From The Perspective of Traditional Naturalism,the Floral Records of The Two Song Dynasty and the Investiga-tion of Scholar Groups
Traditional natural history is the basis of knowledge about nature and society in ancient China.Its knowledge picture includes the observer,the object of observation,the scope of observation and the way of expression,reflects the social and cultural spiritual changes.In the Song Dynasty,the artificial cultivation and planting of flowers entered the flourishing period,the varieties became more and more strange,and the distribution became more and more extensive.It can be said that the changes in the two Song Dynasties di-vided the history of Chinese flower culture into the Tang to the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasty.More than 40 species of flower spectrum in this social background was born.The spectrum of flowers and plants in Northern Song Dynasty was mainly composed of peony and peony,while those in Southern Song Dynasty were mainly composed of chrysanthemum,plum and orchid.From the perspective of traditional natural history,this paper discusses the poor spirit of people's natural knowledge and reveals that scholars in the Song Dynasty recognized,observed and recognized flowers under different circumstances,then,in the process of turning inward gradually,scholars in the Song Dynasty wrote a"Natural history"of flowers,which was different from the western natural history.
Song DynastyFlowersGenealogyTraditional Natural HistoryScholar Groups
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