Introduce the information of Sai Jinhua, a famous prostitute in Qing Dynasty.

Among many famous prostitutes in the late Qing Dynasty, Sai Jinhua should be the most legendary one. In addition to "Evil Sea Flower", which is listed as one of the "four condemned novels in the late Qing Dynasty", there are many notes and novels about her story.

According to the relevant historical data, the historical experience of Sai Jinhua is as follows:

Its first name was Fu Yulian, also known as Caiyun, who was born in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province (said to be an Anhui native) in about 1872.

When she was a child, she was sold to the so-called "flower boat" in Suzhou as a prostitute. In 1887 (Guangxu 13th year), it happened that Hong Jun, the top scholar of the previous record, returned to her hometown to observe her filial piety and fell in love with Caiyun at first sight. My concubine, Hong Shi was 48 years old and Fu Caiyun was only 15 years old.

Soon, Hong Jun was appointed as the envoy to Russia, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. His original wife was afraid of foreign customs, so she gave Caiyun an imperial dress and asked her to accompany Hong Jun to go abroad.

in the early 199s, he returned to China with Hong Jun, and soon Hong died of illness.

In 1894, Fu Caiyun fled to Shanghai as a prostitute on her way back to Suzhou to send Hong's coffin south, and changed her name to Cao Menglan.

Later, I went to Tianjin and changed my name to "Sai Jinhua".

When Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing in 19, she lived as a prostitute in Shitou Hutong, Beijing. She had contact with some German officers and changed her men's clothes to visit Xiyuan (now * * *), a royal garden.

In 193, he was imprisoned for abusing a young prostitute to death in Beijing, returned to Suzhou, released from prison and then went to Shanghai.

He lived in poverty in his later years and died in Beijing in 1936.

Judging from some existing old photos today, Sai Jinhua herself is not stunning, but only because of her unusual experience, she has become the hero of a series of legendary stories.

Being able to marry the No.1 scholar is first of all an unusual encounter of a prostitute, which leads to another legend that was quite popular at that time.

It is said that Hong Jun was once sponsored by a * * * before he won the top prize, and this * * * is called Xiaoqing in some works.

Like all the heroines and heroines in the story of "the beauty rescued the son in distress", Hong Jun and Xiaoqing made an agreement of old age, but they also did not run out of the routine of this kind of story: Hong Jun, who won the top prize, felt that marrying a prostitute was detrimental to his dignity, so he abandoned the former alliance.

Xiaoqing, who didn't know the inside story, was immersed in the joy of being called "the top lady" at first, and hanged herself angrily after learning the truth.

Therefore, in "Evil Flowers", Fu Caiyun, the "No.1 in the flower list" when she appeared, had a circle of natural red silk around her neck, which was enough to make the hero Jin Wenqing (Hong Jun's word Wen Qing, which was obviously alluded to here) understand that she was Xiaoqing's back, so she felt the sense of reunion from another world.

Because of this unfinished past karma, many works attribute Hong Jun's death to Xiaoqing's revenge on him: Caiyun later liaised with his young servant and played with the actor, which eventually made Hong Jun angry.

Even after Caiyun's indissoluble bond with the actor Sun Xiaosan, there are rumors that because Sun Xiaosan's predecessor had wronged Xiaoqing in that previous marriage, Caiyun was rewarded in this life.

However, Ceng Pu's "Evil Sea Flower" is not satisfied with the above simple story of karma. The novel has processed Caiyun's personality in a more detailed way, making it easier for people to believe that this top scholar's wife is extraordinary.

During her time as the "Minister's Wife", Caiyun not only learned European quickly, but also caused a sensation everywhere in her beauty and intelligence. Even the German Queen took a group photo with her as a souvenir. In contrast, Jin Feiqing, the envoy of the Great Qing Dynasty, was pedantic and incompetent everywhere, and even asked to save his wife in times of crisis.

Fu Caiyun's frankness and boldness in a confession that Jin Wenqing asked to leave the Kim family after his death are also commendable:

"Why don't I want to fight for my master and make a good name?" However, I am born with this bad temper of being lively and having fun, and I can't make decisions by myself when things come to the fore.

..... If you insist on leaving me here, I'm bound to make a bad joke, and I'll be even more sorry for my master when it comes to that! Moreover, I am used to being a loose hand, and I haven't learned the truth of being a family since I was a child ... My rich hand can't shrink back for a while, and I'm afraid that this dead industry left by my master can't supply my extravagance, so I thought thoroughly that instead of fooling around with a fake cover, I would end up hurting my master and harming my children. It's better to be straightforward, let me go, anyway, and I won't do anything named Jin. At most, I'm alone.

In fact, if Fu Caiyun is willing to keep a festival for Hong Jun after his death, instead of going to the next class to get back to his old job, the reputation of "the top lady" cannot be used as a famous capital.

In the era of Sai Jinhua, it is better to be a virtuous woman like Dong Xiaowan, a famous prostitute in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the late Qing Dynasty, many * * * people often got rid of their debts by getting married because they were too profligate and in debt. Within three or five months to a year, they tried their best to leave their husbands' homes and regain their zhangyan identity, which was called "bubble bath".

Although Sai Jinhua was not exempt from customs, it was only after Hong Jun's death that she clearly went underground to beg, which was a kind of aboveboard.

Therefore, in Yan Gu's "Continued Evil Flowers", Sai Jinhua fled to Shanghai on the way to send the spirit back to the south in history, which was described as an act of acquiescence by Hong Jun's original wife, because it would not hurt each other.

Back in Shanghai, Sai Jinhua was listed to receive guests, and it really worked well and gained great fame.

Wu Jianren, a famous novelist in the late Qing Dynasty (the author of The Strange Situation Seen in Twenty Years), listed her as one of the "last two monsters" among famous prostitutes at sea because of her legendary experience.

Another author deliberately expelled one of the former famous prostitutes "Four donkey kong" from the sea, and listed this "First Lady"? The first of "King Kong".

in Beijing, she is called because she likes to wear men's clothes? "Master Sai".

But it was the Gengzi Incident that made Sai Jinhua famous again.

According to legend, after Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, Sai Jinhua was favored by westerners because of her knowledge of European. When she was in the West, she met the commander-in-chief of the allied forces, Wa Dexi. This time, the old love revived and she was very close. Thanks to this special relationship, Sai Jinhua once advised Wa Dexi not to disturb the people, and the success of the negotiation was also due to her. Therefore, the people in Beijing were grateful to her and called her "the second master of the negotiation."

This kind of legend is also the most controversial place in the story of Sai Jinhua.

Historically, Wadesi, who was born in 1832, was 68 years old. It seems unlikely that he had any affair with Sai Jinhua.

However, among the many prostitutes who depend on the door in Beijing, mastering European can really make Sai Jinhua stand out and provide convenience for "winning the favor of the country".

As to whether Sai Jinhua played a role in the peace treaty between Xin and Chou, it can be said that there is no evidence in history, but folk narration is another matter.

In the records of most people at that time, Sai Jinhua, who paraded around the city with Europeans by car, at least didn't arouse the antipathy of ordinary people, but "Mr Sai, the Minister of Peace" was well-known in nine cities.

Legends may not have the authenticity of details, but they do not rule out certain rationality.

This hard-to-fathom case provides enough imagination for novelists. Another novel "The Nine-tailed Turtle" in the late Qing Dynasty tells this story like this: Sai Jinhua went to the Forbidden City to catch up with Wa Dexi, and saw that the sacred royal palace in the eyes of Chinese people was occupied by the allied forces beyond recognition, and his instinctive patriotism was aroused: "Although I am a * * *, I am actually from China. When I meet a place that can help China, I naturally have to help."

Because Hua Desheng (alluding to Wa Dexi) asked her to be a translator, Sai Jinhua used this to persuade Hua Desheng not to mistreat China people and release the detained China officials.

What is even more commendable is that she used her charming means to help China's Minister of Peace, Hong Zhongtang (alluding to Li Hongzhang), persuade Hua Desheng to sign the peace treaty.

For this achievement, the average literati likes to chew over words when praising it. What "He talked and laughed in the hail of bullets, persuaded the enemy to be handsome, bossed him around, and spent his honeymoon with a swallow, because he was a golden bell, that is, a noble prince, and he also relied on a bright staff"? A more natural imagination is probably more in line with the identity of the protagonist. We can imagine that Sai Jinhua is playing a tactful role. Just for everyone to see, it is not useless to know that we have a good meal. Others always say that there are no good people in the hall, but it is not necessarily true.

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When the peace talks were concluded, the allied troops withdrew, and the two palaces returned to mourn, there was naturally no golden flower.

on the contrary, although the reputation of "Mr. Sai, the Minister of Peace-making" has increased a lot, he is still doing a life of leaning against the door to sell jokes.

As for the subsequent death of prostitutes, Sai Jinhua was not without responsibility, but it seems that there was something else. For example, Wu Jianren thought that she was sent back to her original place because of ostentation.

the word "ostentatious" seems to have a profound meaning. In troubled times, the identity of a dusty woman has fluctuated greatly, and the huge contrast can easily reflect the coldness of the world.

Therefore, The Nine-tailed Turtle boldly fictionalized a despicable Bubulang, and Sai Jinhua offended him because he didn't like his appearance as a philistine. Later, he made a fuss about the abuse of prostitutes to get revenge, and Sai Jinhua was finally forced to return to the south.

After that, Sai Jinhua regained her zhangyan status, but Qiu Niang was old and the legendary story left her.

However, a lowly man in the dusty world has met with the historical situation twice in his life. Although it is a meteor flash, it is enough to arouse the yearning and cold sigh of the world. Therefore, people at that time once predicted:

"According to his chivalrous and strange feelings, he is not only smaller than Su Xiao and Xue Tao in ancient times, but also different from those who only spread songs and dances as anecdotes in the same year, that is, he is better than those who are left behind."