What hobbies did the ancients have?

People's entertainment is very different from today's. The current situation in Otawa is related to electricity, such as video games, computer games and mobile games. Even outdoor activities and playground facilities are inseparable from electricity. The ancients were mostly related to sports. For example, throwing pots, shooting, cuju, polo, jogging, dragon boat racing, swinging, flying kites, fighting crickets, watching social dramas, playing Go and so on.

Let's explain in detail the characteristics of ancient entertainment activities.

First of all, due to the limitation of productivity, ordinary people have long working hours and relatively short and simple entertainment time. For example, limited by traffic conditions, poets such as Li Bai can't pay attention to poetry and distance as they please. Enter a city, catch a party, watch a variety show, eat something delicious, and that's it. The economic conditions in the Song Dynasty were good, and the hotels, teahouses and Goulanwa Temple depicted in the Riverside Map at Qingming Festival were very lively.

Second, there were curfews for most of the time in ancient times, so there were naturally fewer entertainment activities at night. Only when the restrictions of the Lantern Festival are released, people can watch lanterns, enjoy solve riddles on the lanterns and enjoy food, and young people can fall in love, will there be so many poems left in the records of the Lantern Festival, such as Xin Qiji's Jade Case Yuan Xi. This is also the reason why the ancient Lantern Festival is called the biggest festival.

Third, there are many entertainment projects between nobles and literati. Because they have leisure and money, they go hiking, recite poems or enjoy tea and flowers. Books often record that scholars admire chrysanthemums in autumn and notice in winter. Even if you drink, you pay attention to culture. For example, drinking in A Dream of Red Mansions mentioned the order of drinking many times. And many celebrities have changed their lives because of entertainment activities. Gao Qiu was appreciated by the emperor because he could play football, and Wang Bo, the fourth outstanding figure in the early Tang Dynasty, was expelled from the palace for writing cockfighting essays. And so on.

Fourth, most entertainment activities are related to festivals. For example, Qingming outing, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongyang mountain climbing. Therefore, there was a sense of ceremony in ancient times and festivals were very distinctive. Although we modern people don't worry about eating and drinking, and there are many entertainment items, we are not as good as the ancients in this respect.

In short, the ancients had entertainment at that time, and these activities provided rich nutrition for the accumulation of traditional culture.