Běisòng mièwáng yǐhòu, hěnduō rén líkāi Biànzhōu, qù le nánfāng.
After the fall of the Northern Song, many people left Bianzhou for the south.
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culture
Lin Sheng's Southern Song quatrain ends 直把杭州作汴州, 'they take Hangzhou for Bianzhou': having lost the north to the Jin, the court feasted in its new capital as if the old one had never fallen.
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The city went by several names. 汴京 and 汴梁 are the usual literary ones, and the Song called its capital 东京, the Eastern Capital. All the 汴 names come from the Bian River (汴河), the canal that brought grain to the city.
