I have a hard time finding sources on how was life for city-dwelling

will my thread get more replies if I do some /pol/ posting or say that korean jesus wants this thread?

>>1851806
I'm curious too

just open up articles and start reading.

"In the winter of 1556, an earthquake catastrophe occurred in the Shaanxi and Shanxi Provinces. In our Hua County, various misfortunes took place. Mountains and rivers changed places and roads were destroyed. In some places, the ground suddenly rose up and formed new hills, or it sank abruptly and became new valleys. In other areas, a stream burst out in an instant, or the ground broke and new gullies appeared. Huts, official houses, temples and city walls collapsed all of a sudden."

"The cost of damage done by the earthquake is almost impossible to measure in modern terms. The death toll, however, has been traditionally given as 820,000 to 830,000.[1] The accompanying property damage would have been incalculable – an entire region of inner China had been destroyed and an estimated 60% of the region’s population died."

"Millions of people at the time lived in artificial loess caves on high cliffs in the area of the Loess Plateau. Loess is the name for the silty soil that windstorms have deposited on the plateau over the ages. The soft loess clay had formed over thousands of years due to wind blowing silt into the area from the Gobi Desert. Loess is a highly erosion-prone soil that is susceptible to the forces of wind and water. The Loess Plateau and its dusty soil cover almost all of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces and parts of others. Much of the population lived in dwellings called yaodongs in these cliffs. This was the major contributing factor to the huge death toll. The earthquake caused landslides, which destroyed the caves."

it probably sucked ass most of the time for most people

>>1853654
that's not romantic at all

There are literally 1000s of sources about city life in the Tang and Song dynasties. You're literally retarded if you can't pick up a book and look trough the bibiography in the back

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>>1853746
True, especially Song dynasty.
Pic related, a painting called 清明上河圖 which shows the daily life in Bianjing/Kaifeng, the capital, of Song dynasty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along_the_River_During_the_Qingming_Festival
full image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Alongtheriver_QingMing.jpg

I also recommand you to read 東京夢華錄(The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor) which shows how was life in Bianjing as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongjing_Meng_Hua_Lu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_the_Song_dynasty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Song_dynasty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Song_dynasty

>>1853978
Thanks!

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>>1851806
For much of 600s-1000s AD in East Asia, urban design boiled down to one question:

"How can we make our cities more like Chang'an?"
>*Grid planning and courtyards intensify.*