The Qinglou is a place that provides special services and has existed since the Spring and Autumn period.
In 645 BC, under the rule of Duke Huan of Qi, the first government-run brothel in China, the "Nülu", was born.
After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Qinglou service industry flourished, and the Qinglou culture was also carried forward.
In the Tang Dynasty, the status of the Qinglou women was further improved, and Xue Tao, a big name in the music book (official prostitute), was once appreciated by Wei Gao by the Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu, making her the secretary of the provincial government.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > in most dynasties, Qinglou was a legal place of business. </h1>
According to the different hardware and software, the Qinglou also has a grade; such as official kilns, civil kilns, private kilns, etc.
The grades are different and the charges are different. Simple places charge dozens of yuan, and high-end green buildings charge a few two or ten silver.
Like the famous prostitute Li Shishi of the Song Dynasty; the Ming Dynasty Qinhuai Bayan Liuru, Dong Xiaowan, Chen Yuanyuan, Ma Xianglan, Chen Yuanyuan, Kou Baimen; and the famous prostitute Xiao Fengxian of the Republic of China, these big names, the fees are almost sky-high.
The value of these big names in the industry is also very high, and if they want to restore their freedom (redeem themselves), they have to pay a high price.
The "Yingmei An Reminiscences" records that 19-year-old Dong Xiaowan redeemed 3,000 taels of silver, equivalent to 1.5 million yuan now.
The high-value women have brought very high benefits to the old bustards in the Qinglou, and the old bustards are eager to implement the weekly nine-nine-six or even "007" working system for them.
However, once the Qinglou woman has a large workload, the probability of pregnancy is very high. After pregnancy, you will definitely not be able to work and entertain guests, which will affect the revenue of Qinglou.
If they give birth, they also have to breastfeed, and give them maternity leave, their leaders will certainly not be happy.
The women in the Qinglou are all paid for, and the old bustards invest very high in them and use them as cash cows.
Most of the prostitutes came from poor families, and their parents were poor before they were forced to sell them and find a way to survive. Some girls were targeted by human traffickers and abducted to the Qinglou.
No matter what channel you buy, no matter how much money you spend when you buy, when the trafficker sells, the asking price is very high.
In order to make them more money, the owner of the Qinglou (old bustard) also trains them and lets them learn to treat people and things.
The high-end Qinglou also teaches them poetry, song, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting to improve their taste, so that they can charge more.
Regardless of the grade of the bustard, the investment is for output and return.
Those old bustards who are eager to smoke their hearts are eager to let those women serve until they are old, until they are old and yellow, and they squeeze the oil and water dry, and no one wants them.
If the Woman in qinglou is pregnant, she will have to take a vacation, and the income will be affected.
So even if the women are willing to get pregnant, the old bustard does not agree, which is equivalent to cutting off his own financial road.
In fact, the women who work in the Qinglou do not want to get pregnant.
They don't want to work in a dark place for a lifetime, they want to save enough money to redeem themselves, find someone who hurts themselves, and live in peace. If they become pregnant, they are not allowed to stop working and reduce their income.
In this matter, the attitude of the employee and the boss is the same.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > so how do women in Qinglou take contraception? </h1>
Contraception is a technical job, and until now the success rate is not 100%.
Before the Tang Dynasty, there were almost no contraceptive methods, and the fetus could only be miscarried when it was pregnant.
The most common method of miscarriage is to drink a special tea or soup medicine, with mercury added to it, and drinking it into the stomach will affect the development of the fetus, and eventually lead to miscarriage.
This method is very cruel and will destroy the function of the uterus.
After drinking, women may lose their fertility; but the old bustard is willing to solve the problem once and for all.
After a long period of exploration, the ancients found that some plants or animals would lead to miscarriage after eating.
Zhang Zhongjing of the Han Dynasty recorded these drugs in the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", "Appendages: taste spicy and sweet, big heat, and great poison." ...... Abortion is long for white medicine. ”
The Southern Dynasty Liang Dynasty Tao Hongjing's "Notes on the Materia Medica" set up a special abortion (abortion) medicine, which includes more than 40 kinds of abortion (abortion) prescriptions.
In addition to internal abortion (abortion) drugs, there are also external drugs such as "smearing the feet with the end of the appendage" (abortion).
Another method that is more common is musk abortion.
Musk has the effect of opening up the mind, activating blood and scattering, relieving pain and swelling, and spawning the next fetus, which could not have made people infertile.
However, as long as it is taken, it can achieve the purpose of miscarriage.
There are a few pregnant women who are sensitive to musk, and when they smell the musk, the uterus will begin to contract, and it is easy to miscarry.
Moreover, the pregnancy rate of women who smell musk for a long time is very low, and pregnant women are prone to miscarriage for a long time
In addition, eating apricots and almonds often can also achieve the purpose of abortion.
Apricots are acidic and hot, and have a slippery tire effect.
Saffron can also cause miscarriage, because its main effect is to activate blood and dissolve stasis, and pregnant women cannot use Traditional Chinese medicine that activates blood and dissolves stasis.
And saffron also has a contraceptive effect, which can cause the fertilized egg to be difficult to implant.
In the Tang Dynasty, foreign exchanges increased day by day, and many contraceptive methods in Europe spread to China.
For example, implanting wool wool balls soaked with gum arabic, coconut and honey into a woman's body can prevent pregnancy.
Although this prescription is backward, it has proven to be very effective.
Because gum arabic contains lactic acid, it is a natural spermicide.
The above methods are not only harmful to the human body, but also may lead to loss of fertility, and the operation is troublesome.
Therefore, the most ideal way is to wear a "condom".
In ancient China, some people used "condoms", and its materials were animal casings and pig bladders.
Along the southeast coast, some people have tried to use fish maws as condoms.
However, it is not easy to find a size that suits you, too large or too small, and it has not been popularized.
Around 1640 AD, people explored and mastered the method of making condoms with fish maws.
It is to stitch the maw with silk thread, one end with an elastic rope, which will not fall off; the other end is locked with silk thread, and there is no leakage.
In terms of appearance, it is very similar to a condom, but it is relatively dry and stiff, and it needs to be soaked overnight with mild milk to use.
In short, limited by the backward level of hygiene and technology in ancient times, the ancient contraception was very difficult, and the success rate was very low. The double destruction of the psychology of prostitutes in the old society can be imagined.