Big Talk About the Song Dynasty

The great river goes eastward, and the waves are swept away, and there are romantic figures throughout the ages. ——Su Shi Let's talk about the Song Dynasty (960-1279), which lasted for 319 years and was divided into the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, with a total of eighteen emperors. ‌Among them, there were nine emperors in 167 years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and there were also nine emperors in 152 years of the Southern Song Dynasty. Putting aside everything else, at first glance, the two Song Dynasties are quite symmetrical.