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TheStoryof China（3）
1．The History of The Song Dynasty
Golden age
I. Script
In the tenth century,China almost broke apart forever in civil war.The soldier poet Wang Renyu witnessedthe destruction of his country.The barbarians have overthrown the Tang Dynasty, he wrote.Our cities have been abandoned.Our temple courtyards lie in ruin.China has entered a truly dark time.But things cannot go on like this forever.The way surely has not been finally lost.I believe heaven will soon announce a new dynasty.And in around the year 960,it did.In the West, we see history as the riseand fall of different civilisations.In China, theres one civilisation, which has gone throughcycles of order and disorder.And in the Middle Ages, like Europe after the Second World War,the Chinese set out to build a brave new world.In the story of China, weve reached the Song Dynasty.Were in the city of Kaifeng in the middle of China.
“Mushroom!”
“Mushroom, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK.”
A thousand years ago, this was the greatestand most exciting place on Earth.Its creativity and inventiveness surpassedand of course preceded the European Renaissance.In the Song Renaissance, the Chinese set out to make the mostenlightened society on Earth,with the best governance,housing and food,the best education and science.And this is their story.Since the great age of the Tang Dynasty,China had shrunk dramatically.After 907, it fragmented into 16 dynastiesin a little over 50 years,warlords fighting each other for the Empire.At this point, there was no certaintythat China would ever be reunited.But as it says in Chinas famous novel,The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms,It is a truth universally acknowledgedthat everything long united will fall apartand everything long divided will come back together again.The Song would transform Kaifengfrom a provincial backwater into the greatest city on Earth.And now its rebuilding again.After the struggles of the 20th century,todays Chinese people are fascinatedby the spectacle of what th
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