The Song make enormous gains in commerce …
Years: 978 - 978
The Song make enormous gains in commerce and rice cultivation in this era.
Chinese scholars initially publish the Tàipíng guǎngjì (Extensive Records of the Taiping Era) in 978.
One of the Four Great Books of Song, the work documents various stories of Chinese myths and subjects of theology.
Divided into five hundred volumes when complete, it consists of over three million written Chinese characters.
