Foreword: A thought respectfully

The book "Spring and Autumn" compiled by Confucius recorded the history of the Lu State, which was originally a historical work, but the words were either praised, deprecated, ridiculed, or torted to be defended, which formed the "Spring and Autumn Brushwork" that had a great influence on later historians, resulting in the flattening of Chinese literary and historical works. In the prosperous era, it is the wind and snow, singing and dancing; In troubled times, it is full of devastation, and the people are not able to make a living. As a result, the Song Dynasty was marked with the sign of troubled times under the gaze of the historians of the past dynasties with colored glasses.

When the Great Song Dynasty is mentioned, what pops up in people's minds is only the cowardice of the 'Lanyuan Alliance', the humiliation of the 'Jingkang Change', the helplessness of the 'separation of the two dynasties', and the 100,000 people who were forced by the Jin people to Yashan to jump into the sea and die for the country, so that later generations sighed that there is no more China after Yashan.

The mountain that pressed on the body of the Song Dynasty was called "poor and weak", which made a deep imprint on the coffin for the Song Dynasty, since the rebellion of Anshi in the late Tang Dynasty, the entire Central Plains has entered a period of great turmoil, warlords from all walks of life are numerous, bandits occupy the mountain as kings, the people are displaced and miserable, Sima Guang said in the "Zizhi Tongjian": "Anshi is followed by disasters, the military revolution is endless, the people are devastated, there is no accusation, where more than 200 years. ”

Five dynasties and ten kingdoms, this is a dark period in Chinese history, and it is also a dark period for the people of that era, so the Song Dynasty established in this situation, you don't have to think about it, what a big mess it is.

Mr. Qian Mu, a famous historian in modern times, said frankly in his "Outline of National History": "The Qin, Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties were typical rich and strong, while the two Song Dynasty were typical poor and weak. In 1963, another famous historian, Jian Bozan, quoted Qian Mu's theory of "poverty and weakness" in the third volume of "Outline of Chinese History", and put it forward as a conceptual phrase, so the impression of the two Song Dynasty took root in the hearts of the people, just like the tinkling of poverty in the Song Dynasty, being beaten all over the ground looking for teeth, a picture of embarrassed history.

However, this is not the case. The economy of the Song Dynasty reached the peak of China's economy, and in terms of Guozuo alone, only the Song Dynasty was the only feudal dynasty that passed the limit of 300 years. In the north, there are Liao, Jin, Xixia in the west, Dali and Jiaozhi in the south, and Mengyuan in the back. The Mongolian iron horseman, known as the whip of God, took half a century to win the Song Dynasty. The reason why we need to study history is because we need to fairly understand the real living conditions of China in the past, and it is not rational to see a dynasty that has been in the country for more than 300 years with a colored glasses case magnifying glass.

The famous British historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975) once said: "The Song Dynasty is the dynasty that is most adapted to human life, and if I had to choose, I would like to live in the Song Dynasty." Chen Yinge, a master of Chinese history, also asserted: "The evolution of Chinese national culture over thousands of years was created in the Zhao and Song dynasties." Regardless of economic culture, social system, human rights and welfare, moral morality, people's life and many other aspects, the Song Dynasty has reached the pinnacle of ancient China, is an out-and-out golden age, however, the significance of the Song Dynasty is far from this, the famous thinker Yan Fu at the end of the Qing Dynasty said: "The reason why China has become today's phenomenon is that the Song people have created ten **." That is, it has many characteristics of modern society, and many of the lives of today's modern society can be found in the Song Dynasty, such as urban patterns, commercial credit, commodity streets, expos, night markets, 24-hour nightclubs, talent markets, performing arts squares, restaurant chains, commercial advertisements, scenic tour guides, professional managers, etc., these are the real Song Dynasty.

In the past year, a thought in the first book YY the Tang Dynasty, but the pen power is limited, the preparation is insufficient, so that the book is not satisfactory, leaving a lot of regrets, and now everything starts anew, a thought has been impatient, gearing up for everyone to present a historical feast.

The Great Song Dynasty is an era of talents, the culture is boiling, as bright as the galaxy, the official history records, wild history rumors, novels, many stories for the current world to admire, later generations admire, Zhao and Song dynasties, one line, three hundred and nineteen years of changes, this time, a thought to choose few historical authors involved in the early Song Dynasty as the background, an overview of the Great Song Dynasty that belongs to the heroes, take you into the era of the heart, experience the evolution of the Chinese millennium of the world, look at the sky and wear its firmament, the earth is yellow, and you nag Jiang Yin after the birth of a hundred years of legend!

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