China's ancient society was a male society, male superiority and female inferiority, and the social status of women was very low. In ancient times, the role of women was to pass on the generations, and women had no other use in the home except for inheritance. If it is a commoner, then this woman will undoubtedly be miserable after marriage, and if it is the children of a large family, then this woman's life will be slightly better.
As we all know, under the influence of the idea of "male superiority over female inferiority" in ancient China, the fate of women was often tragic and desolate. They are like a tool to be used to "pass on the generations", or a kind of plaything for people's entertainment, and the life of a woman who has become a prostitute is even more sad. "Domestic prostitutes", also known as "domestic prostitutes", are the singers and prostitutes raised in the homes of the ancient rich and powerful, and her status is between that of concubines and concubines. However, in ancient society, a considerable number of people embarked on the path of family tricks, such as Wei Zifu, empress dowager of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Chen Yuanyuan of the late Ming Dynasty, who were all born as family tricks.
In the Tang Dynasty, people snatched each other's prostitutes, wantonly abused domestic prostitutes, and even destroyed domestic prostitutes to death for the sake of domestic prostitutes, which later even became a very serious social problem. There is still a difference between a domestic prostitute and a woman in the Qinglou, because the prostitute is actually the owner's private product, and others are not allowed to touch it without the permission of her master. This is also an important reason why large families will raise prostitutes, because the prostitutes in a certain sense show the status of the master, the prostitute is a symbol of status, showing the status of the master, the more prostitutes indicate that the owner is richer.
Most of the prostitutes came from buying, selling, giving, transferring, etc., and some were completely robbed. During the time of Wu Zetian, Zuo Shilang Zhongqiao Zhizhi had a prostitute, who was the best in color and art, and was famous for the government and the public, "knowing the favor of the favor, not marrying for it". Wu Yansi, the king of Liang, had been coveting for a long time and forcibly took it. Although the practice of storing prostitutes in the Song Dynasty was more common, the scale and number of prostitutes were much smaller than in previous dynasties. In addition, domestic prostitutes are also used to make transactions, such as finding someone to do things, and in order to improve their status, they will give away domestic prostitutes. In addition to pleasing the director, domestic prostitutes will also be bullied, but they have no name, and they are not as good as a concubine, so the domestic prostitutes have no freedom.
All in all, the domestic prostitute is a privately raised female musician, a singer and dancer, one of the important manifestations of the owner's identity, status and wealth, and a means of entertainment for the master. As a supplement to the official prostitute system, it withered away with the demise of the official prostitute system in China.