The Song Dynasty is now more than just the name of a dynasty, it has also evolved into a unique aesthetic symbol. During the Song Dynasty, China's GDP accounted for 60% of the world's GDP, during which Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming Dynasties emerged.
Scientific and technological development has also advanced by leaps and bounds, and politics have become more enlightened. Western and Japanese historians believe that the Song Dynasty was a Renaissance in Chinese history. The Song Dynasty was a dynasty that was not too powerful but had the strongest sense of happiness. It had no civil strife, was open and peaceful. No other dynasty understood life and beauty better than the Song Dynasty. Ancient aesthetics, which reached its highest level in the Song Dynasty, required absolute simplicity, that is, simplicity of roundness, squareness, plain color, and texture. The aesthetics of the Song Dynasty are so fascinating.
People in the Song Dynasty used ink for painting and fired single-color glazed porcelain. Now when talking about minimalism, the Song Dynasty was the earliest minimalism.
The Song Dynasty was a peak of civilization. Song Ru Kiln is an amazing famous brand that has lasted for a thousand years! The tri-color paintings of the Tang Dynasty were all colorful, but the Song Dynasty dared to propose a simple style among the flowers and greens.
Song porcelain is still imitated all over the world. The ice cracks were originally burned out, but people in the Song Dynasty felt that there was a beauty of vicissitudes in them. After time, they called them open sheets. They used different fire temperatures to create open sheets. What was originally a failure and damage turned into beauty. This is a very special aesthetics of the Song Dynasty.
The Song Dynasty's version of the book - The Diamond Sutra written by Zhang Jizhi of the Southern Song Dynasty
The Song's version of the book is the most precious culture in the world. I think its typesetting and printing method is the most precious in the world. The most beautiful.
In the auction market, Song edition books are sold page by page. The movable type typesetting and printing technology of the Song Dynasty in the 11th century popularized knowledge and education at that time and created common people's culture. It also influenced the printing of the Gutenberg Bible (the first Bible printed with movable type) in Germany in the fifteenth century.
The historical status of the Song Dynasty is given the impression in many textbooks that it was "poor and weak", as if this was the entire history of the Song Dynasty. In fact, looking at ancient China, no dynasty can compare with the Song Dynasty in terms of people's wealth and happiness. As early as the Zhenzong Dynasty Prime Minister Wang Dan pointed out: "There are many people with assets in the capital of one million at most, and more than one hundred thousand."
To put it simply: the Song Dynasty was a powerful engine. The so-called "poor and weak" impression was just a problem with output and transformation, but the cultural output was the best in history.
Reading and painting, drinking tea and playing the piano, burning incense and ordering tea, and wearing hairpins for traveling are all spices that run through the lives of people in the Song Dynasty.
Jiang Xun once said: The life of the Song people is the example of a thousand years ago. Mr. Chen Yinke once said: Chinese culture "reached its peak in the Zhao and Song Dynasties".
The bustling and bustling city takes up 80% of our lives. At this time, when we look back at the life and aesthetics of the Song Dynasty again, do we feel a little bit of envy in our hearts?