The Study On The Palace Personages' Leisure Activities In Northern Song Dynasty

In the Northern Song Dynasty, along with the social economy development, the palace personages' leisure activities were widely spread, which became the people's main life contents in their spare time. This not only promoted the palace personages to cultivate their mind and cheerful mood, but also brought a certain role and influence.Entertainment and leisure activities were one of the main leisure activities in the palace, very rich in contents. There were carnival ones which could make the body strong and healthy, such as ball sports,archery and hunting. Also there were political compatibility activities like enjoying flowers, fishing and Lantern Festival Lights. Also there were rich watch-type activities, such as enjoying dance and music, Baixi performance, etc. There were also some of the daily gaming and playful activities, such as Gambling, Shefu, etc. It is the varieties of entertainment and leisure activities that provides the source of happiness for the palace personages in the Northern Song Dynasty. Meanwhile some political entertainment played a positive role in adjusting the relationship between the emperor and the officials and common people.Literature and art leisure activities were also popular with the palace personages.In the palace, there were reading ,literary creation leiture activities and art leisure avtivities such as music, calligraphy, painting and calligraphy antique collection activities. These activities aimed at improving the literary and artistic attainments in palace. And they left many literary artistic works and therefore promoted the development of the Northern Song Dynasty.In Northern Song Dynasty, there were also religious and health leiture activities. Religion activites included Fuojiao and Daojiao.Health leiture activities included Daoyin and tea leisure activities.Such activities made the people's personnality more perfect and the body more healthy. The Northern Song Dynasty palace leisure activities showed a certain Neilianxing,and its taste is more elegant. In addition,large-scale comprehensive performances appeared in the palace, which greatly riched the palace personages' leisure activities contents.The Northern Song Dynasty palace leiture activities not only adjusted the palace people's mind and body, but also played an important part in perfecting themselves. At the same time, they had a certain influence and fanction on the culture, politics and social atmosphere then. Moreover, they also influenced the neighbouring countries such as Jin, Gaoli, etc. The activities not only leave lots of palace literary and artistic woks but lead the folk leisure activities and also rich the contents of the neighbouring countries palace leisure activities.