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    Carve every brow and heart well, and think through the painting.

    Contaminated, the ink is dripping, thousands of family texts are yellowed, the night is quiet, and the window screens are slightly bright.

    Dancing with sleeves and wandering in dreams, lovesickness spreads across my heart.

    She is nostalgic, pear blossom tears, who will return to Jinghua red makeup?  The Iraqis left empty, slowly haggard.

    ah!  Rouge fragrance, rolling bead curtain, who is it for?

    ah!  Not seeing Gao Xuan, Ye Yueming felt embarrassed at this moment.

    The drizzle fell into the early spring morning, quietly awakening the branches and buds.

    Listening to the breeze, ringing in the ear, sighing at the flowing water and falling flowers, who is playing the piano long in the smoke and clouds

    Walking across the street, the singing of "Rolling Beaded Curtain" came from the house opposite.  Listening to this melancholy melody, my heart trembled involuntarily.

    What is the bead curtain for?  What does she want to see when she rolls up?  What did she want to block when she put it down?  The "curtain" plays the role of "blocking" in the room, and there is transparency in the blocking, emptiness in the reality, and movement in the stillness.

    "Curtain" has the meaning of "love", so there is "love" in the "bead curtain".

    Did ancient people have "love"?

    Marriage in ancient times was "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker". Before the marriage, they could not meet each other at all, and only after entering the bridal chamber could they have a rough look by the dim candlelight. I think the "love" at that time was definitely not "love".

    In ancient times, it was believed in being a daughter-in-law: "A woman who has no talent is a virtue." Women must be dignified, do things in a decent manner, have a harmonious relationship between husband and wife, and respect each other as guests.  Now that we all get along as "like guests", there will be no such intimacy and romantic feelings.

    Although husband and wife get along for a long time, there will always be some affection, but with the birth of the child, this "feeling" has already become "family affection".

    The boring family life made ancient men always feel that there was something missing in life, what was missing?  There is a lack of emotion.

    So they thought of Fengyue place.

    Women in Fengyue place enjoy more freedom than others in terms of love, and they have the right to choose.  In other words, normal men can love them, and they can fall in love with any man.

    Women in Fengyue places are called "prostitutes".  Prostitutes are divided into official prostitutes, camp prostitutes, domestic prostitutes, and private prostitutes.

    "Official prostitute" was first invented by Guan Zhong, the prime minister of Qi State in the Spring and Autumn Period.

    His main purposes: First, to increase government revenue through taxation; second, to help social stability; third, to attract a large number of talents;  Guan Zhong's invention was quickly imitated by other countries, and the official prostitutes flourished for a while.

    There are three main sources of official prostitutes: one is the family members of sinners - the ancient human rights unit is not an individual, but a family.  When one person commits a crime, the whole family is often implicated.  The usual formula is that the men are slaughtered and the women are reduced to official prostitutes.  The second is the slave trade - China traded slaves, and there was a big scene of being with cows and horses. People became cows and horses. What human rights are there?  The third is to fall into prostitution - it is a kind of human trafficking in disguise, but the people who are traded are originally women from good families.

    ?Because it is public, the government has a special agency.  In the Tang Dynasty, this kind of institution belonged to "Taichang" first, then "Jiaofang" and was under the jurisdiction of "Leying".  Jiaofang was originally an art rehearsal institution set up by the government. It was an official office in charge of comedians and acrobatics, and taught court folk music. Among them, highly skilled artists could often perform for the emperor.

    It was founded by Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty, and it was established in Song, Jin, Yuan and Ming dynasties. During Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, all the outstanding artists of Jiaofang were recruited into the palace, and they performed in the palace all the year round.  With the loss of entertainers and being difficult to maintain, it began to decline, so that it later merged with neighboring brothels.  Therefore, the Jiaofang did not become a brothel until the Ming Dynasty. Before the Ming Dynasty, it was an official song and dance rehearsal organization. Even though the atmosphere in the Tang Dynasty was open and the Jiaofang was full of romance, it was not a brothel. The people inside were entertainers, not prostitutes.

    When Wang Anshi reformed, everything was sold publicly, and wine was one of them.  In order to sell wine, prostitutes were actually sent as salespersons. This was the predecessor of the restaurant.  It's hard for people to imagine now: the restaurant was originally run by the government, and its original purpose was to sell the wine made by the government for national use.  This is the strange idea of ??Wang Anshi, a serious politician.

    "Ying prostitute" is a kind of geisha among official prostitutes who specially serves the army. The earliest inventor was Goujian, king of Yue, and it officially became a system in the Han Dynasty.  After the Han Dynasty, domestic prostitutes flourished and reached their peak in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

    The status of "house prostitutes" is between concubines and maidservants, and they are dedicated to providing artistic services to their masters.  Domestic prostitutes generally received strict artistic training, which actually represented the highest artistic level at that time.  Chinese music and dance are not only carried forward by them, but also passed down by them.  However, regardless of official prostitutes and domestic prostitutes, they have no personal freedom, and the master can buy and sell them at will.Intellectuals who have lost their official career, either for their livelihood or to express their anger, a large number of literati flocked to the brothel to speak for the women in the brothel and appeal to their confidante.

    As a result, Yuan Opera became popular rapidly in the Yuan Dynasty.  Yuanqu is the collective name of Yuan Zaju and Sanqu. Zaju is opera and Sanqu is poetry, which belong to different literary genres.

    A large part of "Yuanqu" was produced at the banquet of "Chuanjiu Ling Jinbei Yushun", and formed an indissoluble bond with the "Geisha" of "Golden Sleeves".

    Art means talent and skill.

    In the brothel women in the Yuan Dynasty, those who performed art were called "prostitutes", and those who sold themselves were "prostitutes".  But both "prostitutes" and "prostitutes" are often known for their skills.  In the same way, as a "trickster", it is inevitable that the brothel will sell jokes.  Therefore, let's call them "geisha".

    ?Because they want to "become an entertainer with color", most of these brothel women are versatile and versatile. They have developed their skills in the fierce competition and are the main force in singing and disseminating zaju.  Geisha were a group of literati in the Yuan Dynasty who had close contact with each other. They cherished each other, so geisha became the object of literati singing.

    In the works of singing prostitutes, the scope of description is wider and the degree of description is more realistic. It can be solemn and humorous, it can be ridiculed, it can be joking, it can be the most daring description of "sex", and it can be the most daring description of "sex" and the tone of various characters.  It can be said that the description is perfect.

    So, what does the "brothel" where these "geisha" live look like?

    In fact, most brothels are a general term for a large courtyard, and the buildings inside are more particular: there are generally willows and other trees in front of the door, and the scenery of running water is usually indispensable in front of the window, and flowers, pools, etc.  A pleasant place is also essential.

    The place where the girls live is called "brothel".  In their Accord, the furnishings are very elegant, not shabby, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, pens, inks, papers and inkstones are essential items, antique porcelain and other furnishings are also essential, and the screens and bead curtains in front of the bed are also very important.  Exquisite.

    The number one or red card girl in the brothel is not something that everyone can see, and it is not something you can do if you have money.  Because these brothel girls who have won the reputation of oiran, once they become famous, there will be many powerful and wealthy people as their backers.

    Generally speaking, they will not welcome visitors casually.  Even if some guests were lucky enough to meet them, they were all polite and did not dare to touch them.

    So, what did the men in ancient times do when they came to the brothel?

    Because in ancient times, brothels were relatively high-end entertainment places, and ordinary people were generally unable to enter, so the quality of the guests was very high, and the visitors were also people with high social status, mainly literati and scholar-bureaucrats.  , Wealthy businessmen, high-ranking people in the rivers and lakes, etc., among which most of them are literati.  Some of them live a life of playing games and laughing proudly in the world, while others put their love on their lovers and confidantes and enjoy the warmth and soft jade.

    Of course, not every man who goes to brothels will have sex with girls. There are many literati who just sit there, drink a few cups of tea, eat a few snacks, chat or listen to girls sing a few verses  ditties; there are also some who like to sing poems and paint with girls, drink and play chess.  Then they will leave, and they will not be so clinging.

    Literary works generally like to write about love, morality and sex, and if these most basic themes can be brought together through the specific role of a prostitute, what color will appear?

    Below, most of the stories I will tell are the love stories in the bead curtain. She is the first story in the series of "Treading the Countryside: Rolling Bead Curtain" [alias "The Story of the Bead Curtain"].

    She described the simple and mellow countryside in the "Book of Songs", the true emotions of poets Li Bai and Du Fu, and the desolate stories of the era of Pu Songling and Cao Xueqin.

    I have integrated ancient love legends with poems and songs for further interpretation, and put them in the specific era of the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty for matching and romance, and show you a series of poignant love stories. I hope you can  like.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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