Why did pleasure prevail in Song Dynasty?

However, Song people's detachment and philosophical attitude sometimes become too utilitarian, which forms another feature of Song people's attitude towards life-the prevalence of hedonism. Under the condition of enjoyment, Song Taizu once released his power and lifted the power of etiquette by drinking a glass of wine. Since then, the wind of pleasure has prevailed. On the one hand, scholar-officials caused the prevalence of singing and dancing, feasting and extravagant life, on the other hand, they also promoted the general improvement of cultural literacy, promoted the synchronous prosperity of all kinds of knowledge, art and skills, and cultivated the atmosphere of playing with literature from the perspective of poetic art and academics. In the aspect of life thought, the subjective rational consciousness of Neo-Confucianism and the life philosophy of Buddhism and Taoism, especially Zen, reflected the scholar-officials and intellectuals' willingness to seek personality development while obeying the feudal state in this period, which deepened their life thinking. Therefore, on the one hand, a large number of literary works such as poetry and wine wandering, singing and entertainment, and taking part in accidental amusement appeared in the Song Dynasty, forming a creative atmosphere of cutting words and refining sentences, showing off knowledge and pursuing charm. Literary themes extend to trivial matters or life aspects that have not been involved by predecessors, such as serving children and servants, holiday customs, quarrels between people and foreigners, and so on. On the other hand, it also uses more space to taste life and appreciate nature. The literature of Song Dynasty not only fully shows the secular and vulgar side of literati, but also shows their rich emotional needs and even snobbish and corrupt nature, and also shows their life troubles and mental pains that they can't get rid of, expressing their yearning for a better human nature and a free life. On the one hand, the secularization and individuation of Song Dynasty literature penetrated into various forms of scholar-bureaucrat literature, and poems were very popular, such as exquisite and unique works, essays, poems about objects, machine-made poems, inscriptions, notes, prose poems and so on. On the other hand, it echoes the emerging form of citizen literature, and the creation of literati is also influenced by the interest of citizen literature.