Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter Sun Wen Liu Yuhan Song Hao
What exactly is "Song Yun culture"?
In recent years, discussions of the history, literature, art, and material civilization of the Song Dynasty have been hot. Film and television works with historical backgrounds in the Song Dynasty, such as "Qing Ping Le" and "Great Song Palace Words", have also attracted a lot of attention.

How to know the Song Dynasty? Qianjiang Evening News Invited a few friends, they are from famous scholars and senior publishers, they have reviewed, studied and even written works related to the Song Dynasty, look at their hearts "Song Yun Book List".
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1. Memories of the Imperial City of the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou Publishing House, 2017
The book consists of ten volumes.
"Festivals of the Year": This book gives a more comprehensive and meticulous description of the court and folk customs of the New Year festivals in Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, such as New Year's Day, Lantern Festival, Cold Food and Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang, Chinese New Year's Eve, etc., from which it can be seen that the fusion of Chinese northern and southern cultures and the quality of life of Hangzhou people at that time were worthy of the famous traveler Marco Polo of the Yuan Dynasty who said that Hangzhou was the most beautiful and noble city in the world at that time.
"Delicious Cuisine": After the Southern Song Dynasty set the capital of Hangzhou, the population of Hangzhou increased greatly, officials entered Beijing, bachelors went to the examination, businessmen and merchants came and went, and the number of mobile personnel from the south to the north was as many as 100,000 per day, which greatly promoted the prosperity of the catering industry, especially the development of high-end drinking and banqueting and the improvement of cooking skills, occupying a glorious page in the history of China's dietary development. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the food of Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, including tea, wine and other cultures.
"Song and Dance Opera": Lin'an City in the Southern Song Dynasty is a bustling city. The majestic palace, the buildings throughout the city, the wide and clean royal streets, and the all-night night market reveal the prosperity of Kyoto. With the increasing enrichment of material life, people have also created new demands for cultural life. The earliest theater in the city, the Washe Hook Bar, appeared, and various performing arts forms such as song and dance, acrobatics, southern opera, acrobatics, puppets, and shadow drama flourished. Various traditional customs and festivals have added a lot of cultural entertainment content, and the festival activities have become more colorful.
"Treasures in Porcelain": The Southern Song Dynasty official kiln is the official kiln for firing porcelain, and the porcelain making technology of the working people of the Han nationality during the Southern Song Dynasty has many creations and progresses. When the Southern Song Dynasty built the capital Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou), it established the Xiu NeiSi and the suburban altar kiln to produce special imperial products for the court, so it was called "Southern Song Dynasty Official Kiln". It inherited the legacy of Beijing and has continuously produced high-quality porcelain for more than 100 years, laying the reputation of the porcelain-making kingdom for China. For more than a thousand years, Song porcelain has been considered by the world to be the most artistic era. Through meticulous and skillful craftsmanship, it harmoniously unifies the smooth and concise shape and the glaze color contained in the essence, representing the highest level of Chinese porcelain production eight hundred years ago
"Capital City Prosperity": After the Southern Song Dynasty fixed the capital lin'an (now Hangzhou), it became the world's premier international metropolis at that time, integrating the three centers of national politics, economy and culture. Marco Polo called it "the largest and most prestigious city in the world". This book comprehensively introduces the bustling scene of Lin'an City, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, such as the construction of the city, including the Southern Song Dynasty Imperial City, the Taimiao Temple, the Altar, the Royal Street, the Royal Garden, the transportation of the capital, the industry and commerce of the capital, the culture and education of the capital, as well as the quality of life of the citizens and cultural exchanges at home and abroad.
"Majestic Imperial City": This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the imperial city of Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, including the Phoenix Mountain before the Southern Song Dynasty, the reasons and processes for the Southern Song Dynasty court to choose Phoenix Mountain as the Imperial City, the appearance of the Southern Song Dynasty Imperial City (the Beigong Wall crosses the Middle River, the Fire Brigade outside the East Palace Wall, the Royal Forest Army outside the West Palace Wall, the Face of the South Palace Wall), the interior view of the Southern Song Dynasty Imperial City (Zheng dynasty area, The Eastern Palace District, the Harem District, the Bachelor's Academy, the Inner Attendant Division, the Imperial City Division), and the work of the Southern Song Emperor (daily morning dynasty, nightly rotation, and three years of two major events), The emperor's life in the palace (the emperor's crown, the emperor's dining table, the emperor's house, the emperor's visit, the palace celebrations, the appointment of the empress)
"Emperors and Queens of The Dynasties": This book is one of the series of books "Memories of the Imperial City of the Southern Song Dynasty". This book introduces the process of the seven emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty, Song Gaozong, Song Xiaozong, Song Guangzong, Song Ningzong, Song Lizong, Song Duzong, and Song Gong Emperor, and their main deeds in history, and also introduces the family lineage of the four well-known historical figures in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, Empress Wu, Empress Li, Empress Yang, and Empress Xie, and their deeds in politics.
Tales of the Literati: Tales of Celebrities is one of the ten books in the Southern Song Dynasty Imperial City Memories series, edited by He Zhaoquan. This "Celebrity Story" selects celebrities who lived in the capital City of Lin'an during the Southern Song Dynasty, including politicians, military experts, and cultural celebrities, such as the powerful ministers Qin Jun, Han Nongxu, and Jia Xiangdao, the military generals Zhang Jun, Yue Fei, and Han Shizhong, and the cultural celebrities Lu You, Yang Wanli, Fan Chengda, Zhu Xi, and Li Qingzhao.
"West Lake Jisheng": The West Lake in the Southern Song Dynasty, after more than a hundred years of continuous modification and gradual enrichment by the rulers of the dynasties, there were more than 100 imperial gardens and private gardens that could be audited at that time, and as for the temples and Taoist temples, pavilions and pavilions, etc. were innumerable, and finally formed a scenic area with equal emphasis on natural scenery and cultural landscape, which is the landscape layout of the "Qingshan Louwailou outside the mountain" in the poems of the people. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the Scenic Spots, Gardens and Villas, and Tourist Scenes of the West Lake in the Southern Song Dynasty.
"Interesting Talk on Place Names": During the Southern Song Dynasty, a number of place names with the characteristics of the times appeared in Hangzhou, especially in the present-day Shangcheng District. This book provides a detailed interpretation of the place names of the Southern Song Dynasty within the upper urban area. Interpret the place names in the area of present-day Shangcheng District during the Southern Song Dynasty to explain their origins.
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