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The Historical Value of “Tokyo Menghualu”
Tokyo Menghualu” is a handwritten prose written by Meng Yuanlao in the Song Dynasty.
The author Meng Yuanlao (year of birth and death to be tested), nicknamed Youlan Jushi, was born in Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo (now Kaifeng, Henan) in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a writer.
According to the “Song Huiyao Collection” and the works of Su Zhe and others, it can be known that he is Meng Yue, a clan member of Meng Changling, a scholar of the Baohe Temple in the Northern Song Dynasty. .
If we want to know the real life of people in the Song Dynasty, we might as well take a look at the work “Tokyo Menghualu”.
“Tokyo Menghualu” generally includes the following aspects: the outer city of the capital, the inner city and river bridges, the distribution and location of government offices inside and outside the imperial palace, the streets and lanes in the city, shops and restaurants, court meetings, and suburban festivals. At that time, the Han nationality’s folk customs, seasonal festivals, food and living, singing and dancing, etc. in Tokyo at that time were almost all-encompassing.
After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Meng Yuan traveled to the south and wrote this note, not only to express his longing for the customs of his homeland, but also to let future generations remember the glory of the past.
The preface of Meng Yuanlao recalled the prosperity of the year: “Just under the chariot, there is a long period of peace and prosperity, and the characters are prosperous. The boy with a long hair, but he is good at encouraging, and the old man with gray hair does not know how to fight. The seasons vary, and each has its own appreciation: Lantern night, moonlight, snow and flowers, begging for cleverness to climb high, teaching ponds and gardens.
Looking up, you can see brothels and painting pavilions, beautiful household bead curtains. Carved cars compete in Tianjie, BMWs compete on imperial roads, golden emeralds shine, Luo Qi floats Fragrance. The new voice laughs cleverly in the Liumo flower lane, and tunes the strings in the tea house and wine shop according to the pipe. The eight wastelands compete, the salty world of the world is connected, and the treasures of the four seas are collected, all returned to the market, and the peculiar smell of the Huihuan District is all in the kitchen. The road is full of flowers, what is the limit to spring outings, flutes and drums, and a few night banquets? Skillful tricks will surprise the eyes and ears, and extravagance will enhance the spirit of the person.”
Opening it is like opening the door of time and space, and on the other side is the blooming flowers that are separated by thousands of years.
Even if we measure it from the perspective of a livable city, it still has all the indicators: the shops and hotels are next to each other, decorated with Li Cheng’s landscape paintings, the tableware is all silver, and it is even more delicious to taste seasonal fruits and vegetables and North-South delicacies. is a cinch. The nightlife is rich. “The night market didn’t reopen until the third watch, and then reopened at the fifth watch.
It’s like a place to play, and you can know it all.” There are places for cultural consumption such as Goulan tiles, staged speeches, small singing, puppets, acrobatics, etc. The citizens watched happily, “Don’t judge people by the wind, rain, cold and heat, but the sheds, every day.”
The book “Tokyo Menghualu” has detailed records and detailed discussions of the social, economic and cultural life of the Han nationality in Bianjing during the reigns of Huizong Zhenghe and Xuanhe, leaving a legacy for future generations to explore the various strata of Bianjing in that era. A large amount of valuable information on the life of residents.
Since it was published in Lin’an in the early Southern Song Dynasty, it has been valued by people. Literati in the feudal society, when talking about the anecdotes of Tokyo in the late Northern Song Dynasty, all cited this book first, such as Zhao Shengzhi’s “Zhongxing Legacy History”, Chen Yuanliang’s “Sui Shi Guang Ji” and Tao Zongyi’s “Shuo Yu”. Some of the materials are selected.
In modern times, due to the high value of social, economic and cultural history, it has attracted the attention of many Chinese and foreign scholars and experts engaged in various historical research, and they have quoted and used it.
People often regard this book and “Surfing the River During the Qingming Festival” as sister works, both of which are of great significance to the work of investigating and studying the history of urban economic development in the Northern Song Dynasty.
“Tokyo Menghualu” created a new style of describing the customs, customs, anecdotes and famous things of Han Chinese cities with notes, and provided a basis for similar works “Capital Jisheng”, “Menglianglu”, “Old Stories of Wulin” and “Ru “Dream Record”, “Continuation of Tokyo Dream Record” and other books are still used.
