The outer city has three gates in the south, two gates in the East, four gates in the north, three gates in the west, and many water gates.
The road is full of flowers, and there is no limit to spring outings.
Due to the original small scale of the palace city, Huizong of the Song dynasty built the new Yanfu palace in the North outside the palace city, which was actually an extension and expansion of the palace city.
A large number of ways such as diagonal bracing, X-shaped bracing, triangular bracing and rope ties are used.
The colored building is tied into the shape of a gate house with colored silk and colored paper at the door of the store; Huan gate is mostly used in the corridors of buildings.
Inside and outside the moat, willows and pink walls are planted, and people are forbidden to come and go.
This system shows that the city’s commerce is still at a low stage.
it is the only ukiyo painting and amorous feelings painting that comprehensively records Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty, and complements Zhang Zeduan’s picture of the river during the Qingming Festival, It can be called “the picture of the river during the Qingming Festival”.
Zhang Zeduan’s picture of the river during the Qingming Festival (part) shows the urban pattern before the Northern Song Dynasty.
There is a cross street between the East and West gates.
The peculiar smell of Huihuan district is found in the kitchen.
You will find yourself in a busy street at night.” Zhuque gate is one of the three gates of the southern wall of the old capital, facing due south.
You will find yourself in baokangmen street.
The colorful building stands in front of the store.
The city tower is magnificent.
All aspects of Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, are shown in a fresh appearance.
Kaifeng became the first open city in ancient China.
Many night markets in Kaifeng are operated all night long.
After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Meng Yuanlao, a descendant of the Northern Song Dynasty who lived in Bianjing for more than 20 years, recalled the life in Bianjing, which was “romantic, romantic and beautiful”.
Therefore, he combed the Bianjing style and people’s life in his memory and wrote a book called “Tokyo dream of China”, hoping that later generations would “open the book to see the prosperity of that time”.
The south of the street is the seat of the central government agencies, and the north of the Street is the living area of the emperor.
In the Tokyo dreamland, Meng Yuanlao wrote: “when you go out of the ZhuQueMen gate, you will find yourself in another family.
At night, business stops and the square door is closed.
The book describes almost everything from the scope of the capital to the imperial palace buildings, from the premises of the official offices to the neighborhoods in the city, from food and daily life to the season of the year, from singing, dancing and folk art to marriage and funeral customs.
The prevalence of night markets also reflects Kaifeng people’s attention to food.
The residential area is separated from the commercial area, that is, the “separation system of square and city”.
The rest are called foot stores.” Zhengdian, a large hotel with the right to make wine, has 72 hotels in Kaifeng; Foot shop is a hotel that has no wine making right and needs to wholesale wine from the main shop.
The gate is a three-story urn City, with flexible doors.
The city is separated from the city.
Only four doors are open, East, West, North and south.
The moat is called HuLong River, with a width of more than 10 Zhang.
Fanlou is the largest, most luxurious and the highest landmark building in Kaifeng among the 72 main stores..
According to the records of Meng Yuanlao, the development of a prosperous capital is inseparable from advanced urban planning and various facilities construction.
“The eight barren lands are in contention, and all countries have access to salt.
You will find yourself in a brothel outside the ZhuQueMen gate in the East, and you will find yourself in a new gate tile in the West.
It has a circumference of 20 Li.
He was afraid that it would take a long time, and later generations would say that it would be lost to the facts.
Among them, there are seven in the picture of the river during the Qingming Festival, some are hotels, some are restaurants, and some are incense shops.
Outside the city, there is a moat named HuLong river.
The eastern capital is outside the city, with a radius of more than 40 Li.
The Xiao and drum sound empty, and several night banquets.” This description comes from the preface of the author of the Tokyo dreamland.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, Kaifeng broke through this system, and the walls of isolation houses and cities were either destroyed or demolished.
There is a wall between the square and the city.
You can not only understand the folk customs and fashion at that time, but also feel the economy and prosperous urban life of the Song Dynasty.
The outer city, after reconstruction, has a circumference of 50 Li, a height of 4 Zhang, and magnificent city buildings.
According to the records of Meng Yuanlao, Kaifeng had three walls: Palace, inner and outer, which transformed the city into several areas.
It is bound with wooden rods.
It is made into a half moon shape with complex carvings.
” At the beginning of the Tokyo dreamland, it introduces the outer city of Tokyo.
The inner city, also known as the old city, is the old city of bianzhou in the Tang Dynasty.
They often recalled the prosperity of the old capital, so they wrote the Tokyo dreamland.
The treasures of the four seas belong to the city.
The palace city is the imperial city.
“Tokyo Menghua record” said: “there are 72 stores in Jingzheng.
Starting from these plans and buildings described in the book, this paper attempts to outline a dreamlike Tokyo.
You will go to the Maicao lane and Zhuangyuan building of the main street in the East, and you will find yourself in a brothel.
According to the records in the book, night markets sell all kinds of food from ZhuQueMen to longjinqiao.
There are colorful buildings in the turning at the gate painted by Tang Weixian in the south of the Five Dynasties and the picture of the river during the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan in the Song Dynasty.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, in front of hotels and restaurants, it was popular to use “colorful louhuan gate” as store decoration.
It is of great value for future generations to study the urban layout, architecture, transportation, various industries, folk customs, goods, diet, age, geography and even meteorology of the Song Dynasty.
The colorful buildings have different structures.
The book presents the layout planning of the city of Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty: from the outer city, the old capital, the Imperial City, the city gate, the river channel to the layout of streets and alleys, which visually reflects the characteristics of the triple nesting of the city walls of Tokyo, the openness and flexibility of the city gates of streets and alleys, and the axial symmetry of the political functional areas.
In Zhang Zeduan’s picture of the river during the Qingming Festival (part), Meng Yuanlao traced the prosperity of Tokyo, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, from Chongning to Xuanhe (1102-1125).
“Tokyo dream records” is a note style essay written by Meng Yuanlao in the Song Dynasty.
Except for two gates in the East, there are three gates on each side.
It was created in the second year of Jingkang reign of emperor qinzong of the Song Dynasty (1127 A.D.).
The Jin Dynasty destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Meng and Yuan Dynasties went to the south.
The book consists of ten volumes, which gives a full and accurate picture of the life and urban style of the nobility, the lower class and the common people in Tokyo, covering the urban layout, River streets, shops and stalls, daily life, eating, drinking and playing, old age goods, rules and regulations, customs and etiquette, etc.
It is tall and conspicuous.
Besides, you can’t count them.
It has a circumference of five li, three gates in the south, only one gate in the East, West and North.
You will find yourself in a brothel in the Shazhu Lane in the south, and you will find yourself in a teahouse in the East and West.
