The Exploration On Leisure Life Of Song Dynasty

Song Dynasty is an important period in the social development of the ancient China. With the development of agriculture, handicraft industry and the prosperity of commercial economy, there appear some new changes in every social area, especially the public of Song Dynasty starting to enter the stage of history, which much activates the whole social life of Song Dynasty. It is these new changes that cause more attention in academic research. As an important part of the social life- leisure life, it also shows characteristics different from the previous era in Song Dynasty. This paper mainly explores the leisure life of Song Society in the following parts and restores people's life style at that time.Part One mainly discusses the causes of the social leisure's atmosphere of Song Dynasty. Although the two regimes of Song Dynasty exist side by side with the minority authorities, yet keep a peace overall for a long time. And this good and stable social environment provides a premise for people to carry out a variety of cultural and leisure activities. At the same time, the exchanges between different ethnic groups further increase the content of leisure activities, and make leisure activities more colorful. Various leisure activities of Song Dynasty are also based on the development of agriculture, handicraft industry and the prosperity of commercial economy. However, because of the collapse of the system and the relaxation of opening hours bringing the city to change in the pattern, this provides convenient conditions for the leisure activities of Song Dynasty. Of course, the recluse's ideas of these three religions-Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism in this period, as well as the popularity of the luxurious style also play an important role in the leisure activities.Part Two to Part Seven respectively discusses the specific form of Song Dynasty's leisure life, including the leisure life in these aspects of holiday, tourism, sports, college and health and so on. In the holiday leisure life, with the development of the commercial economy in Song Dynasty, it points out that the festivals are greatly celebrated and the contents become more after the traditional festivals are combined with commercial activities. In the aspect of tourism leisure, it shows characteristics of Song Dynasty's tourism, by respectively investigating these aspects of Song Dynasty's tourism resources, tourism groups and ways of tourism activities. In the aspect of sports leisure, it reveals entertainment and leisure of Song Dynasty, vie some activities such as Kickball, sumo, which provides recreation and relaxation for people and has a profound impact on people's lifestyle and spirit of Song Dynasty. Song Dynasty is the flourishing period of the College's development, and the Colleges have these three major functions of lectures, books and worship; in addition to these, the Colleges become the relaxing public places for scholars because of the beautiful natural scenery, rich cultural landscapes and perfect recreational facilities. People pay great attention to health in Song Dynasty, and they inherit the traditional health theory and leave behind a great many poetries and a series of valuable health experience, therefore, developing a unique health concept. These provide useful experience for modern people to keep health.Part Eight discusses the influences of Song Dynasty's leisure life. In Song Dynasty, people carry out various leisure activities on the basis of the development of agriculture, handicraft industry and the prosperity of commercial economy, which not only enriches people's spiritual life, but also further stimulates the development of handicraft industry and commerce and increases government revenue. Besides, at the same time, this provides materials for the literature creation of Song Dynasty, and appears a number of enduring literary and artistic works.In short, through the discussion on the leisure life of Song Dynasty, we not only have a understanding of Song Dynasty's atmosphere of social leisure and entertainment, but also know more about Song Dynasty in a further step, which helps us to understand the development and changes Song Dynasty's social life.