What was the daily life of people in Song Dynasty like? We might as well see what kind of life an ordinary citizen of the Song Dynasty could live from the perspective of "eating, drinking and having fun". Say "eat" first. It can be said that the Song Dynasty was the golden age of Chinese cuisine. In China Cuisine, American sinologist Anderson said, "China's great cooking method was also produced in the Song Dynasty. The food in the Tang Dynasty was relatively simple, but in the late Song Dynasty, an exquisite cooking method with local characteristics was fully proved. The rise of local gentry has promoted the study of diet: the royal banquet in the court is as luxurious as ever, but not as creative as the diet of businessmen and local elites. 1998, American Life magazine once selected 100 events that have had the most profound impact on human life in recent 1000 years, and restaurants and snacks in the Song Dynasty were selected as the 56th. Snacks in the Song Dynasty are very rich. According to the notes of Song people such as "Tokyo Chinese Dream" and "Wulin Old Stories", there are only noodle dishes in Kaifengfu in the Northern Song Dynasty and Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty, such as soft goat noodles, tung skin noodles, salt fried noodles, shredded chicken noodles, shredded pork noodles, three fresh noodles, Hu Die noodles, bamboo shoots noodles and shrimp skin noodles. Steamed bread includes mutton steamed bread, bamboo shoots steamed bread, fish steamed bread, crab steamed bread, sugar steamed bread, steamed bread, spinach steamed bread, and mixed color fried flower steamed bread. Sesame cakes include thousand-layer cakes, moon cakes, baked golden flower cakes, milk cakes, vegetable cakes, Hu cakes, cakes, lotus cakes, cooked meat pies, chrysanthemum cakes, plum cakes and sugar cakes. There are sugar cakes, flower cakes, honey cakes, cake cakes, bee sugar cakes, ice cream cakes, colored cakes, chestnut cakes, wheat cakes, bean cakes, steamed cakes and Chongyang cakes. There may not be so many items on the menu of five-star hotels now. Hotels in the Song Dynasty are also varied in levels, from food stalls catering to the needs of the lower class of the city to luxury hotels with high-end atmosphere. These hotels attract diners with rich dishes, and customers are not allowed to choose: if there are guests sitting, a person will ask them repeatedly with paper. Everyone is extravagant, shouting at all the destinations, hot or cold, warm or whole, or absolutely cold, fine pouring, fat pouring and so on. Everyone asks for different things ... In a short time, the vegetable farmer forks his left hand into three bowls, and his right arm folds about twenty bowls from hand to shoulder, which is not allowed to make mistakes. " It means that as soon as you enter the restaurant, someone will greet you to sit down and write food. Please help yourself. The food will be served right away. It can be said that Kaifeng and Hangzhou in the Song Dynasty were simply paradise for eating goods. Say "drink" again. We are used to drinking some drinks today. People in the Song Dynasty also had drinks called boiled water and cold water. "Boiled water" is equivalent to today's Cantonese herbal tea. The common boiled water is fragrant flowers, agarwood, perilla and cardamom. People in the Song Dynasty liked drinking very much, and of course there were all kinds of drinks on the market. "Dream of China in Tokyo" said that in June, people peddled "ice and snow cold water litchi paste" on the streets of Lane Strangers and Bianliang Bridge Gate, all of which used green cloth umbrellas to build beds and stools on the streets. There is the most abundant ice and snow outside the old Song Dynasty, so silverware is used. "Old Stories of Wulin" also records all kinds of cold water sold in Hangzhou: "Sweet bean soup, coconut wine, bean water, deer pear pulp, stewed plum water, ginger honey water, papaya juice, tea, heavy fragrance, litchi paste water, bitter water, kumquat ball, snow bubble and spleen-shrinking drink, Mei Huajiu, Xiangzi drink, Wuling Dashun powder and perilla. It's nice to drink a bowl of cold water in hot summer. Say "play" again. There are many common tools and methods of "playing" in Song Dynasty. Let's talk about a desktop game. The table games that Song people often played in their leisure time included chess, gobang, vault, Ye Zixi and so on. China's chess developed to the Song Dynasty, and it was basically stereotyped, and "cannon" appeared; "Double land", similar to today's flying chess, prevailed in the streets of Song Dynasty. The play of "Beating Horse" is similar to that of "Been Earth", but it may be more complicated. Li Qingzhao, a famous poetess, is a master of "beating horses". The more interesting board game is Yezixi, a card game. According to the records of the Ming Dynasty, Ye Xixi had 40 cards in four colors. They are 100000, 100000, 1000, 100,100,100,100. After long-term improvement and evolution, it has finally become today's playing cards. However, in China, "Ye Zi Opera" evolved in another direction and became a "horse hanging", which is today's mahjong. From this point of view, Chinese mahjong and western poker are different in form and play, but after investigation, they are in the same strain and both originated from the "Ye Zi Opera" in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Finally, let's talk about the "music" of people in the Song Dynasty. The entertainment life of Song people is also quite colorful. They can go to Washe Goulan to watch all kinds of entertainment performances. The so-called washe was the entertainment center of the city in Song Dynasty. The so-called Goulan is the music shed located in the tile house. In goulan, zaju and history lectures, puppet shows, shadow plays, acrobatics and other programs are staged day and night. In addition to Goulan, there are many drugs in the tile house, such as selling divination, drinking old clothes (selling old clothes), exploring blogs (gambling), eating, shaving, paper-cutting and painting, making music, etc. It's really lively. Therefore, regardless of winter and summer, regardless of wind and rain, there are performances in Washe Goulan every day. "Don't meet people by storm, but by shed, every day"; Before you know it, the day has passed. "I live here all day and I don't feel anything." In addition to the Washe Goulan, artists also went to various lively places in the Song Dynasty to perform various programs, such as blowing bombs, dancing, zaju, juggling, winning flowers (magic), clay pills, drums, throwing pots, playing with flowers, cuju, distributing tea, making water and stepping on miscellaneous trees (acrobatics). Watching these entertainment programs is enough for you to kill a day.