From the previous description, we already know what a tragic journey through medieval Europe was a hellish journey.

However, to be honest, in medieval Eurasia, 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 those in Europe during the same period.

According to the aforementioned article, a series of customs such as bathing, drinking tea, and drinking coffee were introduced to Europe from the Arab shijie. And the Song Dynasty in the east was a beacon of civilization in the dark Middle Ages, which made the barbarians of all directions envious. 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 discerning from its recipes. One of the most luxurious banquets in Chinese history was the banquet hosted by the famous general Zhang Jun in the Southern Song Dynasty to Zhao Gou, Gaozong of the Song Dynasty. This feast has served more than 600 dishes, large and small, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., 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?

Then, the cultural level of the people of the Song Dynasty was much higher than that of Europe, which was illiterate at the same time, for example, when Su Dongpo took a boat ride, he found that the boatman who was holding the penny was actually familiar with the "Analects", and the innkeeper would also recite 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 was very little curfew, which was the only city that never sleeped, enough to throw off 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 continent, the legendary Japanese archipelago where the sun rises......

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