Du Mu: "Ten years of Yangzhou dream, won the Qinglou Bo xing name." Qinglou, originally referred to a luxurious and exquisite building decorated with green lacquer, is included in the "Jin Shu Qiyun Biography": "Open the Zhumen Gate in the south, look at the Qinglou in the north." The Qinglou that appears in the Tang poems and Song poems generally refers to the brothel of the Songguan. Due to the proficiency of qinglou women's poetry and song, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, the literati of the Tang and Song dynasties were very happy to appreciate various talents in the Qinglou Yashe. And they often take the opportunity to drink and write poetry.
The origin of the word Qinglou can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties, the so-called "South Open Zhumen, North Lookout Qinglou", Zhumen means the vermilion gate, and the Qinglou is also a building with green tiles. Zhumen and Qinglou mean the place where the emperor will live with the same nobles. From the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties, a woman born in the Qinglou, Tianzhi Guiguan, has a superior status and is a goddess that ordinary people can not hope to get.
Women born in the Zhumen Qinglou during the Three Kingdoms Wei and Jin Dynasties have always been bridesmaids, whether it is temperament, appearance, or learning, their family wealth is one of the best among women.
The Sui and Tang dynasties were the heyday of China's feudal dynasty civilization society, and it was also the most open dynasty in social atmosphere, and the popularity of poetry culture reached its peak under the subtle influence of this environment.
From the royal ministers to the people of Li Min, people who can't write poetry when they go out have become "different", and under the influence of this atmosphere, there is a special profession that has also begun to become elegant, that is, the Qinglou woman
But whenever the Qinglou women are mentioned, everyone will always think of this courtyard and the wind and moon place of what building, and they will think of those flowery and flowery solicitation women.
In fact, compared with other dynasties, it is difficult for the Women of the Qinglou in the Tang Dynasty to treat them in the same class. Because poetry was popular in the Tang Dynasty, in order to solicit customers, the requirements for women in the Qinglou would be more stringent, not only to have outstanding posture, but also to have a certain cultural literacy, only in this way could they become the object of admiration of those literati and scholars.
During the Tang Dynasty, the Qinglou often held literary and wine singing and dancing parties, and in addition to idle officials, they often invited literati and scholars to have fun. In the field, in addition to the silk bamboo orchestra, light singing and dancing, and the wine girl, there must also be a talented, well-informed, and able to speak well-spoken singer to preside over the banquet program.
After the Anshi Rebellion in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the influence of the Gate Valve Clan was much less than before, especially during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the voice of the Door Valve Nobles gradually tilted to the commoners, and at this time, the Qinglou women lost the dazzling Aura of the Door Valve Nobles and began to fall from the altar. The most intuitive embodiment is that the places where some women who made a living selling art in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and the early Northern Song Dynasty also began to be called Qinglou.
After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty and the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, the culture of the Qinglou and the women of the Qinglou who were born noble gradually changed. Many poor women began to enter the Qinglou, gradually breaking the rules of selling art and not selling themselves.
In the early Qing Dynasty, the Qinglou completed the transformation of history and became a place that people "despised" but "liked".
The Qinglou in the Sui and Tang dynasties was closely related to the literati and the imperial examination. And the Qinglou women, but also the "ideal female companion" of men, under the male power, women's talents and ambitions can only be displayed from a different perspective, and the Qinglou is one of them. Nowadays, the saying that "prostitutes are not equal to tricks" and "qinglou is not a brothel" is prevalent on the Internet, and the question is, is this statement correct? #娱鉴计划 #
