In history textbooks, the Song Dynasty was an era of poverty and weakness, which has a lot to do with the personal experience of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Kuangyin, who is considered to be unjust in winning the country, has always been a controversial figure in history.

After Song Taizu ascended the throne, he began to order to stop the superstition of talismans and oppose the Yuan Xiang diagram. This point seems to be his ideological non-feudal, and even a kind of progress.

In fact, this kind of nonsense may instigate some careerists with bad intentions, and Zhao Kuangyin himself made his fortune.

Zhao Kuangyin once wandered in the market, gambling and fighting, and had nothing to do.

Once Zhao Kuangyin entered a temple, and met a bamboo cocoon on the incense case that divined the auspicious fate, he prayed while throwing the bamboo cocoon, and the first time he asked was whether he could be a small school, but he asked several times, and it was unlucky;

He also asked if he could be a festival envoy, but it was still unlucky; He was a little angry, and had the courage to ask if he could be a son of heaven, but unexpectedly, the bamboo cocoon suddenly showed a good omen.

Since then, he has made a grand wish to be an emperor in his heart, and now that he is really an emperor, he thinks that it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no one like him in the world. Therefore, after Song Taizu ascended the throne, he strictly forbade the talk of prophecies and talismans. He issued an edict: "Prohibition of Yuan Xiang artifacts, astronomical diagrams, Qiyao calendars, Taiyi, Lei Gong, Liuren, Dunjia, etc. It is not allowed to hide it at home, and some of them will be sent to the official. "Anyone who violates the law shall be punished with death.

Song Weizhong, who had been a generalist, was killed for "studying astronomy privately and gossiping about the benefits".

In order to stop the popularity of this kind of thing among the people, Song Taizu ordered people to buy a large number of old diagrams, organized a group of people to deliberately delete and reverse the content, mixed it indiscriminately, copied about 100 fake copies, and exiled them to the people, so as to cause the popularity of folk fake books, it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false, so as to achieve the purpose of destroying people's beliefs.

Another strategy of cultural domination of the Song dynasty was to revive Confucianism and restore the Gangchang Mingjiao.

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was a very clever feudal emperor.

He ended more than 200 years of division that had begun in the middle of the Tang Dynasty and stabilized the political situation of the Great Song Dynasty.

Many of the political strategies he created played a very important role in the prosperity and development of the Great Song Dynasty.

In particular, he systematically prevented chaos in the world, promoted the unification of the Chinese nation, reversed the chaotic government of military ministers, and advocated the peace of the people, leaving an indelible page in the imperial history of China's feudal society.

However, these tactics of his also had great drawbacks, his series of centralized military and political measures, strengthened the imperial power and weakened the army; The bureaucratization of the government led to poverty and weakness in the Northern Song Dynasty; The military power is too concentrated, the generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not recognize the generals, which weakens the combat effectiveness of the army; Bureaucratic structures overlap and contain each other, and work is extremely inefficient. His descendants would only follow suit and not know how to adapt, which eventually led to the collapse of the country and the destruction of the family, and the two emperors of Hui and Qin were taken captive as slaves of the country.

In people's impression, the Song Dynasty was another era of poisoning by science, and a large number of unearthed cultural relics show that the Song Dynasty was an era of extremely prosperous commercial economy and a surge of private wealth.

Batches of literati told us,

This is still an era of personality and high aesthetics.

The people of the Song Dynasty cared more about nature and were naturally beautiful. When I think of the Tang Dynasty, the first feeling is usually that the big poems are mostly "the west wind is afterglowing, the Han family mausoleum", "the desert is lonely and the smoke is straight, and the sun sets on the long river", which has a majestic beauty. The ceramic craft is Tang Sancai, the color is gorgeous, and the writing is mostly in regular italics.

The Song Dynasty was different, and the words were mostly "Yang Fang'an Xiaofeng Wanyue" and "Helpless Flowers Fall", constructing the inner experience with the most life-like scenery, and paying more attention to self.

The color of the ceramics of the Song Dynasty is also much monotonous, like the five famous kilns, most of them are plain and elegant pure colors.

The flower and bird paintings of the Song Dynasty are also a must, as small as a worm, can make people feel a kind of life power.

The calligraphy of the Song Dynasty was also a lot more casual, and what was written was the expression of emotions at that time, even if there was a typo, it was a big deal to circle it and make up for it.

The people of the Song Dynasty understood the meaning of life, and in addition to reading and engaging in politics, the literati of the Song Dynasty would also leave a peach garden in their hearts, or a landscape in their hearts.

frustrated, forgetting the past in the mountains and rivers; Proud, in the mountains and rivers to warn yourself not to be arrogant and impatient. Like Su Dongpo, he has been belittled many times, but he never changed his enthusiasm, and he indulged in mountains and rivers.

He can even depict ordinary and even embarrassing life in a funny way.

Being demoted to Huangzhou, he can't buy good meat, he can turn half-fat pork into the world-famous Dongpo meat.

Degraded Lingnan? He thought the lychees there were so delicious that he didn't want to leave.

In such an environment, the people of the Song Dynasty also turned elegance into a habit and popularized exquisite life to all aspects.

The high-level pursuit in the eyes of many people in the Tang Dynasty has become an ordinary thing in the Song Dynasty, for example, drinking tea in the Tang Dynasty is still an elegant thing, and in the Song Dynasty, it has become one of the seven things to open the door "firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea".

Shen Kuo even ridiculed the Tang people for not seeing the world in "Dream Creek Writings" (the Tang people wrote rich poems, and the prosperity of their flattering instruments and clothes was shocking to the poor eyes, such as the clouds in Guan Xiu's "Rich Song": "Carved into a zither pillar and a goose next to each other. ”

Now there are all those who have bullets, what a way! - "Dream Creek Writings"). During the Mid-Autumn Festival, they will gather together as a family, list the tortoise feasts, drink and admire the moon.

stayed up all night, and the food was the kind Su Shi talked about

"Small cakes chew like the moon, there are syrup and crispy" snowflake moon cakes.

Let us be very envious in the face of the increasingly weak festive atmosphere.

It's the Mid-Autumn Festival again, do you want to change?

Share an elegant fragrance from the Song Dynasty with your family.

The moon cake that was recorded in Su Shi's poem, with the efforts of the pastry chef,

It has appeared in front of everyone after more than 800 years from the recipe of the Southern Song Dynasty's "Wu's Feed" and named "Song Yue".

Song Yue's entrance is soft and glutinous, and the crust is made of freshly milled rice flour instead of flour; It is filled with four types of fillings: five kernels, sesame seeds, bergamot, and matcha.

Walnuts from Shanxi, melon seeds from Xinjiang, fried black sesame seeds, peanuts just on the ground,

Secret Jinhua pine bergamot ...... These raw materials, which bring together the natural flavors of the world, are all freshly made by experienced masters without any additives.

Song Yue is not roasted but steamed, and the whole process adopts the ancient recipe configuration, so that the best tasting period of Song Yue is only ten days, but every bite is the freshest and most beautiful.

This is a time that cannot be described clearly in any language, and before the Song Dynasty, power everywhere was in the hands of military generals. Zhao Kuangyin changed, and all localities were managed by civilian officials, and military generals were also under the control of civilian officials. The military power is usually in the hands of civilian officials, and when there is a war, it is given to the military generals, and after the war, it has to be handed back.

Zhao Kuangyin reused literati, and almost all of the officials under him were literati. This practice was carried over in the Song Dynasty, which gave civil officials good treatment and high salaries. The literati of the Song Dynasty could live a comfortable life as long as they read well and took the civil service examination.

Civil officials like to discuss state affairs, and when they see that the emperor is doing something wrong, they will write a memo to the emperor and criticize the emperor. In the past, if you ran into Emperor Lai, you might be killed if you were unhappy after watching the recitals. Zhao Kuangyin set the rules for the Song Dynasty, and it was a good thing to write a song to criticize the emperor, no matter how ugly it was, it was absolutely forbidden to kill people. This rule really saved a lot of people in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Kuangyin attaches great importance to literati, which may be related to his love of reading. Although he is a military general, he likes to read. Before becoming the emperor, once Zhao Kuangyin went out to fight and won, everyone else shared the spoils, but he moved several cars of books home. A military general loves books so much, and it was regarded as a strange thing at the time.

Zhao Kuangyin loves to read, and he also persuades his subordinates to read more. He often told his ministers that they should study more, promote more civil officials, and govern the country by relying on literati.

Zhao Kuangyin's prime minister, Zhao Pu, originally didn't like to read, but was persuaded by Zhao Kuangyin to love reading. But this man is interesting, he only reads one book, Confucius's Analects.

Every day, it is turned over, and it is rotten, and a "Analects" has become half of it, and he is quite proud: I, Zhao Pu, half of the "Analects" rule the world. On the contrary, he is really good as a prime minister, and the part where he gave Zhao Kuangyin as prime minister, the Song Dynasty was stable and prosperous, and it was a good time. Therefore, half of Zhao Pu's "Analects" ruled the world and became a famous story in history.

Coming to such an era, it is natural for people to feel that they have a bright future.

Perhaps along the trajectory of the founding of the Song Dynasty, a lot of stories can be found, which Mei Xiaohan is quite interested in.