"Drums in the mountains in winter and winter nights, and the small market is on fire." Lu You's poems make us feel the colorful charm of the cultural night market in the Song Dynasty. The appearance of the cultural night market gives new content to the urban nightlife in the Song Dynasty, and also brings a strong new wind to the urban culture in the Song Dynasty, that is, the entertainment culture of the citizen class.
As a landmark building of urban fashion, restaurants are naturally pioneers of urban commerce. Dr. Kato Fan, an authoritative scholar of Japanese Chinese economic history, described this in his paper "The Development of Cities in the Song Dynasty": "The restaurants in the cities in the Song Dynasty were all facing the street and were all built with high-rise buildings", and "these situations only began to appear in the Song Dynasty". According to Meng's Tokyo Dream, there were 72 restaurants in Tokyo at that time, of which Maolou was the most prominent. These restaurants are not only elegant in interior decoration, but also tend to be garden-like, which makes people enter the private garden as soon as they step into the restaurant. The style of restaurant gardens is another feature of urban development in Song Dynasty. Even high-ranking dignitaries and members of the royal family like to drink in restaurants in the market. For example, Lu Sugong, the minister, often wears casual clothes and drinks secretly in southerners and restaurants without waiters. When the emperor learned of this, he blamed him: "Why did you go into the restaurant without permission?" He plausibly said, "The restaurant has everything and feels at home."
In the Song Dynasty, this kind of hotel usually put a hat sign on the red gardenia lamp at the door. Such beauty is bound to attract great attention of scholars. Although it is a place where flowers and trees help the poor, it sometimes becomes the source of poetry creation.