1. The importance of clothing
Du Fu's "The Journey of Beauties" begins with a scene of a group of aristocratic women playing by the water, and the description of their clothing is also extremely luxurious:
The weather is new on March 3rd, and there are many beautiful people by the waterfront in Chang'an.
The attitude is strong, the meaning is far-reaching and true, and the texture is fine and even.
The embroidered clothes shine in late spring, and the golden peacocks and silver unicorns frown.
What's on your head? Green leaves hang down the temples.
What can you see behind it? The beads press the waistband to stabilize the body.
The silk and satin is flowing elegantly in the spring breeze, with peacocks embroidered in gold and unicorns carved in silver; the head is decorated with jade-carved flowers, and the waist is decorated with a belt made of jewels. Such magnificence shows that the treasury at that time was sufficient and the craftsmanship was highly developed. The fashion of the Tang Dynasty was as luxurious as ever.
2. Food expenses are abundant
Whether it is Li Bai's "Lanling fine wine tulips, jade bowls filled with amber light." or Du Fu's "Recalling the heyday of Kaiyuan in the past, Xiao The city still has thousands of households. The rice is dripping with fat and the corn is white. The public and private warehouses are full of food."
The jade bowls are filled with tulip-like wine, and the abundant grains are about to overflow the granaries, which all reveal the food of the Tang Dynasty. The reserves of the Tang Dynasty were sufficient, the people were food-oriented, and the country was based on grain. In a feudal society with a small peasant economy as its theme, the Tang Dynasty not only managed to select and store food, but was even rich enough to consider the level of food in the long term. Food habits formed.
3. The exquisiteness of house construction
In the Tang Dynasty, the development of architecture reached a mature period. Wang Wei once wrote a poem "The Works of Daming Palace in the Early Dynasty with Jia Sheren", in which "Nine heavens closed the palace, and all nations paid homage to Mian Liu." This describes the scene of the morning dynasty at that time. Hundreds of officials walked into the glorious palace at dawn, and kowtowed to the crowned emperor together with envoys from all nations, which shows the prosperity and prosperity.
The sun shines on the head of Jincheng, and the light scatters on the flower building.
The gold window clips the embroidered door, and the bead foil hangs with a silver hook.
In the green clouds of the flying ladder, my eyes are far away from my worries.
Li Bai's poem "Ascend the Sanhua Tower in Jincheng" is really gorgeous in terms of words. The gold windows, bead foil, and flying ladders delicately depict the proficiency of the architectural decoration art at that time.
Let’s look at Du Mu’s "Hundred Passes through the Huaqing Palace": "Looking back at Chang'an, there are piles of embroidery, and thousands of doors are opening one after another on the top of the mountain." It is written that when people look back at Lishan Mountain in Chang'an, they are like piles of brocade. The thousand doors of Shanghua Qing Palace opened one after another. It can be seen that the Tang Dynasty's engineering projects were fully funded, and the palaces on the distant mountains were built without hesitation.