两宋时,宫廷盛行簪花宴,宋太宗在宴会上,曾赐千叶牡丹给寇准簪戴;宋真宗也常常赐花给大臣簪戴,以示恩宠宋人有一种活法儿,活出了一种“文艺复兴”似的嘉年华。日本学者内藤湖南、宫崎市定所代表的京都学派有这样的观点,唐朝是中世纪结束,宋代则是近代性的开端;法国学者谢和耐认为,宋代是“中国的文艺复兴”;英国学者李约瑟认为,宋代是中国“自然 Two Song Dynasty, the court popular hairpin feast, Song Taizong at the banquet, had given Chiba Peony to Kou Zhunzhan Dai; Song Zhenzong often give flowers to the minister hairpin, to show grace pet Song has a living law, Live a ”Renaissance“ -like carnival. The Japanese scholar Naito Fujimoto and the Kyoto school, represented by Miyazaki City, have the view that the Tang dynasty ended in the Middle Ages and the Song dynasty was the beginning of modernity. The French scholar Xie Hailin believed that the Song Dynasty was ”the Renaissance of China" According to Joseph Needham, the Song Dynasty was China