When People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded, in order to avoid the separatist regime and eunuch chaos since the mid-Tang Dynasty, Song Taizu adopted a policy of emphasizing the interior over the exterior, emphasizing literature over martial arts, which was conducive to economic and cultural prosperity.

But on the other hand, it also led to the weakness of force and could not fight Xixia and Liao countries.

And before 1 127, Uighur and Qin were captured by the Jin people, forcing the Song family to move south to Lin 'an, and the border between Huai River and Jin State in the north was called the Southern Song Dynasty, and the capital of Bianliang was called the Northern Song Dynasty.

By 1279, the Southern Song Dynasty was killed in the sea battle of Yashan and perished in the Yuan Dynasty established by Mongols.

Not too strong politically, is it?

Relatively speaking, the Song Dynasty was one of the most prosperous times in the history of China in terms of economy, culture and education. With the revival of Confucianism, the society is filled with the atmosphere of respecting teachers and attaching importance to education, the development of science and technology is also advancing by leaps and bounds, and politics is more open and clean [source request]. There was no serious eunuch chaos and local separatist regime in the last Song Dynasty, and the number and scale of mutiny and civil strife were relatively small in the history of China.

Chen, a famous historian, said: "The culture of the Chinese nation has developed for thousands of years and reached its peak in the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

"Among western and Japanese historians, many people think that the Song Dynasty was the Renaissance and economic revolution in the history of China.