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In the past few days, Li Yifeng has dedicated a big melon to the vast number of netizens. Many people are surprised to question: a handsome young man like Li Yifeng should not lack a girlfriend, why should he go to prostitution? In this article, try to review the "history of prostitution" and see how our ancestors handled the matter of prostitution.
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Some scholars believe that Chinese prostitutes first appeared in the Shang Dynasty, but there is a lack of written records. The general consensus is that Guan Zhong, the prime minister of the State of Qi in the early Spring and Autumn Period, established the first state-level "red light district" in 645 BC.
It is recorded in the "Jianhu Collection" that
Guan Zi zhi Qi, placed seven hundred women, and requisitioned her night funds to replenish the country. This is the beginning of pollen money.
Why guan zhong should open a national-level red light district, the reason is actually very simple, that is, to increase taxes for the country and alleviate social contradictions.
In addition, there are special reasons for the era at that time. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the world was in chaos. The princes are desperately trying to absorb talents. And those who have some skills but are not nobles are usually called wanderers.
Tourists usually have no fixed place to live, no wife to follow, and life has needs, so in order to attract these talents to stay, a large national entertainment place, it is necessary to exist.
In addition to recruiting talents, it was also to satisfy the selfish desires of the nobles. As we all know, Qi Huangong Xiaobai is not a lustful person, and when he first took office, he said that widows have three diseases: good wine, good lust, and good hunting.
This Duke Huan of Qi is very frank, so in "Han Feizi" it was said that Duke Huan -
Dressed in hair and royal women, day trip to the city.
This means that Qi Huangong spent the day playing "car shock" with his hair on the street.
In this era, women engaged in this industry were not called prostitutes, but "female Lu".
In the Han Dynasty, China's land area increased, the main enemy was the Xiongnu in the north, and the war was not like the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the battlefield was at their own doorstep, but they needed to travel a long distance to the grasslands to pursue the Xiongnu.
In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, Emperor Wu of Han suddenly took the initiative to establish the first camp prostitute organization in the army. In the "History of Han Wu", it is said that
In ancient times, there were no prostitutes, and han wu began to set up prostitutes to wait for the wivesless chambers of the soldiers.
The system of "camp prostitutes" was not completely eliminated since the founding of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty until the founding of New China.
The service industry developed with economic development, and when Datang China reached the peak of the world, the prostitution industry also reached its most prosperous period.
In the Tang Dynasty, a large number of "female tricks" appeared, note that it was "tricks" and not "prostitutes". This side head is different, which also shows that the two professions have different meanings. "Tricks" are broader in scope and broader in scope, including "prostitutes".
The female tricksters of the Tang Dynasty, mainly performing talents, are a bit like today's various women's heavenly troupes, which are said to sell their art and not sell themselves. However, if those high-ranking officials and nobles of the Tang Dynasty had such needs, it is speculated that most of these female servants would not refuse.
In fact, the people engaged in these trades are not all women, but also men, so these groups of men and women also have a collective name, which is called "Happy Household". In fact, "Lehu" already appeared during the Han Dynasty, but the scale was too small to become a social phenomenon. The Tang Dynasty was different, and the whole society at all levels needed lehu to provide services, so it began to prosper.
In order to maintain the stability of market services, the children of these musicians must inherit and continue to be singers and dancers, and they will become generations of inheritance and cannot change careers. From the moment they are born, their fate for the rest of their lives has been decided, that is, to please others.
The Tang Dynasty was powerful and economically developed, so the number of Lehu households increased. When there are enough people in an industry, it is time to start rolling. Therefore, under the fierce competition, the music households were subdivided into several different grades, which were divided into palace tricks, official tricks, family tricks, camp tricks, city tricks, and private tricks.
The most senior is, of course, palace tricks, dedicated to royal service, mainly performed on stages of national and even international level.
Here we should mention that the emperor who understands the entertainment circle the most - Tang Xuanzong. Tang Xuanzong Li Long was proficient in musical rhythms, good at singing and dancing, and very theoretical. He himself built a "pear garden" in the imperial palace, and found the best "palace tricks" in the world to train intensively and choreograph dance dramas. Therefore, later generations called the drama line "Pear Garden Line", and Li Longji became the originator of the Pear Garden and accepted the worship of the dramatists.
Tang Xuanzong had high requirements for "palace tricks" and often visited the pear garden for guidance. The New Book of Tang Records records that——
Three hundred children were chosen to sit and teach in the pear garden. Those who make a mistake in their voices, the emperor will feel righteous and be called a disciple of the emperor Pear Garden.
"Official tricks", of course, the objects of service are officials. It is said that the sub-services here do not include "sex trafficking", but if the officials ask for it, they dare not say that the "official tricks" dare to resist.
"Camp tricks", that is, specially for the service of non-commissioned officers, the level and grade are low, and just dancing and singing will certainly not solve the needs of a bunch of wild men, "sex trafficking" is inevitable.
"House trick", that is, a female trick raised by a family as a whole, belongs to the family sharing. "Private tricks" refers to privately owned female tricks.
And what really grounded people and serves the broad masses of the people is still a "city trick." This was in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, due to the increasing number of people in Lefu, the Economy of the Tang Dynasty declined again, and it could not afford to support too many people, which led to the emergence of a more common market trick, facing the people of the city.
These maids mainly provided services in the north of Chang'an Pingkangfang, and there is a book "North Mile Zhi", which records the scene of the life of the maid at that time. The book records that at that time, the Ichijing trick took the "home" as the unit and received customers under the leadership of the "false mother" to make a living. This is the prototype of the brothel and the old bustard.
Although it is a performance for the people of the city, the professional quality is excellent, after all, it is all tongzigong, and because the frequency of performance in the city is higher, the distance with the audience is closer, so it is convenient for them to improve their own technology, so it even exceeds the "official trick" in entertainment. These female tricks, not only do cabaret performances, but also play meat,
It is recorded in the "Northern Chronicle" that -
The market tricks are also for sale, and every time you see guests stay overnight or for several days, there are countless people who have exhausted their assets for a long time.
The Tang Dynasty also had a group of the world's most cattle literati and inkers, writing poems, writing words, painting, and composing music, a large part of which was inspired by the enthusiasm for creation in the company of these female tricks.
It is recorded in the "Biography of Tang Caizi" that
Each poem is promiscuous, the reputation is a sudden increase in value, and the destruction of the car and horse sweep away.
These poets became the propaganda vehicles for the female tricksters, and they could benefit each other.
The story of the interaction between the talented man and the maid is both elegant and fragrant. Some of the most outstanding female tricks are even more powerful than the average literati. For example, Xue Tao, who was talented and chased after the great poets of that time. Who has sung and made peace with Xue Tao? Bai Juyi, Yuan Shu, Pei Du, Du Mu, etc., "Yu are all famous scholars, recorded twenty people", which shows the heat of Xue Tao at that time.
With the rapid development of the city trick, the "maid" gradually became a "female prostitute or prostitute", and the "false mother" gradually became a "bustard".
By the time of the Song Dynasty, The prostitute industry in China had reached its peak. The "Tokyo Dream Record" records that at that time, There were thousands of Tokyo's bieliang - there were no Yufang alleys, Yanguan Song Building, and tens of thousands.
At this point, prostitutes were divided into upper, middle and lower classes. The high-class prostitutes are "versatile, good at talking, balancing characters, and coping with them in a measured manner", and the reception is full of dignitaries and nobles, literati and rioters. Inferior prostitutes "silk bamboo orchestra, beautiful songs and dances, salty essence of their abilities." "Inferior prostitutes" are slightly less artistically pleasing.
After reading this classification, do you feel that at that time, even inferior prostitutes were stronger than they are now?
At that time, only the inferior among the inferior would openly engage in the pornography industry.
It is recorded in the "Capital City Kikatsu" that ,——
It is said that if there are prostitutes included, you can rejoice, and in the wine cabinet, there is also a hidden bed. On the red gardenia lamp at the head of the door, if it is not rainy or sunny, it will be covered with a gan, and it will be remembered.
Red gardenia is a sign of business, today's red light district, is translated from English, in fact, this word our ancestors have long had.
Except for those prostitutes who were purely engaged in "sex trafficking", in fact, other prostitutes were not discriminated against at that time, such as when men and women married, they would also make cameos in wedding companies.
"Dream Liang" said——
Gu borrowed the official prostitute to ride on a horse, and advocated with the Qianle official, went to the woman's house and married a new person.
Of course, the most famous prostitute in Chinese history was Li Shishi, because one of the prostitutes was the emperor of the Song Dynasty, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. Emperor Huizong of Song was not only an emperor, but also a painter, calligrapher, poet, and lyricist.
How beautiful is Master Li? Yan Jidao wrote——
The eyebrows of the distant mountains are long, and the waist and limbs of the thin willows are slender.
Make up and stand in the spring breeze, a smile of a thousand gold less.
When returning to Fengcheng, he said with Qinglou Road.
Looking at the Yingchuan flowers all over, it is not like the teacher.
When it came to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, and felt that so many official tricks, instead of using them himself, it was better to take them out to make money, so he established a famous national brothel - "Fule Yuan", and at the same time, opened various restaurants to welcome guests from all over the world, that is, the sixteenth floor of Nanjing.
Zhu Yuanzhang conceived very well when opening a brothel, stipulating that only merchants were allowed to enter, not officials. But how can this be managed? As a result, officials indulged in it, seriously affecting official duties. Therefore, during the Ming Xuande period, the official prostitutes were banned.
However, officials cannot be banned, and private tricks cannot be banned, and officials are still happy to do so.
The most famous prostitute in the Ming Dynasty was Liu Ru, and the reason why she was famous for thousands of years was that the prostitute was too famous. The prostitute is Qian Qianyi, that is, the Ming Dynasty confucian who is afraid of the cold water and does not want to throw himself into the river.
Originally, Qian Qianyi was going to take Liu Ru to the lake to commit suicide and martyr himself. Suddenly hesitating, Liu Ru asked him what was wrong, and he actually replied that the water was too cold, and he decided to change it another day!
Liu Ru was disappointed and angrily threw herself into the water. Qian Qianyi did the Qing Dynasty's Libu Shangshu another day.
The Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty abolished this thousand-year-old untouchable system, and the happy households also belonged to the untouchables, and after the cancellation of the happy households, the entire industry was scattered and the inheritance was broken. Then there is the Qing Dynasty's literary prison Daxing, which is easy for those literati to gather, which is not conducive to social management. However, private prostitution and secret prostitution were everywhere until the founding of New China, after rapid rectification, announced to the world that "China has eliminated pornography, gambling and drugs."
Judging from the development of history, in general, in addition to the real sale of art and not the sale of their bodies, prostitutes who do "sex trade" will always be cracked down, and prostitution is also prohibited and spurned by society. Because prostitution does not bring about social progress, its existence of a little positive effect of alleviating social contradictions is basically negligible, and its existence will also add new social problems.
In ancient China, the crackdown on officials and prostitutes was severe, which was also a fear of shaking the foundations of rule. Today, too, once officials are exposed to prostitution, their careers are basically over. And celebrities are public figures, all eyes, have influence and appeal that cannot be underestimated, and society's requirements for such people will naturally be very strict, no less than the requirements for officials. Therefore, like Li Yundi, Li Yifeng and the like, the lower body has a problem, and the whole career is finished.
Speaking of which, it is all a matter of human desires, and for thousands of years, it has not been completely forbidden to advance and retreat, but as a public figure, since he has enjoyed the benefits of the public attention, he must bear all kinds of constraints and control, especially to control his lower body, otherwise, don't blame the masses of the people for being rude!