hmm seems like long peace is rare in history we've functionally been at peace for a long time
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Tang had plenty of this, but their capital was in the semi arid Northwest and even the Northern Song capital of Kaifeng is not reputedly as pleasurable for drunken boating as say Hangzhou.
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Su Dongpo (Su Shi) even got exiled a couple of times even further south. But this boat stuff is often most associated with literati in Suzhou and Hangzhou. So generally Southern Song and later. Their is a fair amount of boating in earlier Chinese poetry from southern dynasties
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