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This book is a collection of literary and historical essays by Yu Yunguo, a professor at Shanghai Normal University and director of the Chinese Song History Research Association. It includes the author's notes on reading history, miscellaneous thoughts, nostalgia for people, and book reviews in recent years. The book is named after the author's study, and refers to the famous couplet of Donglin Academy: "The sound of wind, rain, and reading are heard in the ears; family affairs, national affairs, and world affairs are concerned about everything." It expresses the author's feeling of "reading, reading history, reading people, and reading the world" and his humanistic sentiments in the form of current reviews, sketches, and calligraphy.

In the book "Water Margin in Search of the Song Dynasty", Yu Yunguo, a famous historian of the Song Dynasty, relies on his decades of research results on the history of the Song Dynasty, uses his profound and extensive knowledge to run through official history, notes and novels, and tells the society of the Song Dynasty in a narrated style. Various customs open up the never-before-seen world in "Water Margin" from a new perspective, restoring the novel into a three-dimensional and dynamic "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", recreating the lively and colorful Song Dynasty. Readers can follow the author's writing to observe the solemn and grand Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting and Mingtang Ceremony, appreciate the romantic and joyful atmosphere of wearing hairpins and drinking wine, composing poems and lyrics, watching the tide and listening to music, and carving green Cuju, strolling the imperial streets of the two Song Dynasties, and tasting breakfast. Cooking cakes in the market, stopping to listen to the Taiping Songs sung by strangers on the street, going up to the fan tower, finding a secluded pavilion, enjoying the singing of Baixi Opera, renting a mountain sedan with a flower on the hairpin, visiting the Xiangguo Temple in Tokyo, watching the Qiantang tide in Hangzhou...

This book selects the two emperors Guangzong and Ningzong of the Song Dynasty, who were in the period of rule and decline in the Southern Song Dynasty, as the research subjects. It profoundly reveals the political and social problems in the middle period of the Southern Song Dynasty from the farce of inner Zen, the Qingyuan party ban, foreign wars, and the dictatorship of power ministers. It also analyzes the process and reasons of the involuntary decline of the Southern Song Dynasty in the Guang and Ning dynasties. This book believes that the reversal of the historical trend of the Southern Song Dynasty took shape in the Guang and Ning eras. The collapse of the imperial power of the Southern Song Dynasty and the dictatorship of power ministers began in this period. The paper money credit trend that broke out in the early years of Jiading marked that the social economy of the Southern Song Dynasty fell into a state of comprehensive imbalance. Dilemma, the defeat of the Kaixi Northern Expedition and the defeat of the Jiading Campaign foreshadowed the defeat of the Southern Song Dynasty in the upcoming Song-Mongolian War, and the precursor of the official academicization of Neo-Confucianism in the Jiading period reflected the urgency of the ruling class to seek help from new ruling ideas in the face of social crises.

Open this book and you will see how the women around these emperors vividly interpreted the contradictory words of beautiful appearance, endless affection, charming, charming, talented, charming, intelligent, outstanding, good at dancing, intrigues, intrigues, scheming, unscrupulous, and unscrupulous! It makes people sigh: It is said that women are born for love and live for love, but they live such a hard, abnormal, miserable, twisted and struggling life! Watching generations of women throwing themselves into the inevitable disaster like passing batons, all people today should feel happy, especially women, who should have a deep understanding of luck, because they no longer have to enter Yuan Zhen's "The Palace": the ancient palace is lonely, and the palace flowers are lonely and red. The white-headed palace maid is here, sitting around talking about Xuanzong. If there is an afterlife, I hope they can both find the same person and stay together forever!

Examine the reigns of Song Guangzong and Song Ningzong from a broader historical perspective: Mongolian cavalry marched westward and southward, invincible, Western Liao and Khwarezmo were destroyed, Xixia, Jin Dynasty, and Korea sued for peace... However, the Southern Song Dynasty completely lacked a sense of realistic crisis. When future generations read history to this point, they cannot but feel sad and worried about the Southern Song Dynasty. In a sense, every emperor is a microcosm of the era he ruled. As an integral part of the entire historical research, the research on historical figures has the widest reader coverage compared to highly professional topics such as institutional history and economic history. This book selects two emperors, Guangzong and Ningzong of the Song Dynasty, who are not very well-known, as the research subjects. It comprehensively displays the political and social issues in the middle period of the Southern Song Dynasty, and also analyzes the process and reasons of the decline of the Southern Song Dynasty during the Guangning and Ning dynasties.

This book is one of the "Zhang Taiyan Narrative Series", which aims to study, discover and organize Zhang Taiyan's academic thoughts, and compile and publish the popular results of Zhang Taiyan's research. Compiled and selected by Professor Yu Yunguo, a famous expert on Song history. Zhang Taiyan (January 12, 1869 - June 14, 1936), named Binglin, also named Meishu, was originally named Xuecheng. Later his name was changed to Jiang, and his nickname was Taiyan. He was a native of Yuhang, Zhejiang. He was a democratic revolutionary and thinker in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and a famous master of Pu Xue in modern China. His research scope covered primary school, history, philosophy, politics, etc., And he wrote many books. He also took teaching Chinese studies as his own responsibility and was known as a "learned revolutionist". Guoyi is a writing genre that emerged after the Song Dynasty, which is a student's transcript of the teacher's conversational lectures. Compared with high-level sermons, oral expressions are free and lively in form, eclectic in content, and often generate discussions on a certain issue. This book includes Zhang Taiyan's three works named after the Han Dynasty and 27 "Issues about the Han Dynasty". It is mainly based on Buddhist knowledge-only theory, and comprehensively compares it with Chinese Confucianism, Taoism, Yi, Xuanxuan, Neo-Confucianism, etc., Including classics, medicine, calendars, mathematics, music, literature, phonology, etc. Since the pre-Qin Dynasty. Historical events, etc., Are often involved, and have a specific status in Mr. Taiyan's abundant academic works; in the process, he also recounts the changes in academic thoughts, as a self-identification, so it has attracted much attention from scholars, and has been highly praised by Liang Qichao, Qian Mu, etc., And it is an important reference work for learning and researching Chinese traditional culture.

In the 20th century, the world was in a state of flux, and academic scholarship was turbulent. Chinese historians inherited old learning, integrated new knowledge, and devoted themselves to the connection and transformation of old and new paradigms. At the same time, with the vicissitudes of life and the ups and downs of the country, the scholarship and destiny of historians also experienced ups and downs. This book takes famous historians such as Lu Simian, Chen Yuan, Chen Yinke, Gu Jiegang, Wu Han, Ding Zeliang, Yan Gengwang, Liu Zijian, Zhang Jiaju and Cheng Yingluo as typical cases, and reproduces their life trajectories and academic careers under the dramatic changes of the times. Its historical outlook and methodology not only outline the glorious achievements and twists and turns of China's history over the past century, but also truly restore the fate and mental journey of these historians, leaving deep thoughts for later generations when looking back on history. This book is Professor Yu Yunguo's research on modern historians and the context of historiography in the 20th century. The essays included were written over a period of 25 years and are the author's painstaking efforts in studying history for decades.

"The Twilight of the Southern Song Dynasty: The Era of Song Guangzong and Song Ningzong (Updated Edition)" selects the two emperors of Song Guangzong and Song Ningzong who transitioned from rule to decline in the Southern Song Dynasty as the research subjects. It profoundly reveals the political and social issues in the middle period of the Southern Song Dynasty from the farce of inner Zen, the Qingyuan party ban, foreign wars, and the dictatorship of power ministers. It also analyzes the process and reasons why the Southern Song Dynasty in the Guang and Ning dynasties involuntarily declined. In the book "Water Margin in Search of the Song Dynasty", Professor Yu Yunguo takes a different approach, relying on his decades of research results on Song history to interpret "Water Margin" in a comprehensive and comprehensive way. In the "Reading Chapter" at the beginning of the book, Professor Yu summarizes various reading methods of "Water Margin", giving people enlightenment from multiple perspectives. He also examines and points out a number of historical and geographical errors in "Water Margin", which is eye-catching and also allows people to objectively understand the writing process of "Water Margin" from one aspect.

"The Continuation of Li Dongfang's Lecture on History. A Detailed Description of the Song Dynasty" narrates the history from the unification of the country by Song Taizu to the Yuan Dynasty's destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, involving important histories and figures of the Song Dynasty, Xixia, Liao, Jin and other regimes. In the form of "history telling", Mr. Li Dongfang narrated major events such as the Chenqiao Mutiny, the Release of Military Power over Drinking Wine, the Chanyuan Alliance, and the Jingkang Incident, as well as important figures such as Song Taizu, Liao Taizu, Jin Taizu, Song Renzong, Song Zong, Yue Fei, Qin Hui, and Wen Tianxiang. He also gave a historical explanation of the Yang family generals, Bao Zheng, and civet cats for princes in folklore, which is extremely informative and readable. The "detailed description style" contains not only vivid stories and real history, but also insightful comments, and the style is unique.

This book is a collection of essays and book reviews dedicated to the two Song Dynasties. The author, Mr. Yu Yunguo, combines the professional vision of a historian with the vivid writing style of a humanistic scholar. Through the portraits of monarchs and ministers, unique interpretations of major historical events, unique interpretations of cultural phenomena, and thorough analysis of the institutional level, the author finally presents a high-level overview of the Song Dynasty, which comprehensively and deeply displays the logical trajectory of the rise and fall of the Song Dynasty.