Not overestimated, from the Water Margin book inside the Song Dynasty economy, the Song Dynasty is indeed economic prosperity. There are three reasons for this, the first reason is that the book shows that the food industry was very developed in the Song Dynasty, and there were many restaurants, the second reason is that the book shows that the people of the Song Dynasty had a certain degree of purchasing power, and the third reason is that it can be seen from the book that the commercialization of agriculture had already taken place in the Song Dynasty.

01, everywhere you can see the restaurant

In one of China's four masterpieces of the book "Water Margin", a lot of content is involved in the wine, from the beginning of the book to the end of the book, the description of the wine and liquor as well as wine shop is very much. For example, Wu Er Master (Wu Sung) Jing Yang Gang inside drunken tiger, and Wu Er Master angrily beat Jiang Men Shen, as well as the nightmare Sun Er Niang open black store, casual examples can be found in the story content are related to liquor liquor stores, taverns frequently, which shows that in the Song Dynasty period of the catering industry is very developed.

Revisit the Wu Er Master is ready to go to beat Jiang Men Shen on the road, Wu Er Master is, after all, a martial arts practitioner, and is the prime of life, Going to the location of the Jiang Men Shen, a *** to walk more than a dozen miles away, the people of the Wu Er Master on foot, and the place where the restaurant countless, which is recorded in the book, If it were not for the Wu Er Master has to deal with, I estimate that he would have to drink to the day! I think he would have had to drink until the end of his days. If the economy was bad at that time, how could there be so many people opening liquor stores, if the economy was bad the people of the Song Dynasty still had free time to drink and eat meat, so we can judge from here that the economy of the Song Dynasty was very prosperous.

02, the people of the Song dynasty have a certain purchasing power

This point has to be seen from the leopard head Lin Chong, Lin Chong in the grass before the bandits, his position is eight hundred thousand forbidden army instructor, Lin Chong from the family took out a thousand Guan money to buy a sword, the conversion of the Song dynasty, the period of consistency of the same money is equivalent to more than five hundred dollars of purchasing power, the Song dynasty is the same as the present. The purchase power of more than five hundred yuan, which is still my minimum estimate of the amount of equivalent exchange. An army instructor has such a high ability to pay, from which we can learn that the Song dynasty at that time was very rich, the Song people's personal is also well-fed, wear warm and even have a certain purchasing power.

03, the emergence of agricultural commercialization

The typical character should be the vegetable garden Zhang Qing, his garden is to mean that their own planted vegetables to the outside sales mean. In the Song Dynasty period there are many vegetable gardens do not belong to individuals, but belong to the group, such as temples, etc. , and from the vegetable garden out of the vegetables, will be sold as commodities, from which can also be seen in the Song Dynasty has appeared in the trend of agricultural commoditization, from the side can also be illustrated in the Song Dynasty period of economic prosperity, Song Dynasty people living in affluence.