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Between Nomadism and Farming and Weaving: an Overview of Daily Life in the Yuan Dynasty (life of the Ancients)

Han Zhiyuan

134K0

The Yuan Dynasty was a unified dynasty established by Mongolian rulers in Chinese history. Focusing on the four aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation, this book reveals a corner of social life in the Yuan Dynasty, leading readers to touch history, get closer to the Yuan Dynasty, and feel its distinctive and unique style of the times. The content of this book is extensive, the text is fluent and rigorous, and it has both historical documents and cultural relics that support each other. It can well enrich the readers' overall understanding of the society of the Yuan Dynasty.

Clothing, Food, Housing and Transportation in the Yuan Dynasty (illustrated Collection)

Han Zhiyuan

136K0

The Yuan Dynasty was a unified dynasty established by Mongolian rulers in Chinese history. It lasted for ninety-eight years after eleven emperors were established by Kublai Khan. Counting from the founding of the country by Genghis Khan, there were fifteen emperors, one hundred and sixty-three years. The territory after the unification of the Yuan Dynasty was: Siberia in the north, South China Sea in the south, Tibet and Yunnan in the southwest, Xinjiang in the northwest, and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk in the northeast. The costumes of the Yuan Dynasty had distinct characteristics of the era and the nation, and many new clothing styles appeared. Clothing materials, colors, craftsmanship, etc. All greatly exceed those of previous generations. Before the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian people mainly lived on animal husbandry and hunting, with meat and dairy products as their main foods. "Eat meat without grain" and rarely eat grain. After the unification of the Yuan Dynasty, exchanges between Mongolian, Han and other ethnic groups were strengthened. The combination of agriculture and animal husbandry made the food composition of the Yuan Dynasty gradually more reasonable, and the cooking technology of the Yuan Dynasty developed greatly. Tea and wine have become a cultural phenomenon and have been immersed in people's daily lives. For eating utensils, pursue tall shapes and valuable materials. People in the Yuan Dynasty accumulated a lot of knowledge on food hygiene in social practice, which played a certain positive role in human health and social development at that time. The Yuan Dynasty had a vast territory and the different geographical environments of each ethnic group determined the differences in living styles. There are felt tents on the grasslands, palaces in the cities, cave dwellings in the mountainous areas, boathouses in the water towns, houses on the plains, stone houses in coastal cities and buildings in the Central and West Asian styles, etc., Thus making the Yuan Dynasty residential buildings a rich and colorful picture.