When you watch costume dramas, I don't know if you are curious about those sons who spend a lot of money, and often give all the money to the proprietress in a green building, and this boss lady will be collectively called "old bustard", and then the women in the green building will call the boss lady a bustard mother.
At first glance, it is easy to think of an animal, that is, a flying bird - the bustard, so why did people in ancient times call the proprietress "old bustard"? What is the connection between the women in the green building and the bustards?
First of all, let's take a look at the record of the "bustard", the ancient "Book of Songs" has mentioned the bustard many times, one of which has this description: "Su Su bustard, gathered in the bud mulberry", which is to describe the bustard's usual flight and the characteristics of foraging in life.
According to their shallow observation of bustards at that time, they found that this bird was a bit "fornicatory", and could be with any bird, believing that it was the "wife of a flock" of male birds.
This is precisely the reason why the ancients could not distinguish between the female bustard and the male bustard, this bird is larger than the wild goose, its feet are three toes, and other birds have three toes and then turn around and there are them, this bustard it only has three toes, it does not fly very flexibly, but it runs very fast, good at running.
When the bustard is resting and free, even if it is a peacock, it can go to mate, and all species of birds, bustards can actively go with their mates.
In fact, the individual difference between male and female is very large, the female bird is much smaller than the male bird, and it is also two completely different birds from the appearance and feathers, so the ancients mistakenly thought that the bustard bird is not a good bird, and can reproduce with any bird that is completely different from itself.
Therefore, people use bustards to refer to the prostitutes who are as good as they can, and the bustards are associated with prostitutes, which is from the Ming Dynasty Song Quan's "Mr. Danqiu's Treatise": "The old man of the prostitutes is called the bustard, the bustard is like a goose and big, no hind toe, tiger stripes, likes to be obscene and insatiable, and the birds ask for it."
In the eyes of the ancients, they likened the bustard to a prostitute in a green house, and compared the proprietress who managed the women to the "old bustard", whose main task was to be a manager responsible for connecting the prostitutes and their clients.
Her role is: on the one hand, to recommend prostitutes to her clients; on the other hand, managing and educating prostitutes; The last is to coordinate the relationship between all aspects, the goal of the bustard's existence is very clear, everything is based on the premise of making money.
As long as there are interested customers, no matter what morality, morality, social conscience and other factors, as long as the prostitute takes money to spend, the bustard is like a bustard bird who comes and does not refuse, so in ancient times the bustard is a derogatory term, describing a person's mercenary image, no conscience of the vicious female image.
And the bustard mainly exists in the ancient Qinglou, so what kind of place is the ancient Qinglou? What are the similarities between bustards and bustards?
Ancient China has thousands of years of feudal rule, Chinese civilization has always admired the Confucian concept of governing the world, although our ancient times have always paid attention to the Confucian concept of etiquette, righteousness and shame, but the corrosion of human nature of the green building industry has also been coexisting.
The origin of Chinese Qinglou originated in the Qi period, and the modern historian Huang Xianfan's "Outline of Tang Dynasty Society" wrote that "the origin of Chinese prostitutes was probably embryonic in the era of King Xiang of Zhou.
It can be seen from this poem that the earliest advocate of the Qinglou industry was Guan Zhong, the doctor of Qi State, Guan Zhong during the reign of Qi State, in order to let the business of Qi develop rapidly, through the means of "currency accumulation", so that businessmen made a lot of money in Qi State.
In order to retain these businessmen, and in order to collect flower donations, Qi began to set up a special Nulu, that is, a government-run business institution Qinglou, not only that, Guan Zhong also established a school palace in Qi State, so that people who studied at that time also often visited the "Nulu", so as to successfully retain the world's talents and businessmen.
At the same time, the ** of Qi State also set up a "female lu" to collect taxes, so that the treasury of Qi State has a lot of income, which can be described as a "killing three birds with one stone" method of making money.
Seeing this, we can clearly see that the "Nulu" at that time can be said to have made great contributions and sacrifices to the economy of Qi.
Since the establishment of the "Nulu" had a particularly good effect on stabilizing the country and increasing the treasury economy, neighboring countries began to learn from this practice of Guan Zhong, and the vassal states began to gradually spread it.
During the Tang Dynasty, brothels can be said to have reached their peak, one of the most open societies and the most diverse customs, but the seemingly flowery green buildings hide women's confinement and plight.
Most of the women in the Qinglou are from poor backgrounds, some of them have been abducted and sold by human traffickers, some have been captured in the war, and some have even been trafficked here from poor families.
No matter how they came here in the first place, their lives in the Qinglou were destined to serve men, unable to choose their own free life, and they were regarded as a symbol of moral degradation and were labeled as disgraceful.
In ancient times, the proprietress in charge of the women in the Qinglou was called "Lao Bustard", and as the manager of the Qinglou, they had the control to manage the daily affairs, customer arrangements and income distribution in the Qinglou.
In order to increase greater profits, the old bustard will unscrupulously let the women serve the guests without picking guests, which reflects the origin of the name of the ancient Qinglou "old bustard", which is derived from the conjecture of the bustard.
As mentioned above, bustards are just birds, as long as they want to mate with female bustards, they will choose to obey, and this lewd attribute is placed on the old bustard and the girl in the green building.
The ancients believed that the women and bustards in the Qinglou were exactly the same as the spore birds in the survival of mates, they were all comers, and could serve all kinds of people, so the real bustards were really as the ancient people thought? Is it a promiscuous bird?
With the slow development of society, our lives are becoming more and more technological, and our observation of animals has become very scientific and rigorous.
According to the research of animal experts, the bustard, as a large bird, has a huge size, and the bustard is also a first-class protected animal in China.
When the male bird is courting, he will show the white feathers on his chest, stand the feathers on his neck and wings straight one by one, and then his tail and make a hoarse call to attract the female, and he looks very beautiful.
The male will deliberately show his hips to indicate to the female that he has been cleared of parasites in his body as a sign of health, and the female will also choose according to how clean the male bird is.
While being chased by a male, the female will actively approach the male bustard, and when they have mated, they will live separately.
The female will hatch in the nest alone, and the male will not be with the female, which is why the ancient people misunderstood the bustard bird as the "wife of all birds".
The ancients associated the courtship behavior of the bustard with the best thing, so it was nicknamed "lewd bird" by the ancients, so that the bustard was forever bound to the ancient Qinglou, which is because the ancient people only looked at the appearance and did not really study the bustard.
Today, we live in a modern scientific society, and we have gradually unraveled the misunderstanding of the bustard, and the number of bustards in our country is gradually decreasing.
Due to the large size of the bustard, not good at flying, like to run, and the spore bird meat is very delicious, which also creates people to kill and hunt it constantly, there are only more than 200 bustards in our country at present, which shows the scarcity of bustards.
Bustards like to eat some small fish, insects, locusts and other pests, it can be said that it is a bird that does not have any aggression against humans, among which Hungary has designated the bustard as the national bird, which shows how much people like and cherish the bustard.
In ancient times, the business activities of the Qinglou were always very active, and the proprietress of the Qinglou usually appeared frequently with a mercenary and ruthless image, and this kind of disgraceful industry that was hated by many people was hooked with the bustard flying in the sky.
Because of the large difference in size between male and female bustards, people mistakenly believe that females are always mating with other birds, and the ancient society derogated prostitutes and called brothel operators, bustards themselves do not have the characteristics of "lewdness" as the ancients believed, but have been misunderstood and stigmatized.
Historically, female workers in Qinglou have faced confinement and dilemma, shackled by social prejudice and oppression, and their choices have been labeled as moral and marginalized by society.
However, with the progress of society and the change of values, we should recognize that everyone has the right to autonomy and equal dignity, and in today's modern society, every woman is given the fairness and respect she deserves, and we are proud of the social life we have now.
China's ancient culture has a long history, in the development of society, in different eras, with the deepening of everyone's cognition and the increase of knowledge, there will naturally be different understandings of some cultures and Chinese characters.
It's just that up to now, some Chinese characters have been solidified by people after hundreds of years of cultural precipitation, but it can also be seen from here that in the continuous development of culture, everything is going in the best direction.
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