Flower stone

…A special burden was imposed on the Jiangnan region during the reign of Huizong, the eighth emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty in China. Prime Minister Cai Jing, who pandered to Huizong, who liked flowers (rare trees) and stones (unusual stones), ordered the eunuch Zhu Jie and others to search for flowers and stones in the Jiangnan region and to send them north through the canal in a fleet to the national capital. This was called the Flower and Stone Courier. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…中国，北宋第8代皇帝，徽宗（きそう）時代，江南地方に課せられた特殊な負担。花(珍木)･石(奇石)を好んだ徽宗に迎合した宰相蔡京（さいけい）が，宦官朱勔（しゆべん）らに命じて江南地方に花石をもとめ，船団を組んで運河を北上して国都へ送らせた。これを花石綱と呼ぶ。…

※「花石」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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