The economic development of the Southern Song Dynasty is highlighted by the prosperity of the city. Speaking of the customized scroll painted by the Northern Song artist Zhang Zeduan - Qingming Shanghe Tu, you must have an impression. It shows us the prosperity of the capital city of Tokyo the capital city of Tokyo. The prosperity of Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty far exceeded that of the Northern Song capital. Yongwang Haichao word cloud: southeast shape, for the metropolis, Qiantang since ancient times prosperous. Willow painting bridge, wind curtain green curtain, 100,000 families. Trees around the embankment is scarce, the angry waves roll frost and snow, natural moat boundless. City full of pearls, household Luoqi, competing luxury. Lake stacked Jiaqing, there are three autumn osmanthus, ten miles of lotus. Qiang flute put clear, Songling all night flow. Wish you fishing lotus baby have fun. High teeth ride, drunkenly listen to the drums, chanting and enjoying the smoke and clouds. A different day is good, return to the wind pool boast. Liu always depicts the richness of Hangzhou as a paradise. It is said that in 1161 A.D., King Wanyan Liang of the Jin Hailing launched a large-scale attack on the Southern Song Dynasty, which was to some extent influenced by this word. In addition to the economic prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty, the size and number of cities also far exceeded those of previous generations. According to statistics, there were only 13 cities with more than 100,000 households, and by the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty there were 46. Bianliang and Lin An in the Southern Song Dynasty was the fourth or fifth metropolis in the world with a population of more than one million, following Nanjing, Luoyang and Chang. An. According to Xianchun Lin'an Zhi year, Lin has 1.24 million people Southern Song Dynasty, a city that consumes up to 30,000 stones of grain per day. The size of this city was unprecedented at the time, and Hangzhou became one of the few major cities in the world at the time. During the European Renaissance of the 14th-16th centuries, the population of London, the most famous metropolis, was only about 34,000. Its no wonder that Kerbero was shocked by the luxurious style of Hangzhou when he arrived there. This shows that China created a splendid and civilized cosmopolitan city as early as the Southern Song Dynasty. Another feature of the commercial prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty was the breaking down of the closed alley system that had long existed in the city and the establishment of an open street system. The commercial area broke the limitation of time and space, and the commercial area was mixed with the residential area, and all kinds of stores were set up along the street and the river, forming a prosperous commercial street. With the development of commerce, purely economic cities emerged in the Southern Song Dynasty. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu recorded Lin then a city: Hangzhou and the four corners of the convergence of the land, customers came to business, stopping on the road at noon, once lived a wasted day. There were teahouses, hotels, noodle shops, fruit, colored silks, incense and candles, oil and sauce and rice stores. Everywhere, and there were three or four drums on the street, five at first with few tourists. Today, there are still many works of the Song that record the magnificent scenery of the capital at that time, such as Wu Mengliang Records, the careful old stories of Wulin, and the anonymous Records of the Old Man's Prosperous Victory at West Lake. These works document Lin at the time, and even today, they are amazing to read. In addition to Anfu City, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty in Lin, other towns and cities thrived in commerce. Jiankang Chengfu, for example, was a commercial metropolis on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Its commercial area was mainly located on both sides of the Neiqin River, with very prosperous commercial markets such as Niu Ma City, Gushi City, Shi Now City, and Yarn Market, and the landmarks of the prosperous commercial area, Zhenhuai Bridge and Yinhong Bridge, were built. There are thousands of scales on the bridge and many streets in the city are named after banks, flower stores, chicken stores and fish markets. Chicken stores have been prosperous places since ancient times, and all goods are collected on Bank Street. It is evident that healthy business activity is flourishing. The population of Ching Kin Mansion is several hundred thousand people, and 2,000 stones of rice are eaten every day. It is evident that it was a fairly large city, and Jiankang was just one representative of Ma

The prosperity of the cities of the Southern Song Dynasty propelled the development of Chinese cities to a new peak. It is the prosperity of the economy and the prosperity of the cities hidden behind the politics of defeat that gives us the opportunity to re-examine the position and role of the Southern Song in the long history. It was the economic prosperity caused by this chain of foreign trade that was able to withstand the trampling of foreign iron riders and maintain social stability throughout the Southern Song. As a result of the prosperity of urban commerce in the Southern Song Dynasty, the boundaries between square time and square time were broken, and many all-night establishments appeared to meet the needs of the growing urban economy and citizens. At the same time, a variety of entertainment activities reflecting the cultural life of the citizens also moved from small-scale performances scattered in the countryside to the city, becoming professional urban literary groups with fixed performance venues to perform various types of literary performances for the citizens, thus pushing Chinese folk opera and folk art to a peak. In this context, the city's wahshe hookahs rose to prominence. According to reports, at that time in Lin there were 13 hookahs then a city, more than twenty tile neighborhoods outside the city. There were many points, and the thirteen hookahs were not idle, and there would be a reunion at the end. Inside there are several stores, the big stores do ten pigs a day, visible prosperity. Famous artists from all over the country come to Lin a man who performs for a living. Tile houses in the Southern Song Dynasty, all kinds of hooks crowded, the big ones to accommodate more than a thousand people, the performance every day, regardless of the weather. And the performance is dazzling, there are acrobatics, acrobatics, magic, sumo wrestling, flower drums, rap, shadow puppets, dance everything. The emergence of a large number of tiled houses in the city enriched the entertainment life of the citizens and promoted the development of the city's commercial and service industries. On this basis, the catering industry and entertainment and luxury industry had a great development. As a result, the rise and fall of secular culture in the Southern Song Dynasty continued throughout the Southern Song Dynasty, which had a far-reaching influence on the development of secular culture in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The rise of secular culture in the Southern Song Dynasty was closely related to the policies guided by the rulers. As early as the early Northern Song Dynasty, the founding fathers were encouraged to buy more kabuki for daily drinking and pleasure, leading to Song people's enjoyment. The extravagance and luxury of the bureaucratic landlord class, with its songs and dances, attracted artists from all over the country, contributing to this enjoyment. After Zhao moved south, he indulged in banquets, West Lake songs and dances, and the customs of the four seasons. He was so extravagant that he did not think of recovering the Central Plains and was only interested in pleasing his enemies. The atmosphere and enthusiasm for enjoyment were extended to the whole country. Thus, the enjoyment of the wind, the effect of up and down, the simplicity of the people and the play of the masses. Even when the Mongolian iron hooves were suppressed, the rulers and citizens were still immersed in songs and dances. In addition, the government of the Southern Song Dynasty had been encouraging overseas trade, and the trade goods it obtained in the market were often luxury goods that the public could not afford, and this commercial trade promoted the winds of comparison and extravagance to a certain extent. The prosperity of the cities of the Southern Song Dynasty also created conditions for the extravagant pleasures of the ruling class at that time. The prosperity of the past has long since become ruins buried deep in the ground; the splendor of the past has also become a thing of the past. But we can not deny the immortality and splendor of that glorious era. More than a thousand years have passed, and our nostrils can still smell the lotus scent on Lin A century and a half has passed, and we can still hear the noise of the busy streets. Uncovering the mysterious veil of the Southern Song Dynasty, we can see the legend of the martial spirit sf, a new Southern Song Dynasty, a flourishing Southern Song Dynasty, a rising Southern Song Dynasty, a Zhao Dynasty that is declining but still winning.