[A 100-Day Challenge to the Ancients: Dreaming of the Song Dynasty, Box Set of 2]
A 100-Day Challenge to the Ancients: A Commoner's Daily Life in the Song Dynasty
What was everyday life like for ordinary people in the Song Dynasty?
Did people in the Song Dynasty rent their homes, too?
How expensive were houses and rent?
Where did people go for medicine when they fell ill?
What customs surrounded weddings and funerals?
How did people seek justice when they got into disputes?
Food, medicine, prices, marriage customs, the imperial examinations, the justice system...
A sweeping portrait of the countless facets of life in the Song Dynasty. Set out once more, and travel there through words.
A 100-Day Challenge to the Ancients: Moving to the Southern Song
How did life change for people in the Southern Song compared with the Northern Song?
What were the differences between Lin'an and Bianjing?
What did people in the Southern Song call a bathhouse?
Did the Southern Song have toilet paper?
How many kinds of schools were there in the Southern Song? Was there a lot of homework?
How did workers in the Southern Song get time off? Did they have to make up for holidays?
How much did people in the Southern Song love West Lake?
Against the weighty historical backdrop of the transition between the Northern and Southern Song, lively, delicate prose opens a crack through which we glimpse the many forms of everyday life, still shimmering with a faint light across the ages.
Set out once more, and arrive in the true Jiangnan of a thousand years ago.
