Author: Sasha
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Sasha is serious nonsense No. 498
After reading "Pipa Xing", why do I think the pipa girl is not miserable at all?
If "Pipa Xing" is placed today, the Pipa Girl will definitely be crazy.
The Pipa Girl was a singer in the Tang Dynasty.
Although singers do not necessarily sell themselves, the ancients often thought that singers were prostitutes, and their reputation was extremely poor.
The etiquette of the Tang Dynasty was not as strict as it was later, but everyone was beautiful and had a small family of jasper, and they definitely couldn't show their heads casually, let alone perform songs and dances in front of a large group of strange men.
The status of the pipa girl is very low, and they are the same as prostitutes, they all eat the rice of youth.
After old age and decay, the pipa girl can no longer mix in the entertainment industry.
When she gave up her job and went home, she found that her younger brother was in the army and her sister was sick and dead, and the family was completely ruined, so she could only consider getting married.
It is impossible for a man of a slight status, even an ordinary citizen, to marry such a woman.
The Pipa girl was lucky enough to be married by a wealthy merchant who sold tea.
Naturally, the social status of merchants in the Tang Dynasty was not high, but after all, they were rich and quite wealthy in life.
For Pipa Girl, this should be a very good place to be.
Unexpectedly, the pipa girl disliked her husband for often going out to do business, couldn't accompany her, felt "empty, lonely, and cold", and complained to Bai Juyi, who she didn't know, crying.
Today, the Pipa Girl belongs to the standard green tea, and she doesn't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings.
Until the Republic of China, the status of artists in the entertainment industry was not much higher.
In ancient times, it was absolutely impossible for the children of serious families to do this, and doing this kind of work were the children of ordinary people who couldn't survive at the bottom, or the social blindness.
After Zhao Lirong visited Taiwan in the 90s, she believed that artists still had no social status in Taiwan, and the mainstream society looked down on "drama".
And when the pipa girl was young and beautiful, she thought too highly of herself, and she didn't look for a pick-up man.
Maybe there were too many men who stammered her back then, making her think that two-legged men were easy to find.
When she was old and decrepit and couldn't get along, the pipa girl found that no man was willing to marry her.
In ancient times, women could not live alone, and even if they had no financial problems, they had to be taken care of by their husbands or fathers.
In the novel "The Outer History of Confucianism", after the death of the famous Yan Jian Sheng, his concubine Zhao was straightened out and became a wife, focusing on raising their only son. Unexpectedly, not long after, the child was infected with the incurable disease smallpox and unfortunately died. At this time, the Zhao family owned hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from Yan Jiansheng, but they couldn't fight Yan Gongsheng, the beast uncle who came to rob the property.
In our opinion, Yan Gongsheng is so poor and a notorious guy, how can he beat such a rich Zhao family.
But that's how it was in ancient society, no matter how rich a woman is, it's useless. Once the husband dies, the woman cannot be the master of the house, and the major affairs of the family are generally handled by the men of the same race.
The key is that the Zhao family's mother's family is a villager at the bottom of the society, and there is still a big gap between them and the so-called "celebrities" like Yan Gongsheng, and they can't support the Zhao family.
The final result was that Yan Gongsheng seized seventy percent of the family property, and the Zhao family only kept thirty percent of the family property.
With the huge wealth of the strict prison family, Sancheng's family property was enough for the Zhao family to have enough food and clothing for the rest of their lives, but most of the family property was robbed by the beast uncle for no reason, which shows the status of women at that time.
In other words, if the pipa girl hadn't married this merchant, I'm afraid she wouldn't even be able to make ends meet.
At this time, a man who was willing to take over and was still quite a wealthy businessman appeared, and it can be said that the pipa girl burned high incense in the ancestral tomb.
Some people say that the status of merchants in the Tang Dynasty was not high, and it was not a big deal to be a businessman's wife.
In fact, the status of merchants in the early Tang Dynasty was indeed relatively low, and the reason why Li Bai could not be an official was because he was born into a merchant family.
Li Shimin and Li Longji's policies were both to emphasize agriculture and suppress merchants, and the society believed that merchants were inferior to peasants, and they were also discriminated against in paying taxes and clothing (the law stipulated that merchants were not allowed to wear silk and satin, and they also paid more taxes), and they were not allowed to associate with the scholar class (this is why Li Bai was despised in the upper class of the Tang Dynasty).
However, Bai Juyi's era was not the early Tang Dynasty, but the middle and late periods.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the central government and the feudal towns relied heavily on merchants for their finances, and the status of merchants improved greatly.
Businessmen can not only be officials, but also have open dealings with people in high society, and have a certain social status.
Everyone, please note that the full text does not say that the pipa girl is a concubine, and she should be the wife of a merchant, which is quite remarkable in itself.
Men in the Tang Dynasty did not have high requirements for concubines, and even many people accepted prostitutes as concubines, but there were certain requirements for marrying wives.
Who wants to marry a dusty woman? I'm afraid that my peers will laugh off my big teeth.
But the husband of the pipa girl is the reason.
What's more, this man is still very motivated, even if his family is rich, he does not wait for death, but is busy with business all day long.
Doing business in ancient times was different from today, it was very hard. In ancient times, the transportation was poor, and merchants had to travel long distances after leaving home, and they had to do business for a long time after arriving in other places, and it was common for them not to be able to go home for a few months.
In ancient times, the medical conditions were poor, and it was easy to get sick from A to B because of the lack of adaptation to water and soil (in fact, it was not adapted to foreign viruses and bacteria).
The hard and dangerous work is for the sake of his wife and children, and it seems that the pipa girl should be grateful to this man to the ground.
And the pipa girl actually blamed her husband for being busy with business and snubbing her, which is really awesome.
Let me ask, is it good for a businessman to accompany you to eat, drink, and have fun all day long, not to work, not to make money, and to the point of abject poverty in your family?
When the time comes, I am afraid that he will be scolded again for not seeking progress.
This pipa girl is close to today's green tea, on the surface, she is in the midst of blessing and does not know blessing, and her essence is selfish.
First, she was not grateful for her husband's kindness and care, but repeatedly scolded and complained because of some trivial things.
She is a woman who only cares about herself, regardless of whether others live or die, whether her family is good or bad. Whoever marries such a person is the ancestor who does not accumulate virtue.
Second, although the Tang Dynasty was open, how could the Pipa girl, as a married woman, let a strange man board the boat late at night to meet and get along alone?
Even today, if the husband goes out on business, and the wife takes a strange man home to be alone, it is also a big deal.
Moreover, Bai Juyi is really not a decent gentleman. Lao Bai was a well-known romantic poet at that time, with many wives and concubines around him, and the concubines changed every few years, all of whom wanted that kind of young and beautiful girl.
Such an old pervert went to visit the pipa girl late at night, and the merchant was afraid that his head would also be green.
It can be seen that the pipa girl's style has not changed, and her style is not decent.
As a former nightclub oiran, he can still successfully go ashore after being old, and he is not satisfied, he is really a person who is insatiable.
Speaking of which, it's just moaning without illness, a typical full of warm thoughts and lust.
In the TV series "Ninety-Five Supreme", Yongzheng, who has traveled to modern times, said: After so many years, science and technology have changed a lot, but people's hearts have always remained the same.
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