When there is a bumper harvest in Huzhou, Suzhou, everyone in the world will have food. Su Hu is very rich.
"Old Capital" refers to Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, which is now Kaifeng, Henan.
The proverb "Suzhou Lake is ripe, and the world is full" has been circulated since the Southern Song Dynasty. The source can be found in Gauss's books such as "Storing manuscripts in shame hall, rather persuading farmers". Taihu Lake Basin, with flat terrain, fertile land and numerous small rivers, is called "Water Town Zeguo".
During the period from Song Gaozong to Song Xiaozong (1127-1189), water conservancy in Taihu Lake area was built, and the estuary was opened to the north of Kunshan and Changshu. In filial piety, a gate was set up at the exit of Taihu Lake to adjust the water volume.
The lake is low-lying, and the embankment is high, which can block the wind and waves. Due to the dredging of water conservancy, serious floods were eliminated, and low fields and high fields were irrigated. In addition, advanced agricultural production technology, intensive cultivation by farmers, "plowing without waste (city), cutting without ridges" and threshing with the latest farm tools "flail" made Su Hu a high agricultural production area in the Southern Song Dynasty, with crops harvested twice a year and five or six stones per mu in the field, so it was known as "Suzhou and Lake are ripe and the world is full".
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"Suzhou and Shanghai are ripe, and the world is full" is a folk proverb in the Southern Song Dynasty. When there is a bumper harvest in Huzhou, Suzhou, everyone in the world will have food. Su Hu is very rich.
Source:
Chronicle of Song Poetry OO: "Ballads and proverbs are mixed ... Su Hu is familiar and the world is full. " "
Ming Langying's Seven Manuscripts 22: "As the saying goes,' Heaven goes up, Suzhou and Hangzhou go down'." He also said,' Su Hu is enough, and the world is enough.' The solution is that the lake can't catch up with Hangzhou, and that's it. "
Rong "University Extension Supplement" 24: "Han Yu said that it is unique, and Jiangnan is in nineteen places. From today's point of view, southeast Zhejiang occupies the 19th place in the south of the Yangtze River. Jiangsu, Song, Chang, Jia and Hu counties, living in 19 provinces of Zhejiang. ..... There is a saying:' Su Song is familiar, and the world is full. "'
Liang Qing and Zhang Ju's "Miscellaneous Occupation of Farmhouses" II: "When the Fang court was in its old capital, it really admired the wealth of the southeast, and Wuzhong was the root of the southeast. As the saying goes:' Su Changshu, the world is full. "
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Suzhou Lake is ripe and the world is full.