"Dream of the Red Chamber" is inclusive, although it revolves around the rich life of Jia Fu, but the people's livelihood is interspersed in many plots, and the occasional mention is impressive.
At that time, there were monks living in Jia Province, such as temples, nunneries, and Taoist temples. There are also the ten-wayers, the first to tell the book, the vaudeville artists and the lower nine streams of various drama classes. Then there are the brothels of the Qinglou and the hundred industries in the world. This is not to mention decent people such as door cleaners and tutors.
One of these industries has been mentioned many times, but it has not been taken seriously or even ignored. That is the "South Pavilion", also known as the "Elephant Gu Pavilion".
The South Pavilion is the "Men's Pavilion", also known as the Hive, and the Song Dynasty rose to be called the "Elephant Gu Pavilion", as the name suggests, it is not explained.
The Ming Dynasty banned official prostitutes and stipulated that scholars and doctors should be stopped. The "XiangguGuan" has risen again, and the Existence of the Qing Dynasty has not been allowed.
The South Pavilion is full of underage squatters, specializing in serving dignitaries and dignitaries. Like many banquets of the Men of the Jia family, there is a "Xianggong" existence. Most of them are called "rabbits", which is also commonly known as child prostitution.
(Twenty-eighth time) all the way to the door of Feng Ziying's house, someone reported to Feng Ziying and came out to greet her. I saw that Xue Pan had been there for a long time, and there were many Small Squatters who sang songs and sang Xiao Dan, jiang Yuhan, and Yun'er, a prostitute in Jinxiangyuan.
Feng Ziying invited guests, and the main guests were only Jia Baoyu and Xue Pan. Among the accompanying guests, Jiang Yuhan, who sings Xiaodan, is in the lower nine streams, belonging to the star figure and the person who adds color.
Jinxiangyuan is the Qinglou Chu Pavilion. Yun'er is a Qing'er who sells her art and does not sell herself, she is a prostitute, lower than Jiang Yuhan, but she is also a famous person at the bottom of society.
They are able to come to the table, representing a head and a face. But those "little squatters" who sang songs, that is, the prostitutes in the South Pavilion, had no status and were no different from slaves!
At that time, the status of "Xianggong" was extremely low and could not be put on the table. Yun'er and Jia Baoyu and other friends, many famous prostitutes are highly sought after by literati. The "Xianggong" of the South Pavilion are also seriously involved, divided into three, six, nine, and so on, and it is extremely difficult to get ahead. Specifically, it is divided into five grades.
First, the first hair: within fourteen years old, the appearance is as delicate as a woman, the best.
Second, shawls: slightly older, with masculine features, secondary first class.
Third, the first captive: a weak-crowned man in his early twenties, third class.
Fourth, the old pickpocket: twenty-five years old is the limit, the last class.
Fifth, the net towel: wash your hands and retire from the circle, you can go out and start a family.
In order to pursue and meet the preferences of the upper class, most of these Xianggong (Xianggong) of the South Pavilion are eleven- and twelve-year-old children, just a plaything, and their status is still inferior to that of the little squatters around Jia Lian and Jia Zhen.
The children in the South Pavilion come from the same origin as the Yangzhou Skinny Horse, except that abduction is to buy. Even if the children of ordinary people are slaves, they are more decent than the South Pavilion.
Like Li Youxian in "Ben and Chao", who sold himself the South Pavilion to pay off his father's debts, he was forced to pick up guests to "call three times a night", "once should be late, thirty leather whips, and will not be spared at once." "If you don't comply, you will be beaten and persecuted." Even if the mouth contains sesame oil, it must not drip out when beaten, otherwise it will be beaten.
Li Youxian is the tragic embodiment of the Nanguan Xianggong. In this regard, Cao Xueqin also explained.
Uncle Xing scolded, "This is how you rabbits are pouring water. Every day in one place, whose favor you do not stick, but I lost a few silver in this moment, you will wait for three, six or nine. Have you never asked us for anything from now on! The two prostitutes were all acting tricks, and they all knelt down to offer wine, saying: "We, the people in the line, no matter how thick or small the master teaches, only to see that they are rich and powerful for a while, they are the living Buddha gods and immortals, and when they have no money for a while, they are not allowed to pay attention to him." Moreover, we are young and in this line, so we will go over and ask our uncle and grandfather for forgiveness. With that, he knelt down with wine.
The two child prostitutes are equivalent to the old bustards of the South Pavilion. Like the Jia family, most of the door-to-door services are famous "guild halls", and they will not pick people casually. The restaurant run by the two child-prostitute masters is also a high-end consumption place.
The irony is that "seeing profit and forgetting righteousness" and "climbing strong and attaching to the situation" are said from the mouths of two children, which is the most painful and shameful.
But no matter what, they can't escape the sad end of their being played. Jinxiangyuan's Qing'er Yun'er was stronger than them, I don't know how much. They are the ultimate in being insulted and damaged.
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