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7 unusual facts about Song dynasty


Chaoshan

Nanxi is one of the oldest Chinese operas that originated in the Song Dynasty.

Gongfu tea (工夫茶), the 'espresso' of Chinese teas with a formidable kick, which was first sipped back in the Song Dynasty, is still flourishing and remains an important part of social etiquette in Chaozhou.

Daiwie Fu

His areas of research are gender and sexuality related to modern medicine in Taiwan and biji and the cultural history of science in the Song Dynasty.

Duke Yansheng

The 11th-century Song Emperor Renzong later elevated the 46th-generation descendant to the rank of duke (gong).

Ninghai County

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Privy Council Secretary Zheng Lin, the Right Prime Minister Ye Mengding and the historian Hu Sansheng, litterateur Shu Yueyang took official posts in the Court, together with the powerful minister Jia Sidao.

Xidi

First built during the Huangyou era (1049–1053) of Song Dynasty Emperor Renzong, the village was originally called Xichuan (West River), owing to the various water courses flowing through it.

Yuan Yida

He led the research on an updated, 2006 version of the Hundred Family Surnames, a text of popular surnames originally published in the Song Dynasty, encompassing 4100 surnames from 296 million individuals in 1110 counties.


Biographies of Exemplary Women

The online Chinese Text Initiative at the University of Virginia provides an e-text edition of the Lienu Zhuan, including both digitized Chinese content and images of a Song Dynasty woodblock edition with illustrations by Gu Kaizhi 顧凱之 (ca. 344-405 CE) of the Jin Dynasty.

Che people

For example, in one incident, Che salt producers on Lantau Island in Hong Kong attacked the city of Canton in a revolt during the Song dynasty.

Gao Qiu

Gao Qiu (died 1126) was a government official who served Emperor Huizong during the Song Dynasty.

Emperor Huizong allows the Liangshan heroes to embark on military campaigns against the enemies of the Song Dynasty, including the Liao Dynasty and the rebel forces of Fang La, Tian Hu and Wang Qing.

Genpei War

In June, Kiyomori moved the seat of imperial power to Fukuhara (modern day Kobe), in the hope of promoting trade with Song Dynasty China, and on the fifteenth of that month, Prince Mochihito fled Kyoto to take refuge in Mii-dera.

Gongbi

These paintings peaked out between the Tang and Song Dynasties (7th to 13th centuries) when these refined paintings were endorsed and collected by the royal families of China.

History of printing in East Asia

The history of printing in East Asia starts with the use of woodblock printing on cloth during the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) and later paper (in Imperial Court as early as the 1st century, or around 80 AD), and continued with the invention of wooden movable type by East Asian artisans in Song China by the 11th century.

History of Song

A total of seven chapters contain biographies of traitors and rebels including Cai Jing, Huang Qianshan (黃潛善), Qin Hui, Zhang Bangchang (張邦昌) and Liu Yu (劉豫) whilst the four chapters on Confucian scholars feature individuals such as Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhang Zai and Zhu Xi

Hong Kong Dragon Garden

Apart from the characteristics of Sung, Ming and Qing dynasties and the influences from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, it also incorporates some Western elements into the architecture.

Irgen Gioro

According to a famous tale, the ancestors of Irgen Gioros were the Emperor Huizong, Qinzong and other royal family members of Song Dynasty who was captured by the Jurchens in the Jingkang Incident of the Jin–Song wars.

J.J.L. Duyvendak

In 1942, Duyvendak published one of the first articles in a Western language on the Crab Nebula supernova as observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 during the Song dynasty.

Kakuni

During the Ming Dynasty and Song Dynasty, the main Sino-Japanese trading route existed between Hangzhou and Kyūshū.

Laba congee

The consumption of Laba congee is to commemorate the Song Dynasty general Yue Fei, who is widely regarded as a patriot and national hero in Chinese culture.

Li Tao

Li Tao's father Li Zhong (李中), a 15th-generation descendant of Li Si, passed the imperial examination in Song Dynasty in 1109 and was well known for his knowledge in history and the classics.

Liu Zhiqian

It should be noted that the inconsistency existed despite the fact that the Song Dynasty historian Ouyang Xiu was the lead editor of both the New Book of Tang and the New History of the Five Dynasties.

Lý Anh Tông

In 1164, the relation between the Lý Dynasty and the Song Dynasty had a significant change when the Emperor Xiaozong of Song decided to acknowledge Đại Việt as a kingdom, the Kingdom of Annam (An Nam quốc), instead of only a district, the District of Giao Chỉ (Giao Chỉ quận) which was a designation made by his predecessors.

Meng Huo You

The earliest mention of "rock oil" (石油), the Chinese name for petroleum, is by a book "Grand Peace Records" from the Northern Song Dynasty, and officially designated the current name by Song Dynasty scientist Shen Kuo using the description found in his famous book Dream Pool Essays.

Ming Dynasty painting

Before he went to Ming China, he studied Song and Yuan styles of painting (Chinese/Japanese: 宋元山水畫派) in Japan, and wanted to seek for the very origin of the Chinese painting and the real spirit inside of the Chinese art.

Mount Qingyuan

There are also the "Four Superlatives" which include the stone statue of Laozi from the Song Dynasty, the Vedic stone statues of Buddha for Three Lives, the holy Islamic tombs and the pray for wind stone inscriptions.

Northern Landscape style

The Northern Landscape style was a manner of Chinese landscape painting centered around a loose group of artists who worked and lived in Northern China during the Five Dynasties period that occupied the time between the collapse of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Song.

Pen Huo Qi

The flamethrower was carefully documented and illustrated in the Chinese military manual known as the Wujing Zongyao, compiled in the year 1044 AD during the Song Dynasty.

Sesshū Tōyō

Shūbun's style, like that of most Japanese Zen painters, was inspired by Chinese Song Dynasty painters such as Ma Yuan, Xia Gui, Guo Xi, and others.

As is usual for the period and the work of Sesshū's teacher Tenshō Shūbun, style and technique are heavily influenced by Song Dynasty Chinese paintings, in particular the works of Xia Gui.

Shaoxing

Lu You (陸游), 1125–1210, poet and literati of the Southern Song period

Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry

The lesser known poets chronicled in this work originated from several sources, including the 5th Century, the 6th Century, the early and late poetry of the Tang Dynasty, many Shi poems from the Song Dynasty, and Qu poems from periods after the Song Dynasty.

Suzhou Museum

The collection of paintings and calligraphy includes works of masters from Song Dynasty to Ming and Qing dynasties.

The Ancient Lounge Bridge of China

Qingming Festival on the River is a famous painting from the Song dynasty.

Tianshui

Nearby are the Maijishan Grottoes, filled with thousands of Buddhist sculptures representing figures such as Buddha and the original male form of Guanyin, produced between the Wei and Song dynasties by monks travelling along the road and by local Buddhists.

Western Xia

However, it would not be until 1038 that the Tangut chieftain Li Yuanhao, Li Deming's son, who also ordered the creation of a Tangut writing system and the translation of Chinese classics into Tangut, named himself emperor of Da Xia, and demanded of the Song emperor recognition as an equal.

Yamato-e

From the Muromachi period (15th century), the term Yamato-e has been used to distinguish work from contemporary Chinese style paintings (Kara-e), which were inspired by Chinese Song and Yuan era ink wash paintings.


see also

Chongyang

Wang Chongyang (1113 – 1170), Chinese Taoist in the Song Dynasty

Deng Guangming

Wang Anshi's Political Reforms During the Northern Song Dynasty (北宋政治改革家王安石)

Donglin

Donglin Academy, academy established in the Northern Song dynasty at present-day Wuxi in China

Emperor Huizong of Song

He himself wrote the famous Treatise on Tea, the most detailed and masterful description of the Song dynasty sophisticated style of tea ceremony.

Empress Dowager Wang

Empress Wang Zhenfeng (王貞風) (436–479), empress dowager of the Liu Song Dynasty, Emperor Houfei's stepmother

Empress Wang Xianyuan (王憲嫄) (427–464), empress dowager of the Liu Song Dynasty, Emperor Qianfei's mother

Gibbon

Later on, gibbons became a popular object for Chinese painters, especially during the Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, when Yì Yuánjí and Mùqī Fǎcháng excelled in painting these apes.

Glazed tile

During the Song Dynasty, the manufacture of glazed tiles was standardized in Li Jie's Architecture Standard.

Guangfeng County

The temple has a history over 1000 years, the famous poet of South Song dynasty, Xin Qiji was toured it often.

Guangzong

Emperor Guangzong of Song (1147 – 1200), Chinese emperor of the Song Dynasty

Guiyi Circuit

During this period the Guiyi Circuit had sent delegations to the Later Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty backed by the Liao Dynasty of the Khitans, the Liao Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, the Later Zhou Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty.

History of scrolls

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Justice Bao

Bao Zheng (999–1062 AD), legendary official in China's Song Dynasty and the Chinese symbol of justice

Liu Songnian

He was active from about 1190-1230 and is considered one of the Four Masters of the Southern Song dynasty, which also included Li Tang, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui.

Liu Yu

Emperor Wu of Liu Song (363-422), name Liu Yu (劉裕), founder of the Liu Song Dynasty

Mongol invasion of East Asia

Mongol invasion of China, lasting six decades, culminated with the fall of the Chinese Song Dynasty in 1276

Piri

During the reign of King Yejong of Goryeo dynasty, another double-reed cylindrical instrument was imported from Song dynasty China, and to disambiguate, the former was named hyang piri and the latter dang piri.

The Patriot Yue Fei

Shi Yanjing as Zhao Ji (Emperor Huizong), the eighth ruler of the Song Dynasty and the father of the emperors Qinzong and Gaozong.

Transmission of the Lamp

The first two characters of the title are the Song dynasty reign name (景德), which dates the work to between 1004 and 1007 CE.

Wujing

Wujing Zongyao (武經總要, Chinese military compendium written in 1044 AD, during the Northern Song Dynasty

Xiren

Bao Zheng (999-1062), whose courtesy name was Xiren (希仁), an official of the Northern Song Dynasty