History of Social Life in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties (Revised Edition)

Author: Zhu DaWei
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is one of the series "History of Ancient Chinese Society," collecting and organizing various documentary and archaeological materials related to social life during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties periods. It first conducts an in-depth examination of the profound impact of four key characteristics of the era—such as ethnic integration—on social life, and then comprehensively discusses the various aspects of social life among the Han and minority ethnic groups, including clothing and adornment, dietary customs, urban palaces and gardens, residential architecture, transportation, marriage, funerals, religious beliefs, spirit worship, divination, festivals, entertainment, education, and medicine. The book is rich in content, rigorous in research, and meticulous in argumentation, making it a specialized work of high academic value.