How did the Song Dynasty show off its wealth: a gold belt, a glass bowl and a daughter?

In the Song Dynasty, there were many black spots in various grooves, but one bright spot was almost recognized by later generations: money! According to the data provided by the History of Kaifeng City, the per capita GDP of Kaifeng is equivalent to 2000 dollars now, but if only Bianjing City is counted, the per capita GDP is more than 4000 dollars.

Song Zhenzong Prime Minister Wang Dan said? Capital assets, up to several million (infiltration), hundreds of thousands, are everywhere.

Nowadays, throwing a brick in the street can kill a college student, and throwing a stone in the street to Bianjing in the Song Dynasty can hit a rich second generation.

How did the local tyrants in Song Dynasty show off their wealth?

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Rare glass gem

Speaking of Song Dynasty utensils, that Song porcelain is absolutely second to none. For example, the Ding Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty auctioned on 20 14 drew an octagonal bowl, which was finally sold at a sky-high price of HK$ 654.38+46.84 million.

Although modern people regard Song porcelain as a treasure, people in Song Dynasty did not take it seriously. Love love love in Tokyo lists the court tableware of the Northern Song Dynasty, and only mentions all kinds of gold and silver utensils. The last one is a red lacquer wooden plate, and none of them is porcelain.

People in the Song Dynasty also played collecting. They collect calligraphy and painting, ancient jade, Zhong Ding and bronzes, but not porcelain. In their minds, no matter which dynasty porcelain is just a kind of daily necessities, and it is a very cheap daily necessities.

To know how cheap Song porcelain is, just look at the unearthed Song porcelain. Brown glazed porcelain melon bowl with a price of "30 Wen" unearthed in Fujian. Thirty can only buy a barrel of wheat in Kaifeng, the capital!

Ding Yao Hua ba leng da wan in northern song dynasty

What did people like in Song Dynasty? Yes, it is glass!

In the book Treasure Goods in Song Dynasty, glass was compared with gold and silver, jade, agate, crystal, amber, coral, pearl, cat's eye, tortoise shell, rhinoceros horn, ivory, Long Xianxiang and other valuables, saying that there were domestic glass tableware at that time, but the quality was not as good as that of imported goods. Nanfan wine color purple cup, dishes cup into the eye fine? Glassware imported into China is of high quality and very rare.