Through Water Margin's Lens: Decoding Song Dynasty Society/水浒寻宋 [Chinese]

By Yu Yunguo

"Recapture the vibrant tapestry of Song Dynasty life, Recreating the daily rhythm of its citizens-their clothing, food, dwellings, pastimes, and every stride in between.

还原活色生香的宋朝生活，复现市民的衣食住行玩。

Yu Yunguo, a renowned historian of the Song Dynasty, relied on his decades long research on Song history in his book ""Water Margin: Searching for Song"". With his profound and extensive knowledge, he permeated through official history, notes, and novels, using a narrative style to narrate the various social customs and traditions of the Song Dynasty. He opened up a new perspective on the world that had not been fully explored in ""Water Margin"" and restored the novel as a three-dimensional and dynamic ""Along the River during the Qingming Festival"", recreating the vibrant and colorful Song Dynasty.

Readers can follow the author's brushstrokes to witness the solemn and grand Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting and Mingtang Grand Ceremony, appreciate the pleasure of drinking with hairpin flowers, composing poems and lyrics, watching the tide and listening to music, carving green cuju, stroll through the imperial streets of the Song Dynasty, taste the pancakes in the morning market, stop and listen to the unique Taiping songs on the streets, climb up the fan tower, find a secluded pavilion, enjoy singing a hundred plays, rent a mountain sedan chair, hairpin a flower, visit Xiangguo Temple in Tokyo, and watch the Qiantang tide in Hangzhou

宋史名家虞云国在《水浒寻宋》一书中，依托其数十年宋史研究成果，用深厚广博的学识贯穿正史、笔记及小说，以娓娓道来的笔调讲述宋朝社会风俗百态，以全新的角度打开《水浒传》中不曾被尽览的世界，将小说复原为一幅立体、动态的《清明上河图》，重现活色生香、斑斓多彩的大宋王朝。

读者可以跟随作者的笔触，去观瞻庄严盛大的正旦大朝会、明堂大典，领略簪花饮酒、赋诗填词、观潮听曲、雕青蹴鞠的风流快活，逛两宋的御街，品尝早市上的炊饼，驻足聆听街头路歧人的太平歌，登上樊楼，寻个僻静阁子，欣赏着小唱百戏，租一顶山轿，簪上一枝花，游东京的相国寺，看杭州的钱塘潮......

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 7208163243
• ISBN13: 9787208163249
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: China National Publications Import & Export C
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"