After Li Yundi's prostitution bombed the net, unlike Wu Yifan's overwhelming condemnation of suspected rape and arrest, Li Yundi gained more sympathy and regret. Probably because prostitution is not a crime, it belongs to the moral category, and since ancient times, talents have been in the flow, and many of the poems and chapters left by the ancients are related to prostitutes. In short, prostitution is a small mistake, because the small matter of prostitution kills an influential pianist on the international stage with a stick, and the punishment is too heavy and the attack is too fierce.
I thought that as long as the prostitute was forced, it would be hypocritical to excuse the prostitute for any high-sounding reason.
Chinese prostitutes originated as domestic prostitutes raised by slave owners in slave societies. Xia Jie once had 30,000 women's music and advocated excellence. Some called this "slave prostitute." These female slaves often had the dual mission of presenting themselves and offering skills for the slave owners to have sexual pleasures, and the history books called them waiters, concubines, prostitutes, singers, and dancers, and were also called beauties, female musicians, and prostitutes, and they could be collectively called "domestic prostitutes." These "domestic prostitutes" controlled by slave owners gradually evolved into "official prostitutes", that is, from serving one person or several people to serving society and for certain political, economic and social purposes of slave owners.
The chancellor of the State of Qi, Guan Zhong, set up a "female Lu", and the Warring States Policy and Eastern Zhou Ce has: "Seven female cities in the Qi Huan Gonggong, seven hundred female Lu." "Lu" is the meaning of the door, in the palace to take the door as the city, to raise women, this is the beginning of the ancient government to run a brothel.
The sources of prostitutes in this period were mainly prisoners of war and the families of criminals.
One is captivity. Some conquered households were regarded as "miscellaneous households" and "camp households", which were passed down from generation to generation, and their descendants could never leave the household registration of "happy households" and "camp households".
Even if the dynasty is changed, they still have to be slaves, and their wives and children, old and young, once they fall into the ranks of "camp households", cannot escape unless they "raise their nationality".
The second is the families of criminals. The Book of Sui and the Chronicle of the Penal Code says: "Liang System: Great rebels, mothers, wives, sisters, and subordinates, wives and concubines, and servants of the same supplementary Officials." Its robbers, wives replenish the army. He also said: "Wei and Jin have inherited each other, and the wives of those who have committed serious crimes have been replenished with troops." The so-called "replenishment" is to supplement the ranks of prostitutes.
The sources of official prostitutes were mainly prisoners of war and the families of criminals. The policy of officials who are not criminals' families as official prostitutes or slaves has a long history in ancient times, and the Zhou Li Qiu Guan says that "their slaves, men are admitted to crimes, and women are admitted to the gang."
The Han Law stipulates that the wife and daughter of a criminal are not official concubines. The Book of Quitting Cultivation says: "Now prostitutes are used as official slaves, that is, ancient officials and concubines. The "Book of Tang Lin Yun Biography" says: "Out of the History of Shaozhou Assassination, he killed Tao Yuanzhi with a staff, threw his corpse into the river, and used his wife as a prostitute." ”
The Book of Wei and the Chronicle of the Penal Code says: "Whoever kills a robber is the first to be beheaded, and his wife is matched with the same nationality as 'Lehu', and he does not kill anyone, and the stolen less than five horses, the leader is beheaded, the slave dies, the wife is also 'Lehu', the thief has ten horses on the horse, the leader dies, the wife is matched, and the slave flows." "During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the regulations were similar.
By the Northern Song Dynasty, there was no longer any need to enslave a large number of criminals and their wives and daughters, and only civilian women who committed adultery were admitted to the "Happy Household".
The source of prostitutes in the Ming Dynasty, as in the previous dynasties, was mainly due to political and economic reasons or being bullied. Prostitutes are the families of captives or criminals, and the Three Winds and Ten Sorrows chronicle the desert clouds: "Ming Dynasty, where the descendants of Mongol tribes wandered through China, they were incorporated into the household register." It is called a happy household in Beijing Province, and a beggar household in Zhouyi. ”
Another source of prostitutes is the sale of prostitutes to prostitution because they are poor or deceived or plundered. The Yuan and Ming dynasties strictly prohibited "buying good as prostitution". The Tang Ming Law Compilation records the Ming Dynasty's prohibition in this regard: "Whoever buys the children of a prostitute and a good person as a prostitute and marries a concubine, or begs for a child, has a staff of one hundred, and the insider is guilty of the same crime, the matchmaker is reduced by one class, the financial gift is entered into the official, and the child returns to the sect." ”
Yongzheng abolished palace and official prostitutes, but the private prostitute industry in the Qing Dynasty became increasingly prosperous, and prostitutes were mostly forced by life.
As for prostitution, in view of the fact that some officials were addicted to this and the government was much in ruins, Ming Taizu strictly forbade officials to stay in prostitution, and violators were severely punished. Though forgiven, he will live forever."
That is, although prostitutes are allowed to exist legally and are open to the public, civilian and military officials are not allowed to stay in prostitution.
Ming Taizu also took a measure, that is, to order the abolition of the Untouchable class left by the Ming Dynasty as prostitutes and the restoration of good people. It is strictly forbidden for officials to prostitute themselves.
In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, from Shunzhi to Yongzheng, several edicts were issued and some measures were taken to prohibit and ban prostitution.
During the reign of Qing Yongzheng, the edict abolished official prostitutes, and the Yongzheng Huidian said: "The Yongzheng Three-Year Law Is accurate: so that all provinces have no official music workers." It can be seen from this that the source of prostitutes was originally mainly the families of prisoners of war and criminals, and later women who were sold into prostitution because of their poverty or deception and plunder. In short, there is no voluntary one from the prostitute.
For the first time, the Yongzheng Emperor negated and abolished the music registration system in the form of a law that had been in place for more than 1,000 years, rendering prostitution a prostitute a delegitimized.
After reading this article, will you still say that Li Yundi was wronged?