"Eight wastelands are fighting to make things happen, and all nations are connected" is how historians describe the prosperity of Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo.
Song Dynasty poet Lin Sheng once wrote a poem "Inscribed on Lin'an Residence":
"Outside the Qingshan Tower outside the mountain, when will the singing and dancing in the West Lake stop? The warm wind makes the tourists drunk Hangzhou becomes Bianzhou!”
The Bianzhou in this poem is Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, people regarded Kaifeng as a benchmark. No matter where the prosperous scene was described, Kaifeng City was always used as the comparison object.
Thus we can know the prosperity of Kaifeng at that time and its important position in people's minds. The author believes that the city of Tokyo at that time, also known as Kaifeng, was absolutely the most magnificent in the world, and its prosperity had reached its peak.
As the political, economic and cultural center of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was also the most prosperous metropolis in the world at that time. The grand scene of Kaifeng is definitely a scene that no one can imagine. When future generations write history books, they will spare no effort to boast of Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.
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The Northern Song Dynasty was a feudal centralized dynasty that absolutely cannot be ignored in ancient Chinese history. Although it is relatively weak politically, it is a leader in economic and cultural aspects. On the basis of a highly developed commodity economy, Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, once became the largest city in the world at that time.
Whether it is economic development or cultural life, Kaifeng not only crushes the capitals of other dynasties without any pressure, but also in terms of city size and population, there are few capitals that can compete with Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo. Very few. Although Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, had reached unprecedented prosperity, Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo was even better.