In the feudal history of our country for more than 2,000 years,The most oppressed and brutalized by feudal etiquette and religion is women. The social status of women is extremely low.
In most cases, the women of the family were sometimes even bought and sold as commodities, and this phenomenon was not new in those days.
Under the destruction of the feudal ideology of male superiority and inferiority of women for a long time, women's minds gradually subordinated to this life. The birth of the Qinglou has further lowered the social status of women.
And in ancient times, the dignitaries were not satisfied with ordinary Qinglou womenTo satisfy their particular fetishes, a special profession of prostitute was born, and that was the blind prostitute.
So,What is a blind prostitute?Why did it become popular in the society at that time?
We now generally believe thatThe first brothel in our country was opened by Guan Zhong, the prime minister of the Spring and Autumn Period of Qi Huan, for the development of the economy, but at that time it was not called a brothel, but a female lu.
With the continuous improvement of the feudal system, the social status of women was constantly degraded, and most of the daughters of those poor families were sold to rich families as handmaidens or sold to Qinglou.
Far from being stopped, the prostitution industry is growing. However, with the development of the Qinglou industry to a bottleneck period,As a result, a single service of talent gradually failed to satisfy the special habits of the nobles and nobles, which were becoming more and more distorted
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, many literati and artists also liked to go in and out of Fireworks Willow Lane. This is because the woman in the Qinglou is notHe has only received good etiquette training, and most of the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are also relatively proficient.
Therefore, it can not only meet the physical needs, but also have a better enjoyment mentally. Blind prostitutes satisfy the curiosity of dignitaries and scholars.
Blind prostitutes were born in the Fengyue place on the banks of the Qinhuai River in the Ming Dynasty, and as soon as they appeared, they were widely loved by those nobles and literati.
Blind prostitute, as the name suggests,It's the women who are blind and engaged in fireworks and willow lane. But these blind prostitutes are both people who are born with eye disabilities and women who are born with disabilities.
Perhaps the first group of blind prostitutes did fall into the dust because they were unable to make a living due to their eye disabilities, but the blind prostitutes gradually became sought after by the world.
Since only a very small number of blind people are willing to live in Fireworks Willow Lane, most of the green buildings cannot meet the huge market demand, in order to cater to the ** psychology of those high-ranking officials and noblesThe bustards began to create "blind prostitutes".
That's where someone askedHow can a blind prostitute be made if she is a living person, not a machine in a factory?
It turns out that in order to obtain high returns, those profit-oriented bustards blinded those already miserable prostitutes and acted as the "playthings" of those who were **.
The specific process is in our countryThere is a relevant record in the "Chronicles of Chinese Ethnic Customs": "Buy a beautiful and graceful daughter, teach them to sing and dance, train them to socialize, and when they are fourteen or fifteen years old, the turtle bustard will poison their hands and destroy their eyes."
It means that young girls with good faces are selected very early, and they are taught piano, chess, calligraphy and painting from an early age, and they are taught the skills of receiving customers.
Wait until long.
Ten. When he was four or five years old, he was blinded by some vicious means. After being blinded, they became blind prostitutes sought after by those high-ranking officials and nobles.
So why do these dignitaries like blind prostitutes?The reason is actually quite simple.
Even if it was a prostitute at the time,Although the social status is not high, he is actually very arrogant in his heart, they often look down on those dignitaries and literati, especially those famous prostitutes.
For example, Li Shishi, a famous prostitute in Bianjing in "Water Margin", is not only the object of competition among literati and scholars, princes and grandchildrenEven Song Huizong, who is the supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, wanted to kiss Fang Ze after hearing her name.
This makes those low-quality local tyrants and fake literati have no desire to pursue these normal prostitutesAnd it made his heart even more distorted, and he turned his magic hand to the blind prostitute.
This is because the biggest feature of a blind prostitute is that they can't see, so they don't care about the guests they are receivingWhether it's ugly or handsome, they don't know.
And because of the training they have received since childhood, they will only be more intimate and will not resist when servingThis gives comfort to the hearts of those local tyrants and poor literati who have run into a wall on the side of normal prostitutes.
And in addition, most of those local tyrants are the children of local officials or the stubborn children of wealthy families. They are often uneducated and despised by others.
But with blind prostitutes, they will not be despised and denied by othersIn this way, the vanity and desire for conquest that are bred by their inner inferiority complex are greatly satisfied.
In the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing" said".The younger brother went to join the army and the aunt died, and the twilight went to the past. In front of the door, Kurama was snubbed, and the eldest married a businesswoman. “
Even the pipa girl who "taught good people to wear clothes and made up to be jealous of Qiu Niang" back thenAfter old age and decay, it is difficult to escape the embarrassing end, let alone the blind prostitute?
Everyone thinks that blind prostitutes make a lot of money, and they should have something to rely on when they are old. But in fact, most of the remuneration they get for their work goes into the pockets of the bustards, even if they have little left.
Therefore, after the blind prostitutes were old and decrepit, most of them were kicked out of the green building. They have no foundation for survival, they are spurned by the world, and most of them live on the streets.
Even Qin Huai Bayan, who was famous all over the world, ended up very tragicallyIt can be seen that these blind prostitutes at the bottom of the feudal society have a tragic fate as a joke in their lives.
Because the feudal society, which was described by Lu Xun as "cannibalism", benefited those ruling classes, so that the rule from the Ming Dynasty to the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty lasted for hundreds of years.
Finally, after the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, with the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the feudal system also stepped down from the altar.
When the last emperor issued the edict of abdication, it not only marked that the feudal imperial system of more than 2,000 years had entered history, but also became history together with the cannibalistic feudal rituals.
And this blind prostitute, which was bred by the psychology of high-ranking officials and nobles, was immediately abandoned by new ideas.
The concept of equality between men and women that we are now pursuing was bought by thousands of women in China who have been oppressed by feudal etiquette and religion for thousands of years with their youth and livesThe deformed ideology and concepts must create a deformed society, so the products of feudal society such as blind prostitutes will inevitably be abandoned by history.