A Brief History of the Song Dynasty
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Why did the Song Dynasty, on the one hand, suffer from the ridicule of poverty and weakness of previous dynasties, but on the other hand, it achieved unprecedented achievements in spiritual temperament, ideology and culture? Well-known scholars of Song history, Bao Weimin and Wu Zhengqiang, looked back at the ups and downs of the Song Dynasty over the past 300 years to gain a glimpse into the historical texture and trace the code of its rise and fall. Looking back at the ups and downs of the dynasty over the past 300 years, the Song Dynasty succeeded the turbulent times of the late Tang Dynasty and established the country, but it never fully recovered the vast territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties. It suffered the "Jingkang Disgrace" and was robbed of half of its rivers and mountains, and settled south of the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River. Politically, it valued culture over military affairs, and strategically defended itself internally and externally. The Song Dynasty was surrounded by powerful enemies all day long, until it perished due to the rise of the Mongolian cavalry. But it was the same Song Dynasty that was considered to have opened up a "new situation" in the historical evolution of China's imperial dynasty, whether it was the political maturity of scholar-bureaucrats, the strengthening of the refined and restrained characteristics of agricultural civilization, the significant development of the commodity economy and handicraft industry, the numerous inventions in the technical field, and the epoch-making innovations in the ideological field. How is it that the same Song Dynasty, on the one hand, was ridiculed by poverty and weakness in previous dynasties, but on the other hand, it achieved unprecedented achievements in spiritual temperament, ideology and culture? To answer this question, we need to peer into the fabric of history and trace the codes of rise and fall.
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