The residents of Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty had new changes in their lives compared to those of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, and where they were expressed

The Tang Dynasty cities were managed by a system of neighborhoods, and in Chang'an, for example, the living area was divided into small square neighborhoods surrounded by walls, with management personnel at the entrances and exits, and a curfew was imposed at night, so that the residents were required to go back to their homes at night, and those who were wandering in the streets could be killed immediately by the patrolling troops. The whole Chang'an only has two cities, East and West, the form is similar to the general Rifang and slightly larger, every day in the middle of the day and the city, probably around eleven o'clock in the afternoon around three or four o'clock to close the market, the city has all kinds of stores selling small commodities, Li Bai's poem: "Wuling young gold city east, silver saddle white horse degree spring wind. Where do you go when you step on all the fallen flowers, laughing into the Hu Ji wine shop." The gold market here refers to the west city. But according to the archaeological excavations in the West City, the size of the stores are very small, probably just a few square meters, facing the street for the door, the planning is consistent, Hu Ji liquor store is probably similar to some of today's small milk tea store on the side of the road, right.

After entering the Song Dynasty, the layout of the planning system in the city does not exist, the separation of residential living areas and economic and trade areas is no longer obvious, and there is no longer a wall separating the various residential areas into a small piece, the freedom of the residents to live a great deal of improvement in the night life is also more colorful. From Zhang Zeduan "Qingming Shanghe Tu" can be seen, the form of economic trade is more flexible, a lot of peddlers walking type mobile stalls, greatly facilitating the life of residents. From the documents, we can know that the Song Dynasty saw the new emergence of wazi, a larger-scale entertainment place that could provide meals, songs and dances, and other entertainment performances, which side by side proved the economic prosperity of the Song Dynasty. The emergence of this kind of paper money helps economic development, but in the Northern Song Dynasty seems to be more popular in the Sichuan area, but did not form a large-scale popularization of the use.

In addition, the Song Dynasty began to have a more advanced distillation technology, so the Song Dynasty wine and we drink today's white wine is similar to the Tang Dynasty is still basically based on rice wine, some similar to what we drink today, thick wine, so Li Bai drank "golden cup of wine" and Su Shi drank wine is a big difference, which is a big difference. This is also a big difference.