Densely populated(人煙稠密)
The Song Dynasty in China is divided into
two periods by historians.
The first stage was the Northern Song
Dynasty (960-1127 AD).
The second stage was the Southern Song
Dynasty (AD-1127 to AD 1279).
In 1129 AD, the Southern Song Dynasty moved
the capital to the city (Lin'an), which is the current Hangzhou City of
Zhejiang Province.
After the fall of the Southern Song
Dynasty, a scholar named (Wu Zimu) wrote a book.
This book records many customs in Lin'an
City before the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, and also depicts the urban
landscape at that time and the daily life of people of various identities
living in the city.
There is a passage in this book as follows.
Hangzhou is a densely populated city. There
are hundreds of thousands of households in and around the city, with a
population of more than one million.
According to statistics, these residents
eat up to 360,000 kilograms of rice every day.
Therefore, on the river connecting the
city, there are many boats with rice from the surrounding area from morning to
night.
When these ships arrive at the port of
Hangzhou, there will be special people responsible for handling and
transporting them to various rice shops.
Everything works very well. If you are the
owner of a rice shop, you can easily get rice from various origins just by
sitting in the shop.
Hangzhou is a densely populated city, and
there are countless butcher shops.
Every butcher shop was swept clean, and the
knives were sharpened.
On a normal morning, if you pass by these
butcher shops, you will see pigs that have been slaughtered and cut in half
hanging in the shops. Each butcher shop can sell at least five pigs a day.
If there are large festivals such as the
Chinese New Year, the business of these butchers will be several times better
than usual.
On the mornings of these big festivals,
you'll see at least five professional butchers in every butcher shop.
These butchers can prepare the meat for the
customers according to their requirements.
If you come to buy near noon, you will find
that all the meat in the butcher shop is sold out.
This idiom means densely populated.
Dear friends, what are your feelings or
thoughts after listening to this story?
How many people live in your city? Do you
prefer to visit traditional markets or modern supermarkets?
I hope this story will give you something
new to gain.
人煙稠密(Densely populated)
中國的宋王朝被歷史學家分為兩個時期。
第一個階段是北宋王朝(西元960-西元1127年)。
第二個階段是南宋王朝(西元-1127年到西元1279年)。
西元1129年，南宋王朝把首都遷到(臨安)這座城市，這座城市就是目前的浙江省的杭州市。
南宋王朝滅亡之後，有一個名字叫做(吳自牧)的學者寫了一本書。
這本書中紀錄了南宋王朝滅亡前，臨安城中的許多風俗、也描繪了當時的城市景觀與居住在這座城市中的各種身分地位的人們的日常生活。
這本書中有一段紀錄如下。
杭州這座城市人煙稠密，整座城市與周邊有好幾十萬戶，超過一百萬的人口。
根據統計，每天這些居民們所吃的稻米，最多可高達36萬公斤。
因此連接這座城市的河流上，從早到晚都有著許多從周圍地區來的裝著稻米的船。
當這些船到達杭州的港口後，就會有專門的人負責搬運與運送到各個米舖。
一切運行的很有規則，如果你是一個米舖的老闆，你只要坐在店裡就可輕鬆的取得各種不同產地的稻米。
杭州這座城市人煙稠密，肉鋪數不清有多少家。
每間肉舖都打掃得很乾淨，刀子也都磨得發亮。
平常日的早上，你如果經過這些肉舖，你會看見肉舖中懸掛著已經屠宰切成對半的豬吊在店中，每家肉舖每天至少都可以賣掉五頭豬。
如果遇見過年等大型的節日，這些肉舖的生意會比平日更好數倍。
在這些大型節日的早晨，你會看見每個肉舖中至少都有五位以上專業屠夫。
這些屠夫能依照客戶的要求，為客戶們準備他們所要的肉品。
如果你接近中午才來購買，你會發現肉舖中的所有肉品都已經全部售罄。
這句成語的意思是人煙稠密。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的感受或有怎樣的想法呢。
你所住的城市中，住了多少人口呢?你喜歡逛傳統市集還是現代化的超市呢?
我希望這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
出處宋-吳自牧-夢梁錄-卷16-米舖肉舖