hot summer, what is more attractive than wine is the "cold drink" of Dasong. Although there was no refrigerator in ancient times, eating ice in summer was still exclusive to nobles before the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty was very different: the technology of making and picking ice was already quite developed.
On a hot summer day, in a big city like Bianjing, cold drinks stalls with blue and white umbrellas are lined up in one breath, and drinks such as "cold Zi Yuan", "cold papaya" and "cold litchi paste" are dazzling, basically made of ice cubes and fruit candy, and all are natural drinks. Yang Wanli, a poet in the Song Dynasty, praised it, saying that ice is sold without water, and pedestrians don't eat its heart.
I am used to eating modern cold drinks. If I change to the pure flavor of the Song Dynasty, I believe I will live well, just as the great poet Yang Wanli said.
Three: See the world with a Song boat. Although the customs of the Song Dynasty are endless, it will be a great pity if you can't stand on the boat of the Song Dynasty.
In the Song Dynasty, the manufacturing industry was developed, the silk weaving and porcelain making techniques were excellent, and the output of copper and iron was several times higher than that in the Tang Dynasty. But if we want to talk about the "fist" product of Dasong manufacturing industry, it must be shipbuilding! In the early Song Dynasty, the shipbuilding output of the Song Dynasty far exceeded that of the Tang Dynasty.
"Liang Lu's Dream" records that the Song Dynasty also built 5,000 sailboats made of materials, which are usually tens of feet long and can accommodate 500 to 600 people at most. At that time, almost all the routes from the southeast coast of China to Arabia were monopolized by China ships. Such a grand occasion, just like the exclamation in the classic Arab travel notes: People who go to China often take China boats.
It is with such a powerful big MAC ship that good goods such as Dasong porcelain and silk are continuously imported into Asian and African countries. Today, from North Korea to North Africa, a large number of Song Dynasty porcelains have been unearthed. On the east coast of Tanzania alone, more than 40 sites have been unearthed one after another, and exquisite Song Dynasty porcelain pieces have been unearthed. As long as the Dasong ship can only get it, the goods of Dasong will be delivered. "Fu Song" is a big ship in the Song Dynasty.
If you want to see the world at that time, you must take Dasong's boat.
Moreover, ships in the Song Dynasty were not only physically strong, but also comfortable to live and travel. There is always a year's supply of food on ships at sea. There are more than 60 quiet suites on the fourth deck, and the boat is also full of flowers, vegetables and fruits to ensure the elegant environment and the supply of vegetables and fruits during the trip. The ships of the Song Dynasty were luxury cruise ships of that era.
In fact, in the Song Dynasty, China people went to sea in droves, which was a popular trend for hundreds of years. In the early Song Dynasty, they were just businessmen in coastal areas, and later many scholars even followed suit.
For example, Su Shi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, once set up a fleet and went deep into Nanyang to dump timber. The vast fleet of ships in the Song Dynasty was also fashionable, and ordinary maritime merchants often had a scale of 100 ships. Wherever they pass, the local king often comes out to meet them. With regard to the strong pride of the country, these scenes have been vividly interpreted.
This great song, which caused a lot of controversy in later generations, is actually Ada's song that has fascinated Chinese people with these prosperous scenes so far.