Thousand Faces of the Song Dynasty—scholar-Bureaucrats in the Letters Handed Down from Ancient Times

This book focuses on more than 120 private letters exchanged between literati and officials in the Song Dynasty, and reinterprets these isolated historical fragments based on historical data. It skillfully combines the people, things, things and the stories behind the letters into a complete story. It analyzes the social relations, political tendencies, inner emotions and talents of the literati in the Song Dynasty from five aspects: battlefield, officialdom, scholarship, human relations, and life and death. Finally, it restores a puzzle of common personalities of Song people under the historical background of the Song Dynasty. At the same time, from the emotional handwriting of Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Sima Guang, Su Shi and others, we can "decipher" their ups and downs inner world and the unique personality contained in each literati.