Du Fu, a great poet, described it like this in his poem "Remembering the Past": "Looking back at the heyday of Kaiyuan, there were still thousands of families in the small town. Rice is fat and white, and public and private warehouses are rich. " The poem means that in the heyday of Kaiyuan, there were tens of thousands of families even in small counties. Agriculture has been bumper harvest year after year, grain is piled up in public and private warehouses, and people's lives are very rich.
According to Wang Qinruo's revised Book House Yuan Gui, in the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty gave a banquet to entertain the civil and military officials on the day of his birth. A minister said that he hoped to make August 5th a millennium festival and send a notice to the whole world. All ministers will have a three-day holiday, and all ministers will wish the emperor a long life every day.
There are more than 1 10,000 foreigners from Japan, Silla and the Western Regions ... What is even more incredible is that foreigners can be officials in the Tang Dynasty, which has brought colorful cultural atmosphere to China. Such an international city is hard to find in today's world. Where is Chang 'an? At that time, in the Middle Ages, a city with 10,000 residents was considered a big city, but in Chang 'an at that time, there were more than one million residents, including hundreds of thousands of Hu people. Not only large, but also full of weather. There is a ghost market among the people, which is noisy day and night and brightly lit. The culture is magnanimous, "the demon of the country is heavy, and the son of a thin disciple is light." Therefore, this bliss feast may exist! Li Longji also deserves such a feast, because the prosperity of Kaiyuan cannot be separated from Li Longji!