The big players of ancient times

Nowadays, mobile phones and computers have become people's daily necessities. So, if we travel back to ancient times, in ancient times without any electronic products, wouldn't we be bored to the extreme? It's really not, the entertainment methods of the ancients are much richer than you think.

Rich and idle, only to become a veteran player

To be fair, the entertainment life of ancient people cannot be said to be richer than that of modern people, but compared with modern urban office workers, there is one advantage that modern people cannot reach, that is, leisure.

But the idle people in the countryside and the idlers on the streets of the city are not considered to be able to play. Because they still lack a necessary condition, that is, there is money. Rich and idle, it is the rich and idle people, is the ideal life that Jia Baoyu yearns for. A male brother like Jia Baoyu, rich and noble, has reached the extreme, so there is no need to seek any meritorious name after ten years of cold window. If you don't find some entertainment, it's really hard to pass the time.

The most playful person in history is Zhang Dai at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Dai's "Self-made Epitaph" written in his later years completed all the entertainment activities in his life: "Little for the poor children, I love prosperity." Good house, good maid, good child, good fresh clothes, good food, good horse, good lantern, good fireworks, good pear garden, good trumpet, good antiques, good flowers and birds, tea and orange abuse, bookworm poetry magic..."

Zhang Dai's hobbies look no different from those stupid children. But what Zhang Dai is great about is that each hobby is particularly in-depth, which is very valuable. For example, when you visit the West Lake, others are renting a small boat to play, or like Mr. Ma Er in "The History of Ru Lin", walk around the West Lake, eat and drink and then go to Shangxiang, and stop by to see the beauty. But zhang dai played too much after all, so he didn't look at such a low-end game. He had to wait for the west lake to snow and go to the lake pavilion to see the snow.

Such behavior is stupid in the eyes of others. But Zhang Dai can also justify himself, he believes: "People have no habits and cannot have intercourse, and they have no affection." "Yes, a person doesn't love anything, what's the point of being alive?"

Zhang Dai's words were used to evaluate his friend Qi Zhixiang. As a veteran player, Qi Zhixiang not only loves calligraphy and painting, but also loves to play musical instruments, but his biggest hobby is to raise children. Today this is definitely illegal, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was really common, and the rich brothers loved this, including Zhang Dai. But Qi Zhixiang raised true feelings, wives and children can not be, but child prostitution is inseparable, the habit is so deep.

Zhang Dai's proclivities may not be as good as his good friend, but Zhang Dai's great strength lies in the fact that he is good at writing and can write down new things. In "Tao An Dream Memories", Zhang Dai wrote a lot of entertainment activities at that time, all wonderful. For example, go to listen to Liu Jingting talk about books, saying that although Liu Mazi looks ugly, he speaks skillfully and has wonderful eyes, which is as tempting as Wang Yuesheng, a famous prostitute in Nanjing. Zhang Dai and Wang Yuesheng are also old acquaintances, and they also wrote one for her. Although Wang Yuesheng was an unpopular prostitute, she was unprecedentedly beautiful. Her favorite entertainment is to drink tea, to drink tea at the home of veteran tea friend Min Laozi, rain or shine. If there is an invitation to the banquet, she will also go to drink a few pots of tea before she is willing to go over.

Min Laozi also played tea to the extreme. The water for drinking tea should be taken from Wuxi Huiquan, and before taking the water, the new well should be dug, and then wait for the new spring to gush out in the quiet night. But Zhang Dai wrote him entirely to set off his ability to taste tea. The two of them did not know each other, but they were both tea lovers, because they knew each other, they hated each other late, and they became friends for the new year.

After drinking wine and putting on a cannonball, it is also not happy

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the commodity economy in jiangnan was unprecedentedly prosperous, which also gave birth to Zhang Dai, who was particularly good at playing. In addition, at that time, everyone loved to write various notes, so they recorded the entertainment activities that were renovated at that time.

Shen Fu and Yunniang in "Six Notes of Floating Life" can also play. Originally, Yunniang, as a bridesmaid for everyone, was not good to go out and show her face. Once, after Shen Fu was invited by a friend to watch the grand ceremony of the birth of the god of Taihu Lake, in order to appease Chen Yun's regret that "the concubine is not a man, you can't go to it", he let Yunniang dress up as a man to swim with him at night at the Narcissus Temple.

Another time, Shen Fu went with a friend to admire the rape flowers, wanting to see the flowers while drinking hot wine and hot tea. Yunniang came up with the idea and asked Shen Fu to hire a wonton stall to go with her. In this way, there is a stove, you can warm the wine, you can sencha. But this time, Yunniang couldn't follow, after all, it was daylight.

Therefore, Du Shaoqing in "The History of Ru Lin" was drunk, carrying his wife in one hand and a golden cup in the other, and walked for more than a mile on Qingliangshan Gangzi, which would make passers-by dazzled and dare not look up.

The good family women of that era, the entertainment activities were still limited to indoors, nothing more than those mentioned in "Dream of the Red Chamber", drums and pianos, burning incense, playing with flowers and making the moon. Powerful women can also write novels to pass the time, especially in the Qing Dynasty, which gave birth to a large number of female bullet words, the most famous of which is Chen Duansheng's "Regeneration Edge". Interestingly, these bullets are very similar to today's online novels, and the authors are young women, all of whom are entertaining themselves.

Of course, bardding was the most important form of entertainment in ancient times, which is actually quite interesting. For example, Jiang Tan's "Autumn Lantern Trivia" wrote that his wife Qiu Fu planted plantains in the yard, and the leaves were shady, but the autumn rain was very noisy when it dripped on the banana leaves, so he wrote a sentence on the leaves: "Whoever plants plantains in a lot of things, early and xiaoxiao, late also Xiaoxiao." The next day he suddenly found another poem on the leaf: "It is Jun's mood that is too boring, planting plantains, and complaining about plantains." "Apparently Qiu Fu wrote it.

In the end, basho is not good, and it really depends on people. For example, Jin Shengsi, he pulled up all the weeping begonias and bauhinia trees in front of the study and planted more than ten plantains, and he felt that it was really "not fast" to finish this.

Jin Shengsi listed thirty-three things that made him "unhappy", giving people a glimpse of the entertainment life of this strange man in the literary world. For example, on a spring night, he drank with a few friends, and when he was half drunk, someone sent a dozen cannonballs, and these drinking friends got up and left the table and went out to set off the cannons. Jin Sheng sighed and described: "The fragrance of sulfur, from the nose to the brain, the whole body is pleasant, not also fast!" A poor intellectual like Jin Shengsi naturally could not learn from Zhang Dai to delve into those high-end hobbies. For him, cutting a watermelon, taking a shower, and raining heavily are all "fast" entertainment. Even reading books is said to be particularly funny. For example, he went to visit a friend, and the friend was reading a book, and when he saw him coming, he pulled on his sleeve and made him sit down, saying, "You are coming, come and read this book together." Then the two of them read together until it was dark and forgot to eat.