Saving lives and helping the injured is the duty of doctors, whether in ancient times or today, doctors are an indispensable profession. In ancient times, doctors were generally men, and there were very few female doctors, but it was not completely absent, and there were doctors and women in the Ming Dynasty at that time.
North Korea was a neighbor of the Ming Dynasty and also had this profession, but their profession was not the same as that of the Ming Dynasty. The situation in Korea and ancient China is very similar, women's status is very low, but they have a profession of "medical prostitute" and the work is difficult to talk about.
First, the origin of medical prostitutes
In the earliest days, There was no system of "medical prostitutes" in Korea, and the cause had a certain relationship with ancient China. At that time, Korea was a vassal state of ancient China, and during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, they went to the Ming Dynasty to learn about Chinese culture and technology, including the ming system.
In this way, women's three from four virtues, male superiority and female inferiority, these things have been brought back by North Korea. At that time, the entire country of North Korea had a problem with food and clothing, and most people were still mainly farming, and had no other economic resources, but farming was only enough for a family.
When these cultures were brought back, many professions were conceived and born, the most popular of which was that these people sent their children to the palace to become maids and guards to solve the family's predicament, and some peasant women who were particularly intelligent were selected to study medicine.
At that time, North Korea valued chastity, and these women had to cover their faces with veils when they went out, and could not let any man see them. If the misfortune is seen, then it can only be married to this person. In this case, women's medical treatment became a problem, and in this way, doctors began to prevail.
North Korea began to promote female medical studies throughout the country, and the selection of candidates are smart underage girls under the age of 13. Families with a little bit of a family can't learn this, they feel that serving people is despicable, in order to solve the problem, ordinary people's women have entered the line of sight.
At that time, most of them were male doctors, and it was very inconvenient to see a doctor, and these nobles were even less likely to let male doctors see a doctor, and female doctors were more convenient. When they reached adulthood, they were sent to the palace, and then they were treated by the nobles.
The hearts of the doctor's parents, whether it is to treat the nobles or to the ordinary people, there is no difference, when these doctors and women enter the palace, everything changes, and the doctors slowly become "medical prostitutes", a profession that makes everyone spit on.
Second, the dark society
At that time, even if you knew how to heal, if you were a woman, your status would not be very high. These women not only had to treat the nobles in the palace, but their main job was to please the powerful.
During that period, the doctors were divided into three categories. One category is to treat those women specifically, and there is no other work arrangement, and this type of person is still relatively lucky. The second category is to go to the court to see people, if you are too beautiful, you may be looked up to, and finally pampered.
The fate of the first two types of doctors and women is not the most tragic, the most tragic is the third type of doctors. They were the lowest of these people, of the same nature as dancers. If a minister falls in love with such a doctor, he will eventually be given it.
In the beginning, the status of the doctor's daughter was not like this, and it had a certain relationship with an emperor named Yan shanjun at that time. After he came to power, the system changed. Yan Shanjun was a faint emperor who indulged in lust after ascending the throne.
The imperial palace could no longer satisfy Yan Shanjun, and he even changed Buddhism to a place of fun. And he will also go to the folk play, if there is a beautiful woman, he will rob into the palace. Later, ordinary women no longer let him get satisfied, so he set his sights on those female doctors.
At first, he only let the female doctor please himself, but later he thought that the doctor should still be able to dance, so he let them learn to dance, and even performed for everyone at the banquet. In this regard, the doctor is no longer a simple healer, but also plays the role of a dancer.
Some nobles were drunk and regarded these doctors as low-status maids, and naturally they became the playthings of these men. In this way, the doctor became a medical prostitute. The ministers did not react to this phenomenon.
It seemed to these ministers that even if they knew how to heal, it was useless, and they looked down on these women from the bottom of their hearts. At that time, watching the status of the doctor's daughter improve, its essence was the same, and there was no change.
The most unacceptable thing is that these doctors and women are not counted as dancers, who participated in this banquet, after the banquet, they will have the next 7 days to go to the various bureaucrats to serve them, and these doctors and women are even more despised by all classes.
In the face of such an ending, the doctors and women did not dare to resist at all, and the Son of Heaven had a destiny and did not dare not obey. Thus reduced to the plaything of the emperor and the magnate. Medical skills have unconsciously become a side job, and seeing a doctor to save people is a joke.
Third, the medical prostitute who is powerless to resist
Later, even if Yanshan Jun was gone, the successive kings did not formally abolish this system, and the doctors and women continued their tragic fate, but the subsequent emperors no longer let them accompany the ministers to find pleasure, but their status did not change much.
On the surface, they no longer had to accompany the princes and ministers, but this atmosphere could not be changed by a single edict, and these ministers used their power to intimidate these doctors and women, so that they had to obey. Unable to resist, they could only silently endure their fate.
The doctor girl was originally educated, and it took a lot of money to learn this technique, and in this way, under the oppression of feudal society, it became a decoration, no different from the ordinary feudal woman. This system lasted for more than 400 years before the arrival of the Japanese army was to completely abolish the system.
At that time, the Japanese army began to invade other countries in a big way, and the Korean Peninsula was also within their attack range. At that time, Japan did not look at this system of North Korea, and it was only under the pressure of guns that North Korea abolished this system. The doctor was obviously a victim of that era, and had no right to control her own destiny.
summary
The fact that the doctor's daughter became a medical prostitute cannot all be blamed on the emperor at that time, after all, the thinking of everyone at that time was like this, which could not be changed at once, and the doctor's daughter finally became a medical prostitute, which had a very big relationship with the background of the times at that time, which was the sadness of that era.
In the beginning, Korea was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was like this, let alone North Korea itself? Medical prostitutes are the products of the times, and their fate is sad, and they also lament the injustice of that era, and the harm to women in that period is very great.
But that era has passed, everything has gone away, north Korea itself has undergone earth-shaking changes, and everything has become better. Let us cherish the hard-won life now and live in the present.