Ancient Chinese marketplace culture emerged in what era

Ancient China's marketplace culture emerged during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

The Song and Yuan dynasties were characterized by a prosperous commodity economy, which led to the emergence of a civic class and a civic culture. Painter Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Shanghe Tu" shows us the scene of prosperous city culture in Song Dynasty. The fast pace of urban life and emotional rhythm determined the tendency of the citizen culture to be passionate and unrestrained, and the citizen culture directly contributed to the prosperity of Song poetry, lyrics, prose and Yuanqu.

Because of the highly developed commodity economy in the Song and Yuan dynasties, the life of the people was very rich, which produced a lot of folk literature, such as the storybook. Because of the frequent inter-ethnic wars and exchanges between peoples in this period, people could not fully express their feelings about the fate of the country and express their emotions in the short literary form of Tang poems, and thus produced Song lyrics, which were more flexible in form and more capable of expressing their emotions. For example, during the Song and Yuan dynasties, navigation was highly developed and the compass was widely used. Ethnic integration was further developed, which made the cultures retain their own cultural traditions, but also have their own characteristics. It can be said that the further development of economic prosperity is the material basis of cultural prosperity, while the further integration of ethnic interaction is a facilitating factor, but also a way.