两宋 'the two Songs' refers to 北宋 (Northern Song, capital 开封) and 南宋 (Southern Song, capital 临安, today's Hangzhou) as a single 319-year dynasty. The split happened in 1127 when the Jurchen captured the north.
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Despite political weakness, the Song produced gunpowder weapons, movable-type printing, Neo-Confucianism (朱熹), the Qingming Festival scroll, and arguably China's commercial and urban peak before modernity.
