You must have been curious——
How wild is it in an era where one can become an emperor just by wearing a yellow robe?
How stubborn can a dynasty be in a dynasty in which the literati are quarreling with heaven and earth, but the military generals cannot hold their heads high?
On the first day of the first lunar month in 960 AD, every household in Kaifeng city posted a door god to celebrate the New Year. Suddenly, an urgent message came from the north: The Khitan people were calling! The seven-year-old little emperor was still playing with a rattle. Thirty miles away in Chenqiaoyi, a group of veterans were putting a yellow robe on the commander of their family's imperial army.
Zhao Kuangyin was just "made" the boss.
The Song Dynasty has begun.
In the next three hundred years, you will see——
Kou Zhun, a bully, dragged Song Zhenzong, who was afraid of death, to the front line, and shot an arrow to bring about 120 years of peace;
Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, two top academics, had a heated argument over "how to save the country";
The literary young man Huizong of the Song Dynasty painted thin golden bodies and raised cranes, and he suddenly lost his country;
Yue Fei wrote "The sky is clear" in Fengbo Pavilion, and Wen Tianxiang left "Keep your loyalty to illuminate history"...
And those famous scenes——
Is the Chanyuan Alliance losing money?
What happened that night?
Twelve gold medals recall not just one person, but the last blood of a dynasty.
On the day when hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea in Yashan, the Southern Song Dynasty disappeared, but some things cannot sink.
This book doesn't tell big stories, it just tells stories.
Pull the names in the history books in front of you and let you see——
They cried, laughed, were frightened, and just passed. In the end, their lives became history.
From Chenqiao to Yashan, it took three hundred years of ups and downs.
Come, let's take a look at the elegant and tragic, brilliant and twisted Song Dynasty.
