A Quiet Life in the Song Dynasty: Everyday Life a Thousand Years Ago

This book introduces the daily lives of people in the Song Dynasty from eight aspects. The language is vivid and interesting. It introduces many records from ancient books and adapts them into stories to describe them, making it highly readable. People in the Song Dynasty were very good at enjoying life. They loved to be clean, kept pets, chatted about zodiac signs, and even ordered takeaways. They paid attention to the taste of life and were proficient in ordering tea, burning incense, arranging flowers, hairpins, tattoos, and makeup. Women in the Song Dynasty also had a certain status, and they were not the kind of people who would never leave the house with their little feet bound. Purdah women; they love to eat and play, pursue the enjoyment of the tip of the tongue, are keen to participate in various sports activities, and like to express their love for the mountains and rivers; they have a sense of ritual and take every festival seriously; the commerce in the Song Dynasty was very developed, imported goods could be purchased, and there was also a colorful nightlife. Compared with previous dynasties, the Song Dynasty has made great progress in all aspects. It can be said to be the prototype of modern society. Seeing that the ancients 1,000 years ago existed so vividly, I feel warm and powerful in my heart, and I understand the value of history to real life.

It's good to read and I learned a lot about the Song Dynasty.

It is interesting and involves all aspects of the clothing, food, housing, transportation and daily life of the ancients in the Song Dynasty. It can enrich the understanding of the life of the ancients and better understand an era. The text is vivid and interesting, not obscure and difficult to understand, and the content is relatively simple, suitable for entertainment and leisure viewing.

I like this kind of book with a sense of life. I really like the Song Dynasty after reading it. I feel that the Song Dynasty is really prosperous and relaxed. There are some things that I didn't expect to have in the Song Dynasty. It really surprised me. This book also taught me a lot about the Song Dynasty.

I just came back from traveling to Kaifeng and Luoyang, and I happened to be curious about the Song Dynasty. This book is very interesting. The commercial prosperity described in the book feels rare even now. It made me have many reveries about the daily life of the ancients living in Bianjing. 😂 Listening to this book feels more interesting than traveling to Henan.

This book can be said to be a very objective account of life in the Song Dynasty, because it is well documented. It is also very easy to understand, just like sitting in a coffee shop and listening to the stories (gossip) of one friend and another of your friends. It will also help me watch TV dramas set in the context of the Song Dynasty in the future.

Who knows? When I opened "Little Days in the Song Dynasty", I was immediately surprised by the life of the ancients - there were actually "errand boys" and "intermediary companies" thousands of years ago? When talking about the Song Dynasty, perhaps the labels of "Jingkang's shame" and "valuing civility over martial arts" come to mind. However, this book directly focuses on daily necessities: on a rainy day, you can enjoy masturbating at home with a cat, and you can go out to a restaurant with your friends to have a great time. At night, if you want to watch football games, there are live broadcasts of Cuju and sumo wrestling, and the main theme is "eating, drinking, and having fun"; if you want to go the more sophisticated route, the whole process of ordering tea, arranging flowers, and burning incense is arranged, and the level of elegance is far beyond that of modern Internet celebrities! Except for the lack of mobile phone WiFi, people in the Song Dynasty had a much richer and more enjoyable life than we do! So! In this age where everyone is busy, maybe we should slow down and have a few drinks with friends after work, bask in the sun and drink tea with our family, or even just listen to our favorite song and relax for a while, these are all small blessings in life!

Very good, the language is simple and interesting, the ancient paintings and documents are corroborated, and there is also a translation, which is just right for an ignorant person like me!

It's very interesting. It allows people to understand the customs, customs and daily life of the Song Dynasty bit by bit. It has a sense of life.

A very interesting book. This is my first review. The content is really interesting and the author is good at writing!