The most frequent answer to this question about the ideal world is the Song Dynasty. The reason is simple: the Song Dynasty is the most suitable dynasty to live in, as it emphasizes both ideals and realities, and combines both great vulgarity and great elegance.
Why Song Dynasty? Perhaps it is because people have seen the prosperity of the Song Dynasty from "Qingming Shanghe Tu"; perhaps it is because the work of "Tokyo Meng Hua Lu" has written the real life of the people in the Song Dynasty.
Turning over the "Tokyo Dreaming Records", as if opening the door of time and space, that side is separated by a thousand years of blossoms, living color. Tokyo is the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Bianliang, now Kaifeng, Henan Province. Even if you measure it with the vision of a livable city nowadays, it has all the indicators: stores and hotels are located one after another, decorated with landscape paintings, tableware is made of silver, and tasting seasonal fruits and vegetables, and northern and southern delicacies are no problem; night life is rich, "the night market is open until the end of the third night, and then it is reopened again at five o'clock, such as a playground to go to, and the knowledge is never-ending"; cultural consumption has hooks and hooks. "; cultural consumption, there are hooks and tiles of the place, staged talking, singing, puppets, acrobatics, etc., the public look excited, "not to rain, cold and summer, the shed to see the people, such as the day".
"Tokyo Dreaming Records", is the Song Dynasty Meng Yuan Lao's notes body prose essay. The author Meng Yuan Lao, birth and death date is unknown, the number of Yu Lan Jushi, the Northern Song Dynasty Tokyo Kaifeng Province, Song Dynasty literati. Created in the second year of Emperor Qinzong's Jingkang reign in the Song Dynasty, the notebook is a work that traces the customs of the city of Kaifeng in Tokyo, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. Most of the record is Song Huizong Chongning to Xuanhe years of the Northern Song Dynasty capital city of Tokyo Kaifeng, depicting the historical period living in Tokyo, up to the princes and nobles, down to the daily life of the common people, is the study of the Northern Song Dynasty urban social life, economic and cultural an extremely important historical documents.
The book is divided into 10 volumes with more than 30,000 words. The first volume records the Northern Song Dynasty Tokyo outer city, inner city and the structure of the city, as well as the river, the layout of the Imperial City, the central government, etc.; the second and third volumes mainly include a few important streets in front of the city, stores, restaurants, food, night market, morning market, miscellaneous sales, fire prevention, etc.; the fourth, the fifth volume mainly describes the Crown Prince Consort, Princess out of the surrender and civil marriage, parenting, and other customary practices, as well as meat, fish and other various lines of the city, as well as The sixth volume until the end, the author in chronological order, recounts the first month, the spring, the Lantern Festival, the sixteenth day, the Qingming Festival, the eighth day of April, the Dragon Boat Festival, the sixth day of June, the Tanabata, the Mid-Yuan Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chungyang Festival, the winter, the winter solstice, December, New Year's Eve and other festivals, as well as the major royal rituals of the year, such as New Year's Day court, the winter solstice, the car and car stayed in the Grand Hall of the Great Celebration, blessing of the life of a child, the Imperial ancestral temple, The Southern Suburbs of Heaven, and so on.
Tokyo Dreaming Records" is the first theme of Bianliang's food, the people to food for heaven. But you can't think of Bianliang with today's knowledge of Henan cuisine. According to statistics, the book a **** involves more than 300 varieties of food. From the ingredients, meat, eggs, poultry, beans, offal, game, river food, seafood have been developed into dishes, so that China stands in the world's catering industry of superb culinary skills, slipping fried and preserved burned, steamed and boiled brine stewed, waxed, fried and pickled, etc. has reached the state of perfection.
After eating and drinking, of course, is the fun. The second theme of the book is Bianliang's tile house. Some people have counted the composition of Kaifeng citizens, who are nobles, officials, merchants, craftsmen, a huge number of forbidden soldiers and their families. This new class of citizens not only consumed the restaurants, markets and night markets that lined Kaifeng city, but also had a demand for culture and entertainment. Once upon a time, these cultural and entertainment activities existed in the upper class, but later all kinds of entertainers took to the streets to entertain the public. In response to the new audience, the entertainers not only transformed and innovated their programs, but also gradually formed a specialized performance space, the Washa. Also known as wazi or wajian, washa not only contained singing and dancing performances, playing and singing, and talking, but also commercial bazaars. "Tokyo Dream Book" specifically explains that the tile in the medicine, selling Gua, selling old clothes, selling food, paper-cutting and painting, in today's words, this is the city to provide public **** entertainment and leisure large-scale complexes.
The original meaning of the hook fence is a fence, the Han Dynasty with a railing to the performance of the terrace separation, not allowing people to casually enter. Evolution to the Song Dynasty, the performance of the terrace into the hook fence, became a different performance venue in the Washou. Of course, the green house is also synonymous with the hook fence, the following will not expand.
The third theme of the book is the scenery of Bianliang, which is much wider, Meng Yuanlao's words between the lines, presenting us with a city of shopping and enjoyment.
Year after year, Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, is a night of lanterns and moonlight, when the moon flies and flowers bloom, and the music vibrates, and the night banquet is held in a luxurious house. Northern Song Dynasty Kaifeng let Meng Yuan Lao immersed in it, but also made him feel sad and depressed, said: "Servants now remember, looking back in disappointment, is not the dream of Huaxu Jueya?" For the people of today, a thousand years later, it is like entering a magnificent dream: a long period of peace and prosperity. The children are playing and encouraging, and the old men are unaware of the war. Throughout the year, there are lanterns and moonlight, snow and flower fairs, Tanabata and Chrysanthemums. As far as the eye can see, there are all the green buildings, the painted pavilions, the beaded curtains and the embroidered houses. Carved car BMW, endless streams, gold and jade dazzling eyes, Luoqi fragrance ......
Tokyo Dream Records, a written "Qingming Shanghe Tu".