Teach you to understand Song Dynasty notes and fiction

Author: Gao Tan Culture (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2006-12-12
Features: Notebooks were articles written spontaneously by people of the time, with scattered but all-encompassing themes, covering various aspects such as political systems, social news, and extraordinary people and events. Do you want to learn about the techniques of cockfighting in ancient times? Do you want to know how ancient people addressed their parents? Do you want to glimpse the face of secret religions in the Song Dynasty? "Notebooks" mean "spontaneous records," a non-formal and unstructured genre. They vary in length and content, with few restrictions, and over the nearly five thousand years of cultural evolution in China, the number of notebooks passed down is. In the Song Dynasty, which valued literature over martial arts and was weak and declining, active scholars left their "pens" everywhere. According to the Art and Literature Records in the History of the Song Dynasty, Song Dynasty notebooks were quite extensive in both variety and quantity, ranging from serious and formal political commentary to humorous and satirical official life, as well as practical and astonishing scientific knowledge, demonstrating the rich and diverse content of notebooks. The notebooks selected and translated in this book are broadly categorized into six units: Food, Clothing, and Leisure; Recognizing Extraordinary People; Observing Strange Phenomena; Admiring Objects; Being Amazed by Diverse States; and Poking Fun at Current Issues. They include the works of famous Song Dynasty scholars such as Ouyang Xiu, Lu You, Sima Guang, and Shen Kuo, aiming to allow readers to piece together some aspects of Song Dynasty society through reading their writings.