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Scene 3: Travel through Japan's Heian period

As described above, we already know what a tragic journey through medieval Europe was a hellish journey.

However, it is true to say that in the Middle Ages in Eurasia6, whether it was the Islamic civilization in the Middle East and North Africa, or the Song Dynasty in the East, the standard of living and civilization were much stronger than in Europe during the same period.

As mentioned above, a series of customs, such as bathing, drinking tea, and drinking coffee, were introduced to Europe from the Arab world. And the Song Dynasty in the east was a beacon of civilization in the dark Middle Ages, which made the barbarians from all directions look at it with envy. Historians famously conclude that even a veteran who tended to the market in Bianliang City was more comfortable than a noble lord with a castle in Europe!

To give a few simple examples, the richness of a piece of land should be able to see some hints from its recipes. One of the most luxurious banquets in Chinese history was the banquet of the famous general Zhang Jun of the Southern Song Dynasty to Zhao Gou. This feast has served more than 6oo dishes of all sizes, from 1o o'clock in the morning to 9 o'clock in the evening, a total of 11 hours. And the most extravagant main course of medieval European royal banquets was at most a gripped syrup, spice-seeming oily roast meat - what other country in the world can compare with the Chinese?

For example, when Su Dongpo was on a boat trip, the boatman who was now supporting the boat actually read the Analects by heart, and the innkeeper would also recite a few of his latest poems, just like the star chasers of later generations.

In Bianliang, the capital at that time, according to the records of "Tokyo Menghualu", there were not only dazzling snacks of all kinds, but even newspapers sold on the street, various entertainment and nightlife were also rich, and the citizens lived a very petty bourgeois atmosphere. The city was lit up every night and there were few curfews, making it the only city in the world that never sleeped, enough to beat the distance of ten streets of the indigenous Europeans.

In addition, toilet paper also appeared in the Song Dynasty - the Chinese during the Five Dynasties were still cutting bamboo chips to wipe their butts, and the Southern Tang Dynasty Lord personally wielded a knife to cut it. But in Guan Hanqing's opera in the Yuan Dynasty, it has been completely changed to toilet paper. It can be seen that toilet paper should have been popularized in the Song Dynasty.

In short, China in the Song Dynasty had entered a prosperous society with a high degree of commercialization and citizenization, and its quality of life was once the best in the world.

If you want to enjoy a higher quality of life, you might as well go to the East!

However, please note that the concept of "Oriental" in this sentence, that is, until China, must not go too far!

If you want to continue east, you will cross the ocean and come to the easternmost point of the Eurasian Great 6, the legendary Japanese archipelago where the sun rises......

Then, all of you who have just experienced the various tragic customs of the European Middle Ages will probably realize again that your trip to the East is nothing more than jumping from one hell to another......