Chapter 644

There are many ordinary people on the road.

On the river, there are many boats, which seem to be swaying with the river water.

A merchant leading a camel seems to be about to walk across the bridge.

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Similar scenes are everywhere.

A rough look is enough to see the prosperous age of the Northern Song Dynasty from this.

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——【I really want to travel through time.】

——【You have watched too many TV dramas; it is very difficult in reality.】

——【I want to see the real ancient times in the third person, without me experiencing that kind of thing.】

——【Wealth and honor are always fascinating.】

——【Look quickly, Zhao Pan'er is making tea, Sanniang is making fruit.】

——【Look quickly, Ximen Qing is peeking at Pan Jinlian.】

——【That is just a novel; Pan Jinlian and Wu Dalang are very loving.】

——【And Wu Dalang is very talented and also a handsome guy; I don't know how it was spread like this.】

——【Because someone in later generations had a grudge against them, they uglified them, and it has been passed down through the ages.】

——【Offended a villain, and it was an acquaintance, just because he didn't help him, he was edited.】

666. Jealousy makes people look unrecognizable! The peak of ancient technology! (Seeking full subscription)

——【Then this world also has no ability to distinguish right from wrong, it's really despicable. Writing people into such an image, writing the person's wife into a bad name through the ages.】

——【Actually, Wu Dalang helped him, but he returned to his hometown and didn't know, then he said it all the way. After returning to his hometown, he knew he helped him, but it was too late, and this has been passed down and is so famous.】

——【Jealousy makes people look unrecognizable.】

——【And Dalang is 1.8 meters tall.】

——【Song Dynasty, the peak of ancient Chinese technology.】

——【The history of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties for more than 300 years, both destructions were due to foreign troubles; it is the only dynasty that did not perish due to internal chaos. Without a strong military as a backing, everything is in vain.】

——【The Northern Song Dynasty perished, and the Southern Song Dynasty still didn't learn the lesson.】

——【Just this is longer than the so-called Han and Tang Dynasties, and it didn't use marriage to keep peace like Han and Tang.】

——【Everyone says the Song military was not good; in fact, the combat effectiveness of the army was still quite good. What was wrong was the basic national policy, governing the military with literature. Moreover, people lived for more than 300 years, which can be ranked in the top few. At the same time, the Liao and Jin Dynasties were all destroyed before it.】

——【It was wrong to meet the Mongols; the whole world couldn't stop the Mongols. Forgive the Great Song!】 【644-3

——【Dimensional reduction damage from barbaric civilization to agricultural civilization.】

——【Wrong, look at the Emperor; all decisions are made by the Emperor.】

——【Light on martial arts, heavy on literature, sigh.】

——【I really love the artistic conception of the Along the River During the Qingming Festival.】

——【In ancient times, no one pampered women; do you still like that artistic conception? Men had three wives and four concubines, women didn't step out of the inner chambers, there were years of war, and you couldn't even get enough to eat; do you still like that artistic conception? Women in feudal society were very miserable; look at how great women's rights are now.】

——【Look clearly, this is the Song Dynasty, the most open era for women.】

——【Ancient commoners were either working or on their way to work, with two meals a day.】

——【Isn't that the same for modern people?】

——【In ancient times, your neighbor died every day.】

——【The average life expectancy back then was only half of what it is now.】

——【You're exaggerating, brother; you're talking about times of chaos.】

——【The Song Dynasty started the three-meals-a-day habit; Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty even said that the Han people ate too much.】

——【A few hundred years that seem so short, yet the world has changed completely.】

——【That's a bit of a humblebrag, huh? A mere few hundred years is the entire history of other countries.】

——【Hahahaha.】

——【I see someone doing the hula dance on the screen; I have only two words: speechless.】

——【Family, if you want to time-travel, go to the Song Dynasty; women had high status, could engage in business and literature, and could even be female officials. Don't go to the Qing Dynasty and bind your feet.】

——【Foot binding started in the Song Dynasty.】

——【It started in the Southern Tang.】

——【Back then, small feet were fashion, purely a personal hobby; it was never forced.】

——【Foot binding existed in the Wei and Jin dynasties, but it wasn't mainstream and few people did it; the Yuan and Qing dynasties just popularized it. The Song Dynasty had the highest status for women in Chinese feudal dynasties; being able to initiate divorce already surpassed many dynasties.】

——【Historical records say Li Yu proposed it; which dynasty was Li Yu from, and what did he do?】

——【The Northern Song period should be the most economically prosperous dynasty, and also the dynasty where women were not restricted.】

667. Prosperity also has dangers! Fang Yang is truly meticulous! (Seeking full subscription)

Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a very large painting; the content contained within it might be vast, but everyone focuses more on the Northern Song period, and there isn't much understanding of some of the details on the canvas.

Fang Yang looked at it very carefully himself, then waited another three or four minutes before slowly opening his mouth to provide an explanation.

"What Zhang Zeduan painted on the surface is the prosperity of the Northern Song, but in fact, he has hidden quite a few dangers within this painting."

As Fang Yang spoke, he pointed at it directly with his hand.

"The first danger is the out-of-control horse."

"Everyone, take note: at the beginning of the scroll, there is a pair of officials who have just returned from hunting, carrying two pheasants; this was a major taboo in the Song capital."

"In the Song Dynasty, hunting was not allowed from February to September each year."

"Approaching the city gate, the horse was startled and ran wildly toward the market and the crowd; tsk tsk, this could cost lives."

"The second danger is the hidden fire hazard."

"Kaifeng City had 120 wards, and each ward had a fire-watching tower used to observe and manage fire situations."

"However, along the ten-mile street of the Along the River During the Qingming Festival, not a single fire-watching tower is painted."

"The only high platform that looks like a fire-watching tower was painted by Zhang Zeduan as a pavilion."

"You must know that in such a bustling market, once a fire starts, the consequences would be simply unimaginable."

"The third danger is the accident about to happen."

"The climax of the Along the River During the Qingming Festival is focused directly on the Rainbow Bridge in the center of the painting."

"I saw the Along the River During the Qingming Festival when I was very young, but at the time I was only watching the excitement and didn't see at all that the boat in this scene was about to crash into the bridge."

"The fourth danger is the chaotic market."

"At a rough glance, you would think everyone in this painting is happy and harmonious, but if you look closely, you will find that there are many problems with the people here; I don't mean all of them, but many have issues."

"The whole city is chaotic; on both sides of the Rainbow Bridge, there is a civil official and a military official."

"Two officials meet on a narrow path, and neither is willing to yield."

"The entire market is crowded and chaotic, filled with arguments."

"The fifth danger is the dilapidated city gate."

"The painting stops abruptly at the city gate."

"You can't see a single guard on duty, and camels from the Western Regions are actually able to enter and exit freely."

"The city wall is made entirely of rammed earth, loose and collapsing."

"There are even quite a few trees growing on top of it."

"Many of these details have been directly restored in the Qingming Riverside Landscape Garden in Kaifeng."

"If you are curious and your family is able to travel, I highly recommend you go there and take a look."

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——【I really had never looked at it in such detail before; if it weren't for Fang Yang, I'm afraid I would never have known that the Along the River During the Qingming Festival had such detailed things.】

——【How many of them aren't?】

——【So it's in Kaifeng? I originally thought it was in Hengdian.】

——【This place is actually very fun; I've been there before, it's very interesting.】

——【Actually, Fang Yang is wrong, because the mast of the boat can be lowered, so it won't hit the bridge.】

——【I've been to Kaifeng; apart from the tickets being a bit expensive, everything else is very good.】