There is a story about a prostitute falling in love with a poor scholar, but no one loves the rich man?

In ancient novels or various folk art talks, there are many popular stories about prostitutes falling in love with poor scholars.

So here people have a kind of doubt. It is obvious that the young masters of wealthy families are richer and have a higher social status. Why does a promiscuous woman fall in love with a poor scholar instead of a rich man?

Some people may say that this is because the prostitute wants to find someone who can be trusted to be a good person. Those rich boys are just playing for fun and don't mean it sincerely. So you won't get any good results from them.

However, there are many cases where poor scholars do not get good results. If those poor scholars remain in poverty, the combination of a prostitute and a poor scholar can only turn into a rough village woman. If a poor scholar becomes prosperous and abandons a prostitute, it must be a high probability event. Generally, when a poor boy becomes rich, he will even abandon his wife who is a loser. Will he still care about a promiscuous woman?

In fact, in ancient society, it was more often the young men from wealthy families who married promiscuous women. Although they did marry back, most of them were as concubines. However, promiscuous women have food, clothing, and a stable life, and are generally not abandoned. After all, she is a concubine, and there is no need to abandon her.

But why, in those ancient stories, are they always written about a prostitute falling in love with a poor scholar?

I think that to understand this problem, we must first find out who wrote such a story.

There is no doubt that such stories are written by poor scholars. At the same time, most of these stories are fictional and not true.

So why would a poor scholar make up such a story? What kind of psychology do they have?

First, the desire to be recognized. After ten years of being cold and no one asked, he became famous all over the world in one fell swoop. ?This sentence is generally used to describe poor scholars. But in fact, this sentence needs to be said separately. It is indeed true that "no one asks about it after ten years of hard work", but "becoming famous all over the world in one fell swoop" may not be achievable.

The reason is that when ancient scholars took the imperial examination, their chances of success were really very small. Most scholars either have lived in poverty for ten years and no one cares about them, or they have lived in poverty all their lives and have no one to care about them. In the end, they become truly poor scholars.

After becoming a poor scholar, he could not lift his hands, carry his shoulders, or do farm work. Even if they could pick things up, they wouldn't want to do farm work. In most cases, they can only teach in private schools belonging to wealthy families. Watching those wealthy men marrying promiscuous beauties home one after another.

In their minds, they feel that these beauties should not follow these rich men, but should follow themselves, but the men are rich and powerful.

However, this is just the imagination of a poor scholar.

I have seen a joke about a poor scholar who went to teach in a rich family. The rich man asked him how he would arrange his life. He wrote a paragraph: No chicken, duck, fish, or vegetables and tofu are indispensable. Wages are also indispensable. ?Because there was no sentence reading in ancient times, so when the master served food to the poor scholar, he only served tofu and vegetables, without meat, because it was written in the contract.

Look, even if a poor scholar goes to teach, he will still be plotted by a rich man. Who will recognize them? What dignity do they have?

So, when a poor scholar writes that he is in love with a promiscuous woman, he actually wants to express his wish that he is a piece of jade, only temporarily trapped in the mortal world, and one day he will be prosperous.

Second, desire for status.

There were many brothels in ancient times. However, the people who can really go to brothels to spend money are the rich and powerful young men. Ordinary poor scholars do not have the money or the courage to spend money in such a place.

Poor scholars write that they will fall in love with brothel girls, which is actually an artificial elevation of their own status. Their logic is that the reason why prostitutes receive wealthy young men is because they are rich and powerful. They are like this because they are forced by the powerful. But deep down in their hearts, they love those poor scholars who are very poor but full of knowledge. This kind of poor scholar is not only knowledgeable, but also a person of noble character.

In this way, the poor scholars are much better than the wealthy young masters in terms of conduct and morals, and they also completely defeat the wealthy young masters spiritually.

However, it is impossible for a poor scholar to have money to visit a brothel, so how can he have contact with a prostitute? The so-called "complete victory" is just a conjecture.