For the first time, the people of Hangzhou had a comic strip, and Kangxi Qianlong made several southern tours... Those fates that come with the water

From the time when Dayu divided Kyushu

It is destined that Hangzhou is a city that has never been lonely

In this part of jiangnan water town

The prince will rebuke fangs

Literati inkers chant elegance

Merchant brokers are busy

Hangzhou is in contact with other cities

What makes today's Baiwei Fusion

Let's ride the river of years

Enter the "circle of friends" in Hangzhou

《Qiantang Circle of Friends》

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About the Author

Li Kesal was born in 1996 in Mianyang, Sichuan. Full-time writer of Koala Look At the Research Center for History and Culture, chief writer of Chengdu Humanities Platform "Rong Drift". Focus on the study of philosophical history and be faithful to writing texts with temperature.

Zhang Yi was born in 1985 in Kai County, Chongqing. Koala Look At the Center for Historical and Cultural Studies signed writer, columnist. Co-authored "Courageous Agitation - Chu Shijian Biography".

For the first time, hangzhou people had comic strips

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In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Hangzhou had developed into an economically prosperous metropolis. With the continuous improvement of living standards, the consumption concept of Hangzhou people at that time also changed. In addition to food and clothing, he began to pursue spiritual consumption such as culture and entertainment, which also led to the emergence of novels, dramas, and scripts.

However, most of the books on the surface of Hangzhou are printed in one color, and it is inevitable to feel monotonous after reading for a long time, and Ling Mengchu, a literati from Huzhou, has changed all this. He improved his printing technology, printed a color overprint, loaded it into a ship and sold it in Hangzhou, and seized the Hangzhou market in one fell swoop. The book reads:

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Ling Mengchu led the family to improve the printing technology, researched a multi-page multi-page fractional printing technology, and printed exquisite vermilion, three-color, four-color, and five-color overprints. He also specially printed many operas and novels. Ling Mengchu himself was also writing a script, and he also engraved these books he had written in sets.

After these books were printed, Ling Mengchu was transported to Hangzhou for sale on a ship. He thought that there are many people in Hangzhou, and there must be more people buying books. The book printed in this set of my own is so exquisite that it is bound to sell well.

Unexpectedly, Ling Mengchu's chromatic printing books came out, "no matter rich or poor, good or ugly, coveted to buy", and seized the Hangzhou market in one fell swoop. It had only been three days, and the boat of books that Ling Mengchu had brought from home had sold almost as well, and he was happily preparing to leave for Huzhou.

Because Ling Mengchu's cover-plate printing books sold too well, robbing other booksellers in Hangzhou of their business, they sought ling meng's first-time learning of overprint printing technology. Under the leadership of Ling Mengchu, Huzhou overprinted books sprung up like mushrooms and became more and more exquisite. Later, almost all the books sold in Hangzhou were engraved by Huzhou overprint printing technology.

It can be seen that the cultural prosperity of Hangzhou is inseparable from the progress of the times, and it is also inseparable from the advancement of businessmen.

A ties tie the north-south bond

Beijing and Hangzhou, the two cities in the layout of the formation of a south and a north staggered prosperous city. Tracing the history, thanks to the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The canal is like a link, connecting the north and the south.

Location map of the Grand Canal region of China

During the Yuan Dynasty, Beijing was called Dadu and was the capital of a dynasty. Hangzhou, which was once the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, is the largest commercial center in the south at this time, and Chinese and foreign goods need to be transferred here to Dadu, and the relationship between Hangzhou and Beijing is getting closer and closer, and the article mentions a data:

In order to better transport the products of the Jiangnan region to Dadu, a large number of stations were built from Dadu to Hangzhou for the rest of officials and the daily transfer of goods. According to statistics, the frequency of transporting Hangzhou raw silk to Dadu by horse-drawn carriage and pack horse every day is not less than a thousand times.

During the Qing Dynasty, Hangzhou was more like the back garden of Beijing. The two emperors, Kangxi and Qianlong, came to Hangzhou many times to inspect and inspect, which also made Hangzhou officially synonymous with Jiangnan water towns.

On the twelfth day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1762), Qianlong made his third southern tour, which coincided with the outbreak of flooding on the Yellow River. When the disaster area was affected, he ordered funds to be allocated for disaster relief and directed local officials to rush to repair it. When he came to Hangzhou to inspect, he inevitably paid more attention to the surrounding canals and sea ponds, and the book wrote:

The first thing he did when he arrived in Haining (present-day Haining, Zhejiang) was to check the pond, and as expected, many of the rivers had safety hazards. He then ordered the men to repair the firewood pond around the old salt barn at once. This pond has a radius of more than 100 miles, the local funds are limited, unable to afford, Qianlong will pay for maintenance, and when he leaves, he will also allocate another amount of money for future maintenance.

Frequent royal activities have made Beijing's contacts with Hangzhou more intense. Whether it was the commercial and trade exchanges between the south and the north during the Yuan Dynasty, or the many southern tours of Kangxi and Qianlong during the Qing Dynasty, they all promoted the people-to-people exchanges between the two places from all aspects and created a prosperous pattern of one south and one north. To this day, the familiar north-south exchanges and collisions are still staged every day.

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Hangzhou Excellent Traditional Culture Series

"Hangzhou Excellent Traditional Culture Series" is a set of popular reading materials aimed at inheriting the historical context of the city and promoting excellent traditional culture, adhering to the principle of "storytelling, light reading, and easy dissemination", and fully presenting the characteristics of the times, the characteristics of the whole region, the characteristics of the story, and the characteristics of openness.

The whole series of books includes a monograph and ten series of more than 100 books, covering urban history culture, landscape culture, celebrity culture, relic culture, dictionary culture, art culture, craft culture, living culture, custom culture, ideological culture and other aspects, which are both comprehensive displays and highlights.

In order to attract more readers, especially young audiences, the series of books has changed the customary practice of taking literary and historical experts as the main authors, invited writers from inside and outside the province to serve as the main creative team, organized literary and historical experts and literary and art critics to check and improve, carried excellent traditional culture with rich historical stories, and contained excellent cultural ideas with delicate dialogues and plots.