The term "prosperous age" has appeared frequently in various media recently. As pointed out in the introduction of this article, the great couplet on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala is an example of this. Someone even wrote an article and suggested that there were three prosperous ages in China's history, namely the prosperous age of the early Han Dynasty, the prosperous age of the early Tang Dynasty and the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong, and suggested that China is about to enter the fourth prosperous age in Chinese history. From Dalu’s point of view, the prosperous ages of Kangxi and Qianlong cannot be compared with the prosperous ages of Han and Tang Dynasties. During the heydays of the Han and Tang dynasties, China was ahead of the rest of the world at the time. During the Kangxi and Qianlong eras, although the Qing Dynasty had commendable performance in economic and military aspects and the people's lives were relatively abundant, the country's development level lagged behind the world's development level. In addition, from a cultural perspective, compared with the splendid culture of the Tang Dynasty, the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong was one of the darker eras in Chinese history. Throughout the Qing dynasty, people's thoughts and culture have become extremely rigid and conservative, with no trace of vigorous and bold poetry, and few masterpieces that have been passed down to later generations. Could it be that the tragic ending of the Qing Dynasty had nothing to do with the self-isolation, literary prison, and ideological imprisonment during the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong?
There is only one song "Spring River with Flowers and Moonlight Night", and there was only one song in the Tang Dynasty. The sound of the piano in "Sunset Flute and Drum" comes in waves, and the picturesque and poetic scene described in "Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night" appear before your eyes, making people feel like they have returned to the Tang Dynasty in a dream, and then infinitely miss the Tang Dynasty. The myriad phenomena of the prosperous age.