In recent years, countless national tide brands have poured into people's eyes. Han elements, The Tang Dynasty, the Great Song Civilization, the ancient history of the mainland has become the darling of the fashion industry.
But, putting aside the national tide, do we really understand the traditional Chinese elements?
Take a look at these books, maybe you'll get something new!
A Guide to Tang Dynasty Settlement
Forest Deer / Beijing United Publishing Company / 2014
The Tang Dynasty Settlement Guide is a companion piece to the Tang Dynasty Traversal Guide. With a simple and humorous tone, it introduces the Tang people's clothing, food, housing, travel, language, entertainment, religion, festivals, social systems and other aspects, starting from the details, showing the social picture of the Tang Dynasty (mainly Chang'an in the early Tang Dynasty). This is not a crossover novel, the "crossing" in the title of the book, because the author's original intention in writing this book is to endure the historical details that are full of errors in the popular ancient crossing dramas, with the ironic meaning of "crossing guide".
The author assumes a situation in which readers, as modern people, would have seen with their own eyes what the real Tang life would have been like if they had traveled to the Tang Dynasty.
A large number of historical details provided in the text, derived from ancient books, excavated cultural relics, Dunhuang murals, as well as academic monographs and professional papers in the field, although the language is witty, but the ridicule is moderate, the quotations are based on the scriptures, the content is rigorous, and it is an excellent introductory reading in the history of Tang Dynasty customs.
It was also because the people of the Tang Dynasty played so many tricks when they went to the grave, only caring about pleasure, and making the Qingming Festival, which should have been sad and solemn, a little bit of righteousness, the imperial court at first felt that it was bad customs and customs, and once solemnly issued an edict to ban "cold food and go to the tomb for fun", but later found that it could not be controlled at all, and had to resign itself to it. ”
Song Dynasty meal
Li Kaizhou / Oriental Publishing House / 2014
The Song Dynasty was the dynasty with the most interest in life, and the most direct expression of life interest was in food. This book is a collection of columns by historical columnist Li Kaizhou in the Southern Metropolis Daily, in which the author incarnates as the protagonist and takes the reader through to the Song Dynasty, comparing the similarities and differences between ancient and modern times from the details of eating habits, types of food and the number of seats at the meal bureau.
How the dim sum came about, the composition of the imperial dining room, the emperor's appetizers, how the Song Dynasty people brushed their teeth after dinner, how much of their alcohol... Through words, how the Song Dynasty people ate and how to live, such as a three-dimensional picture in front of us, is a food journey, but also an index of the song Dynasty city life.
"The third is raw pickling. This way of eating is the most incredible, but in the Song Dynasty it was very popular and even the emperor's imperial banquet appeared raw pickled crabs. It doesn't matter if you pickle raw, the key is that after pickling, you have to eat it raw and cook it without cooking. ”
Great rivers and mountains can ride donkeys
Wang So / Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House / 2016
The people of the Song Dynasty loved music, wine, flowers, aromas, beauty, leisure, every folk festival, and wanted to spend every spring and autumn day happily...
As a popular song of the Song Dynasty, the Song lyrics are not a clear portrayal of the entire era. I do not think myself to dream that through the interpretation of Song Ci, people, and history, I can combine words, history, and events to help readers glimpse one of the social life of the Song Dynasty.
And what I most hope to express is the wind bone of the Song Dynasty scholars, the benevolent heart behind their poetry and wine, the iron shoulder morality under the wide robe and large sleeves, and the poetry and wine flow also cherish the world, and their daily elegance. I want to tell more people that Chinese has not always been immersed in quick success and roughness, we have really had a calm, flowing, refined and benevolent social life - although it also has many historical limitations, political flaws, and human nature.
"People who love to read do not release the scrolls, occasionally raise their heads, look at the outside world, sigh, feel that there is no good in the books, the roads in the world, there is no book in the country to walk." 」
Chang'anKe
Beiming Fish / Tianjin People's Publishing House / 2020
The greatest Poets of the Tang Dynasty, "Shi Sheng", "Shi Xian", "Shi Buddha", "Shi Mo"... Each has a thunderous name, and their works are already immortal classics. For them, the verse used to be used to show off their talents, exchange merits, and spread out their own life status and wealth. Poets came to Chang'an with dreams to become famous, become officials, buy houses, and even revitalize their homeland and become heroes of the times.
At that time, they were all young, they all had outstanding poetic talents, and the bright future seemed to be within reach. However, fate is the most rebellious and never easily satisfies people's hearts.
This book combines multiple elements such as history, biography, and poetry criticism, and can be said to be a poet's version of "When the Stars Of Mankind Shine". With eight stories, it connects the history of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline to demise, sees the times and destiny from the poet's eyes, and tells the dreams, difficulties and wanderings of young people in big cities.
Those immortal psalms come from their countless moments of joy and darkness. Through these stories, you may be able to reacquaint yourself with these poets and see people like us. In their questioning of themselves and their times, they see dignity, faith, love and compassion, the meaning of life.
At the age of thirty-two, Du Fu met the most valued friend of his life. For Du Fu, Li Bai was an alien descending from the sky, full of mysterious attraction. ”
Challenge the ancients for 100 days
Yunye / Youfeng 丨Beijing United Publishing Company / 2021
Abandon the boring explanation, immerse the whole text, and return to how to be a good salted fish in ancient times. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, how did the ancients who did not have the blessing of new technology live. They don't have the Internet and electronics, will life be boring? This article describes the daily life of the ancients from the perspective of contemporary people, including entertainment and leisure, poetry and song, festival culture, etc., presenting the three meals and four seasons of the ancients, and the free life.
Why did the ancients raise cats called "hiring cats"? What are there in the night markets of the ancients? Did the ancients also drink afternoon tea? A manual that completely analyzes the daily lives of the ancients. Walk into the Great Song Dynasty, into the era when the teenager was dressed in fresh clothes and angry horses, and sang and danced with his sleeves indulgently. Where our eyes can't reach, words can.
"Mo YuLe was the most popular clay doll in the Song Dynasty, a kind of doll made of clay, with a variety of shapes and lifelike shapes."
The twelfth hour of Chang'an
Ma Boyong / Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House / 2017
Tang Tianbao three years, January 14, Chang'an. The residents of the Tang Dynasty Imperial Capital did not know that when the brilliant lights of the Shangyuan Festival were lit, what awaited them would be a catastrophe that would swallow everything.
The Turks, the Wolf Guard, the kidnapping, the assassination, the blazing flames, the burning of the city, and the gears that destroyed Chang'an City had begun to turn. And the whole hope of saving Chang'an is only one one-eyed death row prisoner who is about to be beheaded and a short twelve hours...
"I have been a bad marshal in Chang'an City for nine years, and every day I deal with people like this, and every day I hear and see it, it is all this kind of life. To the dignitaries, these people are insignificant at all, and these things are even more commonplace, but for me, this is the living Chang'an City that has not been swallowed up by monsters. Around them, I feel alive. ”