A Study Of Urban Tourism In Dongjing Of Beisong Dynasty

Tourism industry is also called the rising industry and the smokeless industry. It has been one of the tertiary industries with the fastest developing speed since World War II. Among the fast-developing travel type, the urban tourism has already become the important form of modern tourism. And the market potential is enormous. So, the study of the development of the ancient urban tourism will offer the guide of theory and practice for modern urban tourism. It is the need of the modern tourism development.In the Northern Song Dynasty (960 A.D. to 1127 A.D.) the whole world unified and the economic recovered. "The carriage is full of rice and valley, every family is rich in food and clothing". The travel begin to go out of the Wu Dynasty's low ebb. However, the travel in Northern Song Dynasty, is not so wide as in the Tang Dynasty. To the north of today's Haihe River in Tianjin, Ba County in Hebei and Yan Men Pass in Shanxi, it was dominated by Liao ,Xixia and Tubo kingdoms from the northwest to today's Baiyu mountain in Shanxi ,the east part of Gansu and the northeast of Qinghai. The travel territory of Northern Song Dynasty is limited.The spirit of travel in Song Dynasty was not so bold and unconstrained as the Tang Dynasty too. The losing of the old place of the Han and Tang dynasties and the failing in the fighting under the city had irritated the people of Song Dynasty 's self-respect seriously. The mental wound is deep. In Song Dynasty the Neo-Confucianism was high praised. It is said that" The Neo-Confucianism of ChengYi, ChengHao and ZhuXi" " Expel people's desire and master nature's rule". The thought tends towards guarding. So, the atmosphere of travel in Song Dynasty was light, and the step of travel was carefulness. They are content with common, steady forms, such as visiting mountains and rivers, visiting and pondering on the past historical site, browse through the city. It is lack of the risky tourism. The restriction of region condition and the relatively conservative thought have objectively promoted the development of Northern Song Dynasty's urban tourism. Among them, the urban tourism of Northern Song Dynasty in the Dongjing, which was thepolitics and economic center was regarded as the representative model again.In China's ancient urban history, the Dongjing of Northern Song Dynasty (Kaifeng of Henan of today) occupies a very important position, Up to the Northern Song Dynasty, It has gone through the Wei of Zhanguo period, the later Liang, the later Jin, the later Han and the later Zhou of Wudai period and the Northern Song Dynasty and has been chosen as the capital for six dynasties already. In addition, king Liang Xiao of the Western Han Dynasty has regarded Kaifeng as his kingdom Liang's capital for a time too. Second, in Northern Song Dynasty, the capital was built meticulously for several times, travel recreational facilities were more complete.Though study on the urban tourism of the Dongjing of Northern Song Dynasty involves so many materials of tourist resources such as hotels, teahouse, folk custom, garden, etc. For example, ZhuTongfang's "Hotels of the Dongjing of Northern Song Dynasty" published in "Commercial culture",YangRui's "The garden of Kaifeng in Northern Song Dynasty "published in '"Hie yesterday and today of central region" ,WuTao's " The diet customs of the east city of Northern Song Dynasty" published in "The monthly magazine of Historiography "etc. However, in all the materials I found out, although WangLiangShu's "China travel history " and ZhangBigong's 11 China travel history " have talked about the travel in Northern Song Dynasty, all are concerned about the tourists' thoughts of their country and people at that time. The overall and systematic materials researching of the urban tourism in Northern Song Dynasty have not been found yet.This text starts with the respects of the base of the tourism in Dongjing , and the reason for its development etc. It clarified the state of Dongjing urban tourism in Northern Song Dynasty, summed up some characteristics of N...