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A drill-tiller (louchu) from the Nong shu, Yuan dynasty. The Song period witnessed a rapid expansion of commercial cash crops such as tea, sugar, mulberry, and indigo. [12] Tea became one of seven common household items - the others being rice, salt, soy sauce, cooking oil, vinegar, and charcoal - during the Song dynasty. Tea houses became a ...
A work of enormous breadth, the History of Song contains more than 2,000 individual historical biographies, more than twice as many as the Old Book of Tang that chronicles the history of the Early Tang dynasty. In the section of the book covering Song dynasty records there are fifteen separate categories viz: astronomy, the system of five ...
The Song dynasty (/ s ʊ ŋ / SUUNG) was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Ten Kingdoms, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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It is a precursor to true banknotes which appeared during the Song dynasty. According to the New Book of Tang , in the year 804, merchants were using flying cash. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Between 805 and 820 there was a shortage of copper cash coins which proved to be a hindrance for daily business transactions in the Tang dynasty.
Besides the Jiaozi, Qianyin, and Guanzi the Huizi had become the most important form of paper currency during the Southern Song dynasty and was used for daily business transactions as well as for tax collecting and the usage of Huizi notes had also spread to the western and northern areas of the empire.
The Cholas were a powerful south Indian dynasty known for military conquests, grand temples and shaping global trade and culture. Temples, treasures and trade: The astonishing legacy of India's ...
The Yuanfeng Jiuyu Zhi (元豐九域志; "The Yuanfeng Treatise of the Nine Regions") is a 1085 Chinese geographical treatise written by Song dynasty scholars Wang Cun (王存), Zeng Zhao (曾肇) and Li Dechu (李德芻). "Yuanfeng" is an era name corresponding to the years 1078-1085 during Emperor Shenzong of Song's reign. Containing 10 ...