Pursuing a Different Life in the Song and Jin Dynasties

What was the experience of living in the Song Dynasty? Kaifeng is also a city that never sleeps, and there is no longer a strict law of sharing food. People began to eat three meals a day instead of two meals a day. At that time, the essence of Chinese cuisine, frying and frying, became popular, and there was hot pot at that time! The description of the Song Dynasty in the history textbooks of liberal arts tends to give people an impression that the Song Dynasty is so weak that it is always rubbed on the ground by nomadic people. The ruling system is complicated and redundant, which needs to spend a lot of fiscal revenue. In addition, people always have to send old coins to nomadic people, and people's living standards are particularly bitter. Not to mention that Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism, which harmed human nature, originated in the Song Dynasty.

This documentary focuses on the economic level and cultural level of the Song Dynasty, which makes me understand this dynasty from another angle. The economy is developed, the transportation is convenient, the educational level and hygiene habits are very advanced in the past dynasties, and the rulers are relatively diligent and open-minded. A "Pursuing a Different Life in the Song and Jin Dynasties" seems to have witnessed that prosperous and colorful era. Based on Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty, this documentary reveals the close relationship between customs and culture in the Northern Song Dynasty and modern life through the interpretation of food, urban planning, economic development and cultural entertainment.

Pursuing a Different Life in the Song and Jin Dynasties is a documentary about the customs and history of the Song Dynasty, which consists of four episodes, each of which is 25 minutes, namely, Dish Soup Fu, History of the Old City, Fu Jia Jing and Lyrics of the Worldly. Director Zhang Xinyin presented Kaifeng's history and culture to the audience in a vivid way through on-the-spot shooting, scene reproduction and three-dimensional animation. The audio-visual language and lively narrative style in the documentary make the whole clip more attractive and readable. In the process of watching the documentary, I not only learned about the Northern Song Dynasty, but also felt the power of China's wisdom and national self-confidence.

The Southern Song Dynasty

I like the sentence "The Southern Song Dynasty refers not only to the imperial court but to this era", and regards the Southern Song Dynasty as an era, not a dynasty. Its literati's interest, elegant life interest and extreme art are the spiritual food left by the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Southern Song Dynasty used economic and cultural science to correct the prejudice of the weak Song Dynasty in the hearts of the public, and showed the rich life of the common people in the Song Dynasty. There are many angles of presentation. The three episodes of Lin 'an Menghua, Song Painting Jiangshan, and Xiwen Nanbei are very effective, and the Xiwen Nanbei episode is particularly amazing. Watching this documentary, I was shocked by the economic prosperity in the Southern Song Dynasty. It reveals a prosperous dynasty and shows the elegant social life mode of people in that era. Through careful shooting and low-key romantic narrative, the documentary will show the civilization of the Southern Song Dynasty to the audience.

For the scholar-officials who insisted on the southeast-oriented "orthodox culture", Zhao Gou's favor was not only the evidence that Jiangsu and Zhejiang gained the legitimacy of China, but also the final chapter of the magnificent historical drama of "the economic center shifted to the south". Zhejiang Satellite TV, who filmed this documentary, obviously adhered to this view. While quoting experts to praise the Southern Song Dynasty, it also insinuated the weakness of this exiled group in treating the Northern Court and defended the numbness of the grand narrative of recovering the Central Plains. "Southern Song Dynasty" gave me a chance to realize the civilization of the Song Dynasty that disappeared from the vision of modern people. Documentary truly restored the historical background, cultural customs and worldly wisdom of the Southern Song Dynasty, and let me know this history more deeply. After watching it, I got a deeper understanding of China's feudal history, and enhanced my self-cultivation in cultural details.

This documentary * * * has seven episodes, which objectively and truly reflects the economic prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty, and its shooting technique is romantic and low-key. The themes are Looking at the Central Plains from afar, Lin 'an Dreaming of China, Poetry Valley, Song Painting Hometown, North and South Opera, Invention Times and Looking Back at the Future. In addition to street life, it also introduces a lot of culture-related contents, which profoundly reflects how the people in the street really lived as the most prosperous dynasty of folk culture.