Recently, "when the Qingming Upper River Map was cut into memes" became a hot topic, netizens played their imagination to show their magic, and intercepted many interesting scenes from this famous Northern Song Dynasty custom painting, accompanied by amazing text. Get a feel for it:
Meme image from /@Taro Wow
The Song Dynasty was indeed a dynasty that fascinated many people. In the Song Dynasty, you could either watch plays and listen to music in the "Washi Hook Bar", or fill in the words and chants by the "Jinming Pondside", or "Zhouqiao Night Market Sencha Bucket Pulp"... This dynasty, the popularity of literature and fireworks are equally important, prosperous and open, vivid and vivid.
The Song Dynasty on the tip of the tongue
The prosperity of the Song Dynasty's diet can be seen from the "Qingming River Map" alone, and the Song Dynasty Elder Meng Yuanlao also recorded in the book "Tokyo Dream Hualu": "Everywhere there are doors, there are tea houses and hotels, and there are wanton eating." "If you want to shoot a "Song Dynasty on the Tip of the Tongue", then Su Dongpo must be one of the protagonists, he loves to eat, knows how to eat, can eat, and wrote nearly fifty poems related to eating in his lifetime, which can be described as the representative of the "god-level foodie" of the Song Dynasty.
Literary and artistic people often like to say: "The taste of the world is pure joy." Su Dongpo's poem sounds so otherworldly that many people who like to quote this sentence automatically ignore the previous sentence. What's going on here? Talk about eating. "Snow foam milk flower floating noon cup, artemisia annua shoots try spring plate." The taste of the world is pure joy. ”
Therefore, this "Qinghuan" is based on "eating", not pure metaphysics.
Emperor Huizong of Song Zhao's "Wenhui Diagram" (partial)
Su Dongpo's taste of Qinghuan is due to his open personality. But for him, his favorite thing to eat is meat. Once, his eyes hurt, the doctor told him not to eat meat, he immediately went deep into the role to interpret what is called "the birth of an actor": eye pain can not eat meat, but my mouth is not painful, why not let me eat meat? No way! ("The remnants of the affliction are angry, or inedible.") Yu wants to hear it, but his mouth cannot, he knows: I am with the Son as the mouth, he and the Son are the eyes, how thick is he, how thin am I? For the sake of the afflictions of the other shall not eat me. "The Son of The Red Eye")
More famous is the story of his desperate fight to eat puffer fish. When Su Dongpo lived in Changzhou, a scholar invited him to taste puffer fish at home, wanting to hear how Su Dongpo expressed his feelings after eating, but only to see Su Shi buried his head in food, completely did not like, the family was a little disappointed, suddenly heard Su Dongpo loudly said: "It is also worth dying!" "Look, real foodies have such a fighting spirit of "sacrificing their lives" in order to eat! (Highlighted reminder: eating puffer fish must be handled properly!) ）
"Durian Yellow Bird Diagram" (partial)
As a real foodie, Su Dongpo is happy to eat all the way even if he is degraded.
Degraded by Huangzhou, the first thing he shows is the essence of foodie: "Laughing at one's life is busy with the mouth, and the old career turns absurd." The Yangtze River goes around Guo Zhiyu is beautiful, and the good bamboo and mountains feel the fragrance of bamboo shoots. ("First Arrived in Huangzhou") also creatively developed pork into a delicious dish, becoming the "Dongpo meat" that has remained famous throughout the ages.
In Huizhou, he praised lychees, "three hundred lychees a day, and he did not hesitate to be a Lingnanian." ("Huizhou A Must")
In Hainan, he loved oysters, and even wrote to his son: Son, Dad has found something delicious! Don't tell the scholars and doctors in the court that if they all come to eat, it will not be good. ("Oysters and beauty, Yishu Uncle Dang: No order of the Chinese courtiers to know, fear of contending to migrate south, in order to share this taste.") "Dongpo Hainan Oyster"
"Zhao Tu of the Departed Branch" (partial)
Eating is one of the most beautiful parts of his life for him, and according to research, Su Dongpo wrote nearly fifty poems related to eating in his lifetime. In these majestic or bold poems, the foods that have been exposed in the face of ming dangling or "dark rubbing" are: lychee, longan, peach, pear, jujube, peach, pomegranate, yellow mandarin, pufferfish, crucian carp, perch, pork, sheep scorpion, rabbit...
When foodies reach this realm, who can not say "absolutely"!
Author/Sun Jun
Article from /"Guangzhou Daily" Selected articles have been deleted
The literati were the loveliest part of the Song Dynasty
The Song Dynasty was a rare era of "heavy literature and light martial arts" in ancient Chinese history, and it was also a "golden age" of literati, Su Shi, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Xin Qiyi, Huang Tingjian, Li Qingzhao... Even the emperors of the Song Dynasty, Song Huizong and Song Gaozong, had extremely high achievements in art. The cuteness of the literati of the Song Dynasty, in addition to the literary and artistic achievements, is more important than their leisurely elegance and sincerity.
Probably my favorite Chinese intellectuals were in the Northern Song Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu and Wang Anshi can all move forward and backward because they have a perfect demand for personality. They do not do it for anyone, but because of their own ideals, so they are very clear about the distinction between being an official and not being an official.
Xia Gui's "Snow Hall Guest Talk Map" (Partial)
Su Dongpo will not do anything because he was sent down, he was relegated to Lingnan, he felt that the lychees there were delicious, so he wrote a foreign article to tell people how delicious the lychees were. This means that he doesn't live entirely for politics, and he has other things to do.
I think these are the loveliest parts of the Song Dynasty. It is not like the Tang Dynasty, where everything has to be big, while the Song Dynasty can be small. He can happily write about a small event in life, a little experience. Majesty is a kind of beauty, and being small is also a kind of beauty, and no one prescribes that majestic beauty affects tiny beauty.
Song Huizong Zhao Tuo's "Listening to the QinTu" (partial)
On the "Solid Map of Grass Worms and Melons" collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei, a melon is painted, and there is a leaf on the melon, and there is a very small grasshopper on the leaf, which makes people feel that the life of a small insect is also a kind of beauty. The Song Dynasty literati let you see "small"; there are not many "small" things in Tang poetry, and they are all "desert smoke straight, the long river sunset circle", and when you see the "long river sunset circle", you may not be able to see insects.
Why do I like the intellectuals of the Northern Song Dynasty? Because I think the intellectuals of the Northern Song Dynasty are the most human-like. This statement is a bit strange, of course, intellectuals are all people, but in history, intellectuals have had a hard time being themselves, but they have been distorted in culture, especially in the regime, and they will not come back after being distorted. However, the intellectuals of the Song Dynasty could come back to be themselves, and this release of self made the Song Dynasty produce a kind of "plain innocence" in the creation of culture, that is, not to be contrived, not to be deliberate, and to act arbitrarily.
《Grass Worm Melon Solid Map》
If you go to the National Palace in Taipei and see the "Cold Food Post", you will find that the Song Dynasty people definitely do not write letters like the Tang Dynasty people, he can be free, write a typo a little, and then change it. No one stipulates that there can be no typos in great calligraphy, so why should I write it again? Will the mistakes in life be so embarrassing for others to see? If this word is wrong, just circle it and add another word next to it, which appears in calligraphy. The calligraphy of Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian has traces of alterations, and the aesthetics of calligraphy have changed from an official and very formal specification to an expression of temperament.
That is to say, the so-called art is to see the true disposition of people, what is what is, do not cover it up.
Author/Jiang Xun
Wen Zi / "Jiang Xun Says Song Ci" CITIC Publishing House Selected articles have been deleted
The greatest charm of the Song Dynasty
Some people admire the bones of the Great Han Dynasty, some people yearn for the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, some people appreciate the hermit temperament of Wei and Jin, and some people are full of good feelings about the hundred schools of contention in the Spring and Autumn Warring States... But if asked: If you can choose, which dynasty would you most like to go back to in ancient China? The Song Dynasty is definitely a high-frequency answer. Why does it have such a great charm, still calling us far away after a thousand years?
For those who are accustomed to modern life, returning to the Song Dynasty should smell a hint of familiarity. There are a variety of cuisines, there is a city that never curfews, there is endless entertainment, there are convenient and fast services, there are rich and exquisite material culture and artistic pursuits... Perhaps the details will be different, but there is no doubt that the living conditions of the people of the Song Dynasty are closest to the feelings of modern people.
Therefore, some people have been saying that the Song Dynasty was an era with a very modern temperament, which does not refer to political structure or science and technology, but to the quality of the matter of "living".
Ma Yuan's "Solo Fishing map of the Han River" (partial)
Why live? How to live better?
These two issues have permeated the entire period of development of human civilization. Wu Hook said in the book "Living in the Song Dynasty": "What is 'civilization achievement'? I think that 'civilization achievements' do not mean that the territory is particularly vast, not that the battlefield kills the enemy like a hemp, that it does not flaunt the prestige of our country in a foreign land, and that it is not a dynasty of all nations. In my mind, the "achievement of civilization" refers to being politically enlightened; being more relaxed in society; being more prosperous in the economy; and having a richer life. ”
I love this passage, it is apt interpretation of the charm of the Song Dynasty that distinguishes it from other dynasties.
Author/Ma Boyong
Wen Zi/"Living in the Song Dynasty" Preface Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Selected articles have been abridged
Text/CCTV News Reorganization
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