"The color sleeves are earnestly holding the jade bell, but the fight was drunk and red." This "Partridge Heaven" has been nearly a thousand years since its pen was written, and the Qinglou women in the author Yan Jidao and the words have turned into dust. The lively scenes of this poem and song are forever left by words.
A woman serves the literati attentively and properly, with colorful sleeves and transparent jade cups, and the literati will mistakenly think that they have entered the embroidery room of which big lady, but which famous and noblewoman will be so flattering? This year, he was still young, struggling to drink a cup of wine, and the scene of the carnival confused him.
After the Yi people are tired of singing and dancing, their faces are like peach blossoms, delicate and feminine, how can they not make people dream!
Bo Xinglang, a prostitute with a thin life, is humiliated and redeemed
Many literati and inkers in ancient and modern times can pity the delicate guests in the Chu Pavilion of the Qin Lou. For the literati, the wives in the family were confined to every inch of the world, and they could only have children for them, which was very boring. Only by interacting with these talented, bold and chivalrous women can we live up to the flow of talent.
It is a pity that few of the talents of all the prostitutes in ancient and modern times can redeem the prostitutes they love; even if they redeem themselves, they are only putting a woman in the home who can entertain people and give them to friends at any time, let alone be promoted to a concubine.
Yan Jidao, who wrote this word, had a dewy affair with four prostitutes- these prostitutes were his muse, and the prostitute words he wrote were emotional, but in reality, he did not redeem any of them.
Bo Xing's lover, the devil's cave of the filthy people, why did the Qinglou woman not want to escape from this man-eating hell, but desperately wanted to save money to redeem herself?
What will happen to prostitutes who want to be free? Let's take a look at the survival experience of prostitutes on the two roads of self-flight and redemption!
The road to escape – a difficult road comparable to a road to pass
The first level: the control of the government and the turtle and bustard squeezing
From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States to the Yuan Dynasty, official prostitutes and camp prostitutes have always been the main body of sound and color. During this period, the state controlled the origin, household registration and operation of prostitutes. The families of criminals, the daughters of prostitutes and the descendants of prisoners of war are the main sources of the prostitute community.
Until the Song Dynasty, the imperial court began to allow official prostitutes to provide sexual services to the society, and those private urban brothels that were controlled by the state and collected business taxes were encouraged by the government to "buy" good women from the people, and the municipal prostitutes came into being. In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court strictly prohibited the sale of good as prostitution, but there were still many dentists who bought poor women as prostitutes in the name of buying concubines.
From the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, the household registration of official prostitutes and municipal prostitutes was hung under the prefectures, counties, and counties to which they belonged, and the prostitutes were managed by the local governors, and the turtle bustards were responsible for the daily brothel operation; after the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court gradually abolished the system of local officials and prostitutes, and the turtles and bustards became the actual controllers of the prostitutes.
Good people became prostitutes, turtles and bustards became brothel operators, and brothels under the connivance of the imperial court became more and more rampant.
In order to obtain tax revenue, the government would urge the turtle bustard to strictly control the entry and exit of prostitutes. Frequent scolding is just a small matter, and whipping and freezing hunger are common means for turtles and bustards.
According to a prostitute in the Wuhan area of the Republic of China, prostitutes who do not want to receive customers will be stuffed into sacks, and the turtle guild will throw a cat in the sack, and according to the location of the cat's call, the turtle guild will hit the cat with a wooden stick until the cat is beaten to death, and the prostitute's body and mind are severely punished.
Under the oppression of the inhumane turtles and bustards, surrounded by thugs, the idea of fleeing was snuffed out little by little. There are also brave people: during the Republic of China, there were many prostitutes who had fled with their lovers, but most of them were brought back by brothel thugs to beat to death or even starved to death.
The second level: check the whereabouts of the road pass
The ancient city gate in reality is not as good as in the ancient costume martial arts TV series. Since the Zhou Dynasty, the mainland has established a fairly reasonable road management system. The "Zhou Li" records that in the Qiu Li System, there are officials responsible for managing traffic order, and there are also officials who specifically punish people who walk at night, and the division of duties is quite clear.
In the Spring and Autumn Warring States, ordinary people need to use the runes issued by the government to get out of the customs when passing the customs. The prostitute who has escaped is the cash cow of the government, and it is one of the best tools to hold on to the "stability maintenance", and it is absolutely impossible for a prostitute to get a rune issued by the government.
One would wonder if this prostitute had gone out of the city gate in a cart carrying goods, and anyone would have been able to help her?
Yes! If the prostitute did not want to be eaten by the tiger lurking in the forest, she could only take the avenue. But in the Song Dynasty, the road management system became more and more stringent.
In the Song Dynasty, smugglers were sentenced to one year in prison, and once this untouchable prostitute was caught, she would be punished with darkness. Road managers in the Song Dynasty were like nodes in a cobweb, all over the earth and along rivers, and they would ask for the proof of all suspects, to verify the states, counties, villages, customs, and even bridges and ferries through which pedestrians passed—these places were all scattered with their people.
How far can a runaway prostitute who has no property, is alone, and does not understand the operation of the world go, and is faced with the tiger eyes of the stewards?
The third level: household registration inspection, it is difficult to leak
If there had been a fleeing prostitute, who had the ability to survive like an explorer, who did not take a boat, did not walk flat, but only wanted to climb over the mountains, walk through the jungle mist, and her feet flowed in the swamp, she cut through the thorns, and finally came to a relatively hidden village that did not know her - she would still be found.
Ancient Chinese society was an agrarian society with a strict household registration system unimaginable in other countries. In ancient times, this household registration system locked farmers firmly around their hometowns, and they could not leave the countryside without submitting applications. The rulers let the peasants and peasant women work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and the relocation of the land is their soul, and the uprooting is the beginning of bad luck.
In the Qin Dynasty, the government had to check the hukou every year, and those who concealed the population and officials who neglected their duties were severely punished. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the grass-roots level established a local management system at the levels of home, bao, li, township, fang, and village, and the local government had land, and people with reputation would manage local schools, taxes, irrigation, and so on. In terms of household registration, we have adopted means such as hand facts, bookkeeping, appearance reading, and registration to clarify the population situation.
In a small village where everyone is strictly conformist, suddenly a woman with unusual behavior suddenly comes in, whose whereabouts are uncertain, and the peasants are very likely to inform the baochang of this. If a fleeing prostitute is taken in, the jealous person also has the right to report it one by one, so that the "hukou leak" person can be imprisoned.
The road to redemption – money, relationships, and lovers are just as indispensable
Compared with the road of private escape from prison and violent death, the road to redemption requires more money costs.
A "prostitution license from a prostitute" in the Imperial Grain and National Tax Museum in the Collection of the Ming Dynasty Yongle Years bears witness to the bitter blood and tears of the prostitute's daughter.
The income from prostitution of prostitutes has always been stolen by the turtles and bustards, and they can get the money only on the basis of a little tip when the prostitute is happy. If the kung fu of flattery is pure, the silver money is enough, and it is still far from redemption.
The redeemed woman must have a husband who saves the prostitute from the "eternal water hole" in order to obtain a license - the removal of the untouchables in the government office requires many points, and the brothel bustard mother is not free to let people go, the husband must not only have a "doorway", eloquence, but also loyalty: if the prostitute's money is embezzled, the prostitutes have no way to ask for help. Li Antai, who signed his name on the license, can be called a good person with a heavy heart and a brain.
Lucky prostitutes can only redeem themselves with the help of many parties.
Although the redemption is bitter, for the prostitute daughter, it is also a good way to get rid of "born as a wife of ten thousand people, and die as a husbandless ghost".
In fact, in addition to elopement and redemption, there is still a way for prostitutes - mother bustards, which is the most "generous" and most terrible way - they kill the fleeing prostitutes and seize the money of the ransome prostitutes. These bitter women have been prostitutes, tortured like falling into ice caves, and have been tortured and toyed with by prostitutes, but they will not ask for escape from fate, nor do they dare to act arbitrarily against their clients, they are like people killed by tigers, turning into ghosts, devouring one after another living beings who still have hope for life.
After the founding of New China, women were liberated, but the spirit of the ghost still wandered on the land of Shenzhou, and the mention of "restoring the system of prostitutes" revived.