Take Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty as an example. From the Xuande Gate of the Inner City Palace, it is the Imperial Street. The Imperial Street between Xuandemen and Qiao Zhou is 200 steps wide, with royal corridors on both sides, which leads to Zhenghe, Song Huizong (11165438). There are many soup shops, tea shops, restaurants and fragrant medicine shops in the west, which also extend to Zhuquemen and become a food street. Crossing the bridge from Zhuquemen, West Street, also called Quyuan Street, is in the south of the street, where there is Yuxianzheng Store, and in the north there are Xuejia Tea Store, Mutton Rice Store and Cooked Mutton Store. If you continue to the west, you will find a prostitute's house.
Apart from the bustling Imperial Street, Qiao Zhou is also an east-west commercial street: in the east, there are "fish market, meat market, gold and silver shop, colorful silk shop, lacquer shop and all kinds of things", and in the west, there are "bead shop, fruit shop and so on". , colorful, bizarre. " In addition, there are professional markets such as Xingjie Ma, Niuxing Street and Donghuamen Street, which are very lively.
Walking in these streets, it can be said that there are many wonders and many competitions. Whether you want to go shopping, have tea or have fun, you can find a place. Wandering for a day, the sun is setting and it's getting late. There is no need to rush home, let alone be afraid of "making a night", because the Tokyo nightlife of Dasong has just begun. As long as you don't go out of town, you can play as you want.
This is the most prosperous night market in Qiao Zhou. Walking in the street, there are food stalls everywhere: rice, boiled meat, dried bacon, bacon, eel buns, chicken skin and kidney, as well as sheep's stir-fried white sausage, frozen fish head, dirty red silk, batch-cut sheep's head, spicy feet, ginger and spicy radish and so on. It makes people's appetite open. In summer, you can taste cool sugar, ice and snow, cold Zi Yuan, crystal soap, raw papaya ... In winter, you can also eat rabbits, pigskin, duck meat and fried clips on the plate ... These are all called "miscellaneous chewing" and are the most distinctive snacks in the Song Dynasty. It has been sold until midnight, and if you don't eat it, you can eat it all night.
After eating and drinking enough, you can go to Quyuan Street in Zhuquemen, or go to places like Zhu Zhu Lane, Dongxiji Lane, Zhongwa and Liwa. These places are places of entertainment, holy places for recreation and paradise for night owls. It is definitely a pleasing and lingering existence.
When I woke up from a hangover, I just opened my eyes. Before dawn, the street became lively again: the lights were on in the teahouse, and vendors selling clothes, calligraphy and painting, precious toys and all kinds of breakfast went out one after another. It turned out that the morning market of the day-"Ghost Market" started again.
Even in the Southern Song Dynasty, such a night life would not be interrupted, or even better. The night market in Lin 'an is usually open from dark to the fourth watch, and it often opens soon after the morning market of the fifth watch is over. Some bustling local shops even stay up all night.
It is true that there are strikes every night, and they are everywhere. As long as there is no shortage of money, wherever you go in Dasong, it is paradise.