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The earliest brothel was opened in that dynasty?

Historical records show that the earliest prostitutes in China were the Hongyi prostitutes of the Three Emperors era. Xia Jie is said to have stored up 30,000 female musicians. Starting from the palace prostitutes of the supreme ruler, rulers at all levels owned household prostitutes with numerous names, such as serving girls, concubines, voice prostitutes, singers, dancers, beauties and so on. The commoners, on the other hand, relied on witch prostitutes to fulfill their desire to possess more than two women. The merger of domestic prostitutes and witch prostitutes led to the emergence of government prostitutes, i.e., prostitutes operated by the government. The earliest inventor of the official prostitute was Guan Zhong, the prime minister of the state of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period. He set up a state brothel with 700 prostitutes. By coincidence, Thoreau, the political reformer of Athens in Ancient Greece, who lived at about the same time as Guan Zhong, also opened a state brothel to, first, satisfy the demands of young men and, second, protect good women from harassment. Guan Zhong's brothels served a much greater purpose. Firstly, it increased the government's financial income through taxation, secondly, it was conducive to social stability, thirdly, it attracted a large number of talents, and fourthly, it sent prostitutes to fight with the enemy without bloodshed. Guanzhong's invention was soon imitated by other countries, a moment of official brothels flourished. There is a kind of official prostitutes specifically for the military service, called camp prostitutes, the earliest inventor is the Yue Wang Goujian, and formally become a system in the Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, domestic prostitutes flourished, and reached its peak in the North and South Dynasties. The status of a domestic prostitute was between a concubine and a servant girl. Concubine is to satisfy the physical needs of the master, maidservant is to serve tea and sweep the floor, make the bed and fold the quilt, while the role of the domestic prostitute is to provide artistic services for the master. House prostitutes generally received strict artistic training, and in fact represented the highest level of art at that time. Chinese music and dance were not only developed by them, but also inherited from them. However, no matter whether they were government prostitutes or domestic prostitutes, they had no personal freedom, and their masters could buy, sell and kill them at will. With the development of business, the prosperity of the city, in the government prostitutes, domestic prostitutes outside, the emergence of individual business of private prostitutes, which is the true meaning of the brothel prostitutes. Private prostitutes have appeared in the pre-Qin Dynasty, to the Six Dynasties began to be active, to the Tang Dynasty to flourish, has continued to the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, became a great spectacle of ancient Chinese society. Private prostitutes can be divided into two categories. One is officially registered with the government, under the Church, called the city prostitutes. The other type of unlicensed business households, is the name of private prostitutes. Private prostitutes' artistic cultivation is not as good as that of government prostitutes and domestic prostitutes, and they have wider contact with the society, and their cultural composition is also more complicated. All these make the culture of the green house is full of colorful and varied. Today people's mind of the green house, most of them are poetic green house. Literary works that poeticize the green house are almost always the same as the green house, **** fate. Without the green house, I am afraid that Chinese literature should be reduced by half, and without literature, the green house is just a simple place for flesh trading. Poetry and classic era of openness, is the golden age of male and female love. In the era of Chu Shi, witch prostitution was prevalent, and there were no direct works about prostitutes. After the Qin and Han dynasties, works about prostitutes began to appear, but when prostitutes entered literature, they were valued for their art rather than their color. In the Nineteen Ancient Poems, there are whole poems about prostitutes, and during the Six Dynasties, there were more works about listening to and watching prostitutes. By the Tang Dynasty, it was even more flourishing. Of the nearly 50,000 poems in the All-Tang Poems, more than 2,000 are about prostitutes, accounting for about one-twentieth of the total. from the early Tang to the full Tang Dynasty, prostitutes in greenhouses were mostly in the position of being scrutinized in literature, as represented by Li Bai's poems. From the middle Tang Dynasty onwards, in addition to watching prostitutes and carrying prostitutes, there appeared a group of parting prostitutes, pregnant prostitutes, sending prostitutes, gifting prostitutes, wounded prostitutes, mourning prostitutes, and added sentimental colors to the poetic Qinglou, of which Bai Juyi's poems are quite representative. After the Late Tang Dynasty, the poems and writings of the greenhouses had more life atmosphere, and there were quite a few works of pornography, for example, Zhang Juyi's "Touring the Immortal Grottoes". |For example, the poem "The Grotto of the Immortals" by Zhang? In the Song Dynasty, the relationship between Song lyrics and greenhouses was even closer than that between Tang poetry and greenhouses. Compared with poems, lyrics were more realistic and detailed in writing the subtle and twisted psychological emotions of the prostitutes and their customers. In the Yuan Dynasty, the status of literati was on a par with that of prostitutes, so the poetic works of the greenhouses showed two tendencies: one was to write about the greenhouses as a place of lechery and debauchery, so as to soothe or give vent to one's own imbalance; the other one was to reflect the dark side of the greenhouses, to write about the misfortunes of the prostitutes and the resistance, from which one could put one's own life ambition, for example, some of Guan Hanqing's works. In the Ming Dynasty, many ugly scenes appeared in the greenhouses, and the breath of the commodity economy poured into the greenhouses, and there appeared the images of those scums, such as those in the "Plum in the Golden Vase". By the Qing Dynasty, a large number of apophatic notes and novels appeared, and the greenhouses were talked about and flirted with as if they were commonplace meals. With the decline of the green house, the dreamlike art of the green house also died. Despite all the pains and sins hidden in the greenhouses, apathetic customers still came in droves. In addition to carnal desire and sound and color, they also hope to find true feelings here, and even find love. Literature depicts a lot of love between life and death in the greenhouses, such as Jiang Fang's Huo Xiaoyu biography, and the Waking up to the World's Constant Remarks, in which the oil seller monopolizes the flower girl. This kind of affection is not usually found in the home. In ancient Chinese families, wives and concubines were slaves to men, and it was difficult to generate true love between unequal men and women. And the green house just compensated for the emotional function that the family lacked. In the green house, men and women do not bear the responsibility of ethics and morality, there is no high and low concerns, not chastity and integrity of the boundaries, although there is a money factor makes people resent, but compared to the family in the master-slave submissive relationship, after all, let a person feel more free, more equal, more able to play and embodiment of the individual's own charisma and value. So the existence of the green house, not only did not destroy the family, but greatly promote the family to maintain stability, to promote social stability. Qinglou and family, not only do not offend, and just coupled for a complete sexual culture system, to ensure the long-term steady development of ancient Chinese society. Although most of the dynasties have banned prostitution, prohibit Ap decree, measures, but the greenhouse industry is a wildfire, spring breeze blowing again, the key lies in the greenhouse is an indispensable subsystem of that society. Some johns pack their prostitutes for a long time, and some of them even marry their prostitutes back home. However, when prostitutes become concubines, they are under great psychological pressure and their feelings are easily dislocated, and they often have to put in greater hardships than ordinary women. In this regard the model for people to praise is the Ming Dynasty's famous prostitute Dong Xiaowan married Bao Paijian thing, this is a scholar and prostitute in love with the typical. In the beginning, the prostitutes of the green houses appeared as art workers, and their main object of service was to serve as the basic force and source of talent for the ruling class, the cabs. Scholar generally has more than medium economic strength, but prostitutes like to socialize with the scholar, not because of its economic strength, but because the scholar compared to other classes of people to be suave, not only can be very insider appreciation of the prostitute's color and art, and their own color and art also in turn to make prostitutes produce aesthetic pleasure. This is since ancient times, the talented man must be matched with a beautiful woman. In addition, socializing with scholars improves one's status and weakens one's sense of inferiority, and scholars' poems and gifts can become one's own advertisements. From the side of the scholar, poems can be sung by prostitutes, naturally also spread far and wide. It can be seen that the scholar and the prostitute have mutual needs, appreciate each other and rely on each other. Outside of utilitarian purposes, there is also true friendship and love between the scholar and the prostitute, mutual understanding, mutual sympathy, mutual respect, and find solace in each other's lives. Scholar and prostitute, can be called a pair of traditional Chinese culture, they **** with the creation of a brilliant Chinese classical literature and art, leaving behind countless beautiful and touching stories. The era of the closest relationship between the scholar and the prostitute is also the era of the Chinese nation's strongest and most prosperous. In the Tang Dynasty, the famous prostitutes Xue Tao and Yu Xuanji were both famous poets at the same time, and they interacted with the first-class scholars of the time. When Zhao Ji, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, went to visit the famous prostitute Li Shishi, he did so as a scholar of the time, but he still lost to Zhou Bangyan, a great lyricist. The prostitutes who made history did not rely on their mere beauty, but on their artistic talents and their interactions with important scholars, such as Dong Xiaowan, Liu Ruyi and Li Xiangjun at the end of the Ming Dynasty, who not only built up a chaste love with the scholars they adored, but also demonstrated their righteousness and moral integrity at the time of the nation's peril. This should be the most eye-catching flash point of the greenhouse culture. Ancient Chinese prostitutes in the greenhouses because of their own superior talent and artistic interests and gained a deeper experience of life than ordinary women and higher spiritual enjoyment, but also gained the respect of public opinion and praise. This is completely different from the situation of prostitutes today. However, the fate of prostitutes was not ideal. Generally, they went to the palace, became nuns, worked as bawdesses, or changed their profession and became widowed. There are many obstacles, one is the pimp will not let go, the second is very difficult to find a real favorite man, the third is from the good can not be adapted to or can not tolerate, many prostitutes from the good and then repeated. In the final analysis, the green house is a place where sex and love are separated, and this nature makes it impossible for most prostitutes to get a happy ending. The greatest tragedy of the green house also lies in the fact that prostitutes are first and foremost drained of human dignity and excluded from the concept of normal human beings, which determines that the dream of prostitutes is doomed to destruction on the whole. The emergence of the green house is a historical necessity. Although it is an important symbol of male society, it has made an indelible contribution to the development and prosperity of ancient Chinese society. The green house was the most important social entertainment place in ancient times. The dignitaries, scribes and merchants, all to the green house as a distribution center, the major ceremonial activities also have more than the green house personnel to the scene. Qinglou rules, etiquette and up to the palace, down to the underworld are inextricably linked, the culture of the Qinglou can be said to be a mixture of Chinese culture of all classes. The green house is also the most important place of consumption in ancient times, it not only consumes a huge amount of its own, but also guides the consumption trend of the whole society, which directly stimulates the development of commodity economy. Qinglou is also the home of culture and art, aside from the Qinglou, it is impossible to thoroughly understand Chinese art, Chinese literature. On the other hand, the existence of the green house, though contributing to the stability of the family, exacerbated the inequality between men and women. There was a great deal of waste in the way it was consumed. The long history of the greenhouses has accustomed the Chinese to divide women into two simple categories, the virtuous wives and mothers, and the lecherous wives and sluts. This makes both men and women unable to view women correctly, and also makes it easy to misunderstand the issue of women's liberation. The similarity between the fate and status of prostitutes and scholars also made Chinese intellectuals like to hurt themselves and feel sorry for themselves, and often took the greenhouses as a hideout to escape from reality. Qinglou's generation and the merits and sins of the entire ancient Chinese society with the breath, **** fate, so when the ancient Chinese society towards the decline, the decline and destruction of the Qinglou is also a historical inevitability. Brothel is also known as brothel, whore house, obscene cave, that is, to provide erotic services of commercial premises, brothels in business hours often have one or more sex workers. The action of a sex worker in a brothel to serve a client and get money for it is called prostitution. People who patronize brothels and pay money in exchange for sexual services are called johns, pimps, or fangirls, which is a more genteel term. A person who frequents a particular brothel or a particular sex worker is called a regular or repeat customer. As with any purchase or sale of goods, some customers like to pick and choose, constantly changing styles, and the act of picking out a sex worker in a brothel is commonly referred to as 'seeking flowers and willow'. In ancient China, there were brothels that provided prostitutes, also known as kilns, greenhouses, kangkang (meaning women were forced to become prostitutes), yunjiban and so on. In the old Jiangnan, people commonly called the area where the brothels were concentrated as the smoky flower alley or the flower and willow alley (today known as the 'red-light district'), and the people in old Beijing called it the 'eight big hutongs'. The old Beijingers called it 'Eight Hutongs'. In ancient times, there were many kinds of prostitutes, some of which did not necessarily provide sexual services, and some of which were geishas or courtesans who sold their art but not their bodies. Since the ancient brothels were also performance venues, the hookers and the teaching houses, which were originally performance venues, were also

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