I am Da Song

When Zhao Huan arrived at Hejian Mansion, Hejian Mansion was holding the Yuanshe School Art, and the Yuanshe was the Cuju Club, which was the Cuju competition in Hejian Mansion.

The Song Dynasty is really very different from the Qin and Han in the middle ages and the Ming and Qing feudalism.

This country is very open-minded in terms of openness to the people, inheriting the legacy of the Tang Dynasty.

A game, a lively rally, will often have tens of thousands of onlookers.

You must know that during the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were regulations for gatherings of three or more people to drink and drink.

Not to mention the Qing Dynasty, the wild boar skin would never dare to let tens of thousands of people gather together in an unorganized manner.

However, the cultural atmosphere of the Song government is extremely open and inclusive, and there are various collective performances every year.

The Cuju performance is one of the most popular in various entertainment cultures, and the other most popular is archery.

The reason why these two items are so prosperous is that they are naturally closely related to the royal family, especially the Taishang.

The royal family admired the art of archery, and the Taishang was especially fond of Cuju.

Therefore, the folk Cuju culture is extremely hot. The great poet Lu You once wrote a poem: "Thousands of people watch the Cuju field, and the swing flag is busy all spring."

The Cuju competition held by Hejian Mansion was a crowd of people. A large number of people gathered on the Cuju field outside Hejian Mansion from all directions to watch today's match.

There are about 5 or [-] people in the Cuju field, three floors inside and three floors outside, and there are people of all ages, men, women and children.

Women even make up the majority.This is mainly because the cultural activities in the Song Dynasty are much less than those in the later Internet era, so women who are free also participate in Cuju games in large numbers.

Most of the Cuju pictures preserved in later generations are pictures of women participating in Cuju with skirts.

But in terms of viewing, competitiveness and enthusiasm, it has to be a men's Cuju competition.

Zhao Huan led He Qinhu and Wei Sheng into the arena, and found that it was more lively than it looked outside.

The core fans are all here, mainly divided into two parties, one with a red silk scarf on his forehead, and one with a white silk scarf tied on his forehead.

These two colors, regardless of superiority or inferiority, are the colors most respected by the royal family of Song Dynasty.

There was a clear distinction between the two sides, and they cheered loudly at the top of their voices.

In the arena, a green hut has been set up, and Zhizhou Hejian sits under the green hut, with his back to the screen and facing the stadium.

The distance was too far, and Zhao Huan couldn't hear what he was saying clearly. He was probably encouraging the two teams.

In front of him, there were 32 players standing on one left and one on the right.

The Cuju team of the Song Dynasty is somewhat different from that of Houshi. Each side has 16 people, and the same duties are defined, from the ball head, the kicker, to the front, the left pole, the right pole, etc., everything that one expects to find.

What attracted Zhao Huan's attention the most was that each of the 32 players from the two teams wore neat, silky brand-new team uniforms, all of which were made of silk.

You know, at this moment, in the same world, the people of Indy still wear the same pair of trousers, the Byzantines can’t even eat semolina bread, the Europeans are still hungry and rob, and the Russians wear sackcloth to resist the severe cold. And the villagers beside the Besli Canal ran around with their upper body bare and bare feet.

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Most of the common people in these places, let alone wearing silk clothes, have never even seen what silk cloth looks like.They have only heard that this precious cloth comes from the far east, and it is said to be smoother than the clouds in the sky.

But in the Song Dynasty, on an ordinary court, all the players wore neat silk clothes, which shows the development of the textile industry in the Song Dynasty and the wealth of folk wealth.

Every time this kind of gathering, there are naturally some salesmen and women who sell goods.

They brought all kinds of fruits, candied fruit, jerky and nuts, as well as candy, clay figurines, and candied haws that children like. Zhao Huan even saw some selling iced drinks and ice cream.

It is really a bustling scene, showing the prosperity of the Song Dynasty in every way. What's more gratifying is that Zhao Huan is convinced that this kind of prosperity can be maintained in the ordinary years of the Central Plains Dynasty as long as there is no military disaster.

A little girl who was only four feet tall, about thirteen or fourteen years old, carried the tray in front of her body with a strap, walked up to Zhao Huan with a large amount of groceries, and said crisply: "Mr. Is it? Watching a football game must have bickering to enjoy it more."

Zhao Huan raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Your parents are using child labor, why didn't you go to school today?"

The little girl was not afraid of people, and said bluntly: "The school has closed the activity class, let us practice freely."

"Free practice?" Zhao Huan smiled and said to the two guards on the left and right: "I think back when I was in school, there was no such rich teaching content."

He Qinhu asked in surprise: "Aren't there any senior officials? When I was in school, I had a lot of practical classes, but I went to the Yinglue Club to wield knives and sticks."

Wei Sheng nodded and said, "I'm similar. I went to the bow and arrow club. But the most troublesome thing is to write a summary after the practical class. My professor at the time was an old professor who graduated from Nanjing Royal Women's College. He has taught more than ten years. In [-], it was very strict, I copied someone else’s after-school summary, and was beaten severely when I was discovered.”

Zhao Huan was a little out of balance. It turns out that you guys were so wonderful when you were in school.

So Zhao Huan asked the little girl: "Then what kind of practical class did you take, little girl?"

The little girl rolled her eyes with a smile, and immediately replied, "I'm in business. I can take classes and make money, am I smart?"

"My classmate also designs clothes. She plans to go to the Royal Academy of Art in Tokyo for further study, and then work as a fashion designer in a large chaebol."

"There is also Xiaoyi. She plans to learn elegant music and is performing on the sidelines. She dreams of studying music at the Royal Nanjing Women's College. If she can apply for a job in the Jiaofang Division, she will be an employee of the royal family and enjoy the benefits of the royal consortium. Welfare."

Zhao Huan envied his heart sourly.

At the same age, they are not the same color at all.

At this moment, Zhao Huan had to admit that the quality education that he had never experienced did have a different charm and strength.

Just like her classmate who studies fashion design, when she returns from the Royal Academy of Art, she will be a top designer immediately.Whether it is their own salary and worth, or the wealth created.That is beyond the reach of an ordinary farmer.

Even if she is just a weak woman, she is still an extremely important part of industrial production, and it will greatly promote the prosperity of civilization and the harvest of wealth.

Her classmate, who studies gala music, has a direct effect on cultural soft power.

Cultural soft power has always been the trump card of the Central Plains. A strong culture and advanced civilization always make the civilizations around it yearn for and follow suit.

It can be said that the Song Dynasty used cultural soft power to directly attract countless countries to abandon their own civilization and directly copy the culture of the Central Plains.

In terms of cultural soft power, the lethality of the Song Dynasty is not weaker than that of the military.