With the advancement of technology, our leisure time now has a lot of entertainment activities for our recreation, and it is no longer like when we were children, except to watch TV or watch TV. Advanced devices such as mobile phones and computers have been seen everywhere, and many people are even addicted to games. However, I don't know if you have ever thought that we have these entertainment tools because of advanced technology, so when there was no network and no electronic products in ancient times, what would the ancients do if they were bored?
In fact, the ancients did not have so many ways of playing, but they still have some entertainment methods that do not require advanced technology. Take the Song Dynasty as an example, the predecessor of modern football, Keju, originated in the Song Dynasty, and everyone knows how good the ancients were at playing. At that time, Keju was very popular in the circles of princes and nobles, and was a symbol of the rich, especially Emperor Huizong of Song, who especially liked the sport.
In addition to keju, "hammer balls" are also an important pastime. Keju is kicked with the foot, and the hammer ball is hammered by hand, which is to play a ball object from the perspective of the form of movement, which is more like modern golf ball. If it is not said that the Song Dynasty was an era of cultural and economic development, our current movement was already tired of the ancients at that time.
After talking about sports, it is time to talk about the daily life and rest of the Song Dynasty people. When they get up in the morning, they also love to be clean, and they generally wash their faces first and then brush their teeth, which is exactly the same as our modern people. After men finish doing this, they basically eat a meal and then go to work to earn money, while women with better families will run to the room to dress themselves. Don't look down on the lives of the ancients because of the backwardness of ancient science and technology, from here, it is basically the same as we are now.
When the Song Dynasty people arrived at the market, there would be many vendors here, people from the south and the north of the sky, selling this and selling everything. There will also be a bunch of tea house restaurants on both sides of the street, and there may not be many mountain treasures and seafood, but the home-cooked meat and vegetarian dishes that the general public can afford to consume are still available, and they can eat whatever they want. Girls love to visit jewelry shops, rouge gouache and satin houses are also very diverse, which makes people overwhelmed. For some intellectuals who have read books, they prefer to buy a newspaper at this time, you know, at that time, the people have already found business opportunities to sell newspapers.
At night, the night market of the Song Dynasty is even more lively. Although many dynasties in ancient times imposed curfews, the Song Dynasty was an exception. Choose from a variety of delicious snacks on the side of the road, there will be summer desserts, a bustling night market, and even a green house. You can imagine this scene, is it no different from our current pedestrian street and the like? Except for the Qinglou, everything else is the same. However, don't think about it, the Qinglou mentioned here is not the kind of illegal Qinglou, and the entertainment and entertainment inside are very elegant. Most of them are a group of women who meet with poetry, appreciate literature and play the piano, and so on, and generally literati and scholars will patronize the Qinglou. For the so-called wind and snow moon, many literati will go in and out of the Qinglou land, sometimes for the sake of chanting poems to find inspiration.
I have to say that the life of the Song Dynasty people was indeed quite happy. All along, our impression of the Song Dynasty always feels that this dynasty is very weak. The military strength of the Song Dynasty was indeed not good, and the rulers did not dare to develop the army too much because of their "yellow robes and bodies", but instead suppressed the development of military strength, which also led to the later Song Dynasty being unable to negotiate peace when it encountered a war. However, it is precisely because of the emphasis on literature and the suppression of martial arts that the economic and cultural development of the Song Dynasty has reached an unprecedented peak, and the daily life and entertainment methods of the people are colorful, and the happiness index is quite high, which can only be said to have advantages and disadvantages.