In Song Dynasty, people's first meal was from 9 am to 10, and the second meal was from 4 pm to 5 pm. Therefore, the catering industry in Song Dynasty can be divided into three categories: vendors selling only breakfast, restaurants selling only dinner, and restaurants selling both breakfast and dinner. People's living standards have gradually improved. At first, they were not limited to eating only two meals, but also had a little heart meal in the afternoon, similar to afternoon tea now.
With the improvement of economic conditions, the Song people not only made great improvements in diet, but also began to become colorful in spiritual entertainment. A super-large civic entertainment and cultural center, Goulan Washe, appeared in Kaifeng, the capital of China. There are restaurants, teahouses, restaurants, goulan and sheds. Sheds and goulan are places where entertainment programs such as sumo, zaju, shadow play, puppet show, magic, storytelling and singing are performed. In the Song Dynasty, there was acrobatic training for small animals, which is unheard of today. They are ants, fish, tadpoles, small crabs, thrush birds, turtles and other animals. At that time, people called it insect-teaching ant or insect-controlling ant. This skill is very interesting, such as teaching fish to jump knife, teaching monkeys and crows to play chess and so on. And artists who make insects and ants knock on gongs to call the names of small animals, so that small animals such as turtles, turtles and fish can swim from the bottom to the surface in turn, put on toys and dance, and then automatically sink to the bottom after the performance.
I really don't know how the insect and ant artists in the Song Dynasty trained these small animals to be so obedient. Unfortunately, these magical performances were gradually lost after the Song Dynasty. "There is no such thing since then."
People in Song Dynasty liked Cuju very much, and there were women's teams. Even Emperor Song Huizong was a master of Cuju. There were many non-governmental organizations in the Song Dynasty. People who like Cuju can join Cuju clubs, such as Yunqi Club and Ju Yuan Club, and those who like sumo, such as Jiaojiao Club. At that time, there were various poetry clubs, beer and skittles clubs, which were somewhat similar to modern clubs.
Sumo is now a national sport in Japan. A thousand years ago, sumo was a popular national sport in the Song Dynasty. There was a national sumo tournament at that time. Winners include prizes, trophies, certificates and commercial sumo performances.
In the Song Dynasty, before the commercial sumo performance began, a lively female sumo performance was often arranged to attract the audience. Sumo wrestlers, a famous woman in Song Dynasty, and sumo wrestlers, a woman, were called "Women's Sumo (zh m: n)". Song Renzong was attracted by women and watched "Women's Sumo" at Xuande Gate, which also provoked Sima Guang to criticize that it was indecent for the son of heaven to watch women's performances in cool clothes on serious occasions.
During the Yuanfeng period in northern Song Shenzong (1078- 1085), the urbanization rate reached an astonishing 30%. In the so-called "kanggan prosperous time" era, this proportion was only 9%; However, it was only at the beginning of the 20th century that New China reached this value again. Later, in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, the population of China (Song Dynasty only) accounted for about 15% of the world population, but the total economic output accounted for more than 75% of the world. But today, the population of China accounts for 2 1% of the world's population, but the total economic output only accounts for 4% of the world.
As far as education is concerned, there are Guozixue and imperial academy in the capital, as well as martial arts, law, arithmetic, painting, calligraphy and medicine with strong professionalism. After Song Renzong, states and counties were encouraged to set up schools. By the time of Song Huizong, the number of students in counties and counties whose accommodation was paid by the government reached150,000 to 60,000, which was probably unique in the world at that time. In addition to government-run schools, private lectures and apprentices have also become a common practice, among which the prosperity of academies is the most striking.
Moreover, three of China's "four great inventions" at that time: printing, compass and gunpowder all appeared in the Song Dynasty and were widely used. More than half of the important inventions of the whole feudal society appeared in the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the Song Dynasty was the dynasty with the clearest politics, the most prosperous economy, the most advanced science and technology, the most prosperous culture, the highest artistic level and the richest people's life in China's history.