As a place to find pleasure, Qinglou was a very common industry in ancient times. Its existence, like casinos and smoke houses, represents the ugliest side of the human heart. In many dynasties, these were despised professions. But it has to be admitted that these industries are all big taxpayers of imperial court taxes.
The Qinglou, on the other hand, is mainly a poor woman who sells her body, saying that she is a woman, in fact, it is more like a guest's plaything. In the old society, where fertility was valued, women became pregnant, which was an advantage, but also a nuisance that had to be avoided. Because I have to talk to guests every day, but pregnancy rarely happens. Why do Qinglou women rarely get pregnant? It turns out that women in this profession have special protective measures. These methods seem clever, but they are actually cruel.
The Qinglou industry has existed since ancient times and has flourished for countless dynasties. The reason why there are so many women is not because they want to do this industry, but because in every era, there will always be some poor people who can't survive.
If divided by occupation, these women are basically sinners, poor, and deceived. First of all, looking at the crimes, these women are generally the daughters of large families, and their families have made mistakes, so they will be implicated. They cannot be exiled to the border like the male Ding, and can only be arranged by the government in the official fangshi, that is, the official green building, or directly sold to the private green building in exchange for money. The second is better to say, that is, life is compelled. Either sold by parents or to support their own children. It is also possible that the parents are dead, the husband is dead, the source of livelihood is lost, and there is no one to rely on. They had to sell their bodies and go to the Qinglou to seek a living. The worst is the latter category, most of which have been tricked into the green building. They may be in some trouble, or they may have been deceived by acquaintances, thinking that they can live a better life somewhere else. After being fooled into entering the city from a poor countryside, he secretly sold it to Qinglou under the pretext of working part-time or introducing him to marry a rich person. But anyway, after entering the green building, their lives have undergone earth-shaking changes. Except for a very few lucky ones who left alive, the rest of the people are dead ends. Not only the guests use them as tools, but also the treasurers and stewards of the Qinglou, and they also use them as tools to make money. Since it is only a tool, the body is naturally not its own, and pregnancy is definitely prohibited. There are even many managers who, in order to avoid such a situation, have developed a contraceptive method.
In ancient times, due to the backwardness of medical technology, coupled with wars and natural and man-made disasters from time to time, the population has always been very small. To cope with this crisis, people had to maintain productivity by increasing fertility. In those days when it was necessary to have children, not having children was simply nonsense. It was originally used to solve the problem of too many children and not being able to feed children, but I didn't expect it to be used here, which is really ironic. During the Ming Dynasty, an artifact called "yin yin" was invented. The material used is a thin paper similar to silk, which is dipped in oil and preserved. This is a tool very close to modern times, and in earlier times, people used sheep intestines, fish bladders and the like. Of course, this kind of thing that purely protects the health of women is difficult for guests to use together.
Therefore, at that time, most of them were clean. It is said that long ago, they washed their bodies with saffron juice and it worked well. In addition, there are many Qinglou methods that inject foreign substances into the body, and the effect is similar to the former. However, due to the backwardness of physiological contraceptive technology, most female-dominated contraceptive methods have limited effectiveness and are still difficult to avoid. Once you are pregnant, whether you miscarry or not, you will not be able to receive any guests for a long time. This kind of accident made the bosses of the Qinglou unacceptable, so they came up with a more vicious method.
Why is drug treatment worse? In fact, the success rate and danger of doing so are much higher than physical means. However, most of the prescriptions recorded in the Chinese medicine texts are expensive medicinal herbs, which is too expensive for the owner of the Qinglou.
Therefore, people have turned their attention to drugs that are cheap and curative, but extremely harmful to the human body. These drugs have a common feature, and they are usually highly toxic. Among them, crane top red and mercury are the two most commonly used. Needless to say, Wu Da Lang was poisoned by this thing back then, and ordinary people will use it to kill rodents, cockroaches and the like. Mercury is highly toxic, and many kings will take "elixirs" containing mercury, and if they take too much, they will die. Generally, when taking medication, the dose will be reduced, so as to ensure that you cannot get pregnant and will not be poisoned. Even if the dose is small, long-term use will cause irreversible damage to the body. What's more, some of the bosses of the green building deliberately made those who were in charge of Hua Dan addicted to drugs. In this way, the money they earn can buy big cigarettes, and they can indirectly control these women. Once they become addicted, it is impossible to get pregnant again because their bodies have been destroyed by the smoke. Think about it, how can a woman, dragging a broken body, come out of the green building?
After the founding of New China, unprecedented blows were carried out on industries such as Qinglou Big Smoke, and unprecedented results were also achieved. It is because of such policies that women in our country can live better and live better lives.