Is ancient brothel legal? Why did the Ming Dynasty seal brothels to eliminate pornography?

As we all know, in the past, brothels were legal. As long as you had money, you could play in this area. However, a dynasty carried out a massive anti-vice campaign, which ended in failure, but it was the first time in history. Let's have a look.

Who was the first person to eliminate pornography in the history of China?

According to records, the first advocate in the history of China was Zhu Zhanji, the eldest son of Emperor Renzong of Ming Dynasty. He was a wise man with words and weapons. He realized that the development of prostitution in society slowly made the rulers finally feel its corrosion to the social system. He ordered the beginning of the campaign against pornography and prostitution.

Speaking of this time, we have to start with Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang established his capital in Jinling, he established a "state-owned brothel" on the Qinhuai River, which was called the quadrangle and later called the old courtyard. According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang personally wrote couplets for the compound: there are beautiful mountains and water, beautiful wind and beautiful moon; It also has beautiful women and beautiful things, adding a thousand years of beautiful vocabulary. There are many stupid men and women in the world who are obsessed with dreams; The situation is even more spoony, and it is several generations of idiots.

These brothels are all over the busy streets of Nanjing. Their names are Laibin, Chongyi, Qingjiang, Shicheng, heming, Zuixian, Jixian, Jipin, Drum Belly, Light Smoke, Danfen, Meiyan, Liu Cui, Heather and Beishi. There are official prostitutes for bureaucrats and literati to guess boxing, order songs and dance.

Brothels are so prosperous that they have developed a flashy world style. At that time, famous scholars and businessmen generally took whoring as an affair, which became a social atmosphere at that time.

At that time, customers were roughly divided into the following categories: elegant literati, ordinary customers and simple customers. Prostitutes are also divided into several types: palace prostitutes, camp prostitutes, domestic prostitutes and secret prostitutes; Geisha is divided into geisha, music prostitute and wine prostitute.

Female prostitutes (private prostitutes) are purely attractive in color, live a life of flesh and blood, and have no skills such as literature, painting and music, not to mention poetry, music, piano, chess and calligraphy, playing and singing. Now the so-called "missing" is also true.

Many dignitaries don't ask about state affairs, indulge in singing and dancing, and have fun; Some celebrities, sages and prostitutes travel and have fun, which makes the rouge of Qinhuai River so thick that it is almost insoluble. People with lofty ideals and talented women with various amorous feelings have staged many unforgettable affairs, and there have also been sad tragedies in the world.

No wonder some people say that "loyal ministers are not as good as traitors and famous prostitutes are not as good as famous prostitutes" in the Ming Dynasty. The depravity and preference of literati also objectively aggravated the prosperity of brothels. In the middle and late Ming dynasty, the roster also became popular.

Hua Dan rose in Song Dynasty, which was rare in Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, but it became popular again after the middle of Ming Dynasty. The so-called "flower list" is to evaluate the physical appearance and amorous feelings of prostitutes according to certain standards. This is similar to the present beauty pageant.

Later, the "prostitution classics" that studied and evaluated prostitutes appeared and became the guide for prostitutes at that time. From this point of view, it is a mainstream culture for Ming people to open brothels. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were more and more prostitutes, and prostitutes were all over the world. At that time, there were thousands of big cities, even in inland areas, there were many people.

With the development of prostitution, the rulers finally felt its corrosion to the social system. The emperor was Zhu Zhanji, Emperor Xuanzong of Ming Dynasty. Zhu Zhanji, the eldest son of Emperor Renzong of Ming Dynasty, was born in the first year of Wen Jian (1399). He was a wise man who could write and fight.

When Zhu Zhanji proclaimed himself emperor, the national platform was slack, officials became more and more corrupt and indulgent, and they were addicted to pleasure all day. In order to save this declining country, Zhu Zhanji launched the first large-scale anti-pornography campaign in China on 1429.

He ordered the closure of a large number of brothels in Beijing and other big cities, abolished the original official prostitute system, and prohibited officials from leaving prostitutes in prostitution places. However, there are no restrictions on the folk prostitution industry.

At that time, the main purpose of Zhu Zhanji's anti-vice campaign was to consolidate the imperial industry and prevent officials from being whored, thus making the so-called "parents" image more positive. Therefore, this anti-vice campaign only played a deterrent role for officials, but it did not really ban prostitution.

What Zhu Zhanji didn't expect was that officials also considered the countermeasures against his anti-pornography campaign. According to the size of their official positions, they began to adopt wives and concubines to solve the problem of sexual needs. In this way, Ming Xuanzong's campaign against pornography ended in failure.