A Glance At The Social Life In Liao Dynasty Through 《A Mission And Journey To Liao And Jin》

This thesis is divided into six part, main basis on the historical data of LiaoDynasty parts in 《The Record of Ambassador who go Liao Dynasty and JinDynasty》.The thesis mainly study he food and clothing lives the line, custometiquette and custom, the transportation of Song dynasty and Liao dynasty ,theliterary style amusement and the square of the social activities of every aspects.In a specific way and as follows:In the Chapter 1,the author elaborate the food of QianDan and seeingcircumstances of agriculture and livestock farming of QianDan.After QiDanestablished Liao Dynasty,it be subjected to Central plains Chinese the culturalinfluence,the agriculture economy contain quicker development, the traditionalfood habit of the person of Qi Dan still takes to have the strong hordecharacteristics, like, the habit meat milk, still drinks etc.The traditional economic way of QiDan is livestock husbandry and thefishing and hunting industries, producing the gradual development along with theagriculture, QiDan became the mode of production that agriculture and livestockhusbandries combine together.The ambassador record development of agricultureand herd the industry particularly in center city along Liao Dynasty road.Chapter 2 is divided into three sections, mainly studying the generation of thelives the way.Section 1 describes the emperor of QiDan to go the temple. Eventuallygeneration of Liao, the emperor of QiDan does not usually live in five palacesof the cities, but keep its horde to ride to shoot always, the custom of the fishingand hunting, live the life of Na Bo. At the place of Na Bo, the emperor of QiDanlives in then in the tent, the location of the QiDan emperor Na Bo woulds be theplace of go the temple. the ambassador go up north all the way, to 辽 towardhave the system of Na Bo of the race special features only to see in person tosmell in person, they some times go the temple to be solemn and impressiveamong the emperor of QiDan ,so the ambassador detailed the place of emperor ofQiDan can believe.Section 2 elaborated the five cities of Liao Dynasty where ambassadorlooked.In addition to the place of QiDan, the emperor of Qi Dan also has theflashing building palace, namely five city:Shang city, Medium city, South city,East city and west city. the ambassador who go to Liao Dynasy described the fivecity of Liao.The person of QiDan has the custom of do obeisance the day, so is the debt ofplace,house that the common people of QiDan live regardless, still the palacethat emperor reside, the door is all the east to.Section 3 details along the road see of generation of Liao common peoplereside. Local and each race of Liao is miscellaneous to reside, they live eachdifference of way:The person of Qidan much with the car debt is everywhere ishouse, local Han people, person of Bo Hai build the city to build the house tosettle down. Particularly worthy of emphasize is:Be placed in the person of Xi ofa south of Liao Dynasty because of under the influence of Chinese culture, theirproduction life style takes place to change very greatly, the majorities all live thelife of the half agriculture, living the way is settle down and livestock farming.Chapter 3 inquiried into the dress of Liao.This chapter is is divided into twosections, describing the dress the emperor QiDan and officer and common peopleof dress.The dress of the emperor of QiDan and the officer is divided into thedress of Gountry and Han.Its clothes make: The mother of the country and officerof Fan dress the clothes QiDan, king and officer of Han dress the clothes ofHan.But the common people of QiDan fo"rKun Fa Zuo Ren".The women of QiDan like polishing , particularly dress the cloths of FoThe person of QiDan with livestock farming and shoot to hunt for lord, so themain raw material of its dress is an animal furriery. The Hahn people and theperson of QiDan of the hinterland is miscellaneous to reside, already quick"HuHua" of its custom, but inhabitted Hahn people's dress of the Yan Yun region tothen experience a gradual "Hu Hua" process.Chapter 4 elaborated the transportation of Liao Dynasty.the ambassadordetailed route of travel to record. for example BaiGou to YouZhou ,YouZhou toMedium city, Medium city to Shang city.The person of Qi Dan pileup regard horse, car as principle, the car ship forassist.The Liao excels to build the car toward the inshore person of Xi , beingcalled"car of Xi". the ambassador go by car into Liao Dynasty.Moreover, the ambassador have description more to courier station and itsfacilitieses of the generation of Liao also. According to the ambassador of LuZheng from Bai Gou to Medium city,there are 20 stations.They once be greatkindness breadth by the Qi Dan country lord all to treat, they entertain guest tothe building facilities of and the enthusiasm of the person of Qi Dan all verysatisfied, but most ambassador not life of make it a rule the Liao , think thatbuilding is desolate and lonely, this has reflection more in their poem.Chapter 5 inquiried into the customs of Liao.This chapter is divided into fivesections, introducing the custom of marry and bury ,government of reception andthe Liao people's custom etc. The Liao Dynasty strict restrict nobility relates bymarriage with people of Shu , but for the sake of the benefits of the maintenanceruling class, the person upper level of the clan of QiDan and Han people, Bohaimember of relate by marriage the never interrupted lead.As for the custom of reception of Sung ambassador, we can carry on theunderstanding from go abroad as ambassador travel record or make the poem ofLiao .The Liao Dynasty establishes professional person who recept theambassador, the history cal"lthe building companion"o"r the companion make";For making the convenience of the board and lodging, the Liao Dynasty separatesthe certain distance to place one building of station namely each time on theinshore way. The ambassador arrive the Capital city, the emperor of QiDanusually establishes the temple party hospitality, and send the heavy minister indynasty to accompany , whenever The ambassador return, the emperor of QiDanstill sends them gift.From seeing the ambassador,the person is simple.They shoots well and huntas to living. The Fo Jiao is very widely accepted, the one who believe in goes tothe emperor up, empress imperial concubine, big minister, descend go to thecommon people.And inshore Han who own their people's custom also gradual"Hu Hua",because they live with the people of QiDan.Chapter 6 describes amuses for the literary style of Liao Dynasty .Itintroduced MaQiu JiaoDi BaiXi the activity of amusement and the dance of Liao,describing hook fish that the emperor of Qi Dan hold in the period of Na Bo thatwitness personally, catch the goose and round to hunt the deer tiger leopard etc. isvarious to ride to shoot the activity. And, because of a the whole country of Liaotop and bottom to Central plains the literatures all love very much, so the officialscontact with ambassador, also usually express the not vulgar widely read inliterature , once ambassador come to dynasty, they still usually opens theexhibition" pen meeting", inviting ambassador write a poem to endow with tolearn by exchanging views the ability and learning.In a word, writer mainly basis on《The Record of Ambassador who go LiaoDynasty and Jin Dynasty》.The writer choose a great deal of historical data withprecious from it.Writer study the food and clothing,customs,the transportation ofLiao Dynasty and Song Dynasty,the literary style amusement and the squareaspect of the social activities of etc. thus expands a new angle of view for theresearch of a social activities of Liao Dynasty.