The origin of prostitution in China, why not help prostitution in ancient times?

The origin of prostitutes in China is 1? One theory is that in the time of yaoyu and Yu Xia, about 2 100 BC. "Shang Shu Yu Xia Shu Yi Ji" has such a record: Yao's son, playing games all day, doing nothing, regardless of night, "friends are at home." "Companionship" means "group sex". So, what kind of woman can stay up late and have sex with people outside? Obviously a prostitute, no doubt. Accordingly, prostitutes in China should have existed since Yao.

It was in Xia Jie, about 1600 BC. Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty said in Biography of Lienv: "Xia Jie abandoned the ceremony and forgot the righteousness, and committed adultery with women. Seek the beauty of the quartet to accumulate in the queen's palace and make a romantic record. Xia Jie was the last monarch in Xia Dynasty and the most dissolute and cruel monarch, but he was not the only one. Corruption and fornication in the Xia Dynasty began in the third generation, and "losing the country because of Taikang" was caused by "entertaining oneself." "The Summer Rebellion in Confucius" is also due to "debauchery, debauchery and morality". It goes without saying that it is natural for monarchs, courtiers and sex trade to rise at this time.

One is Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period around 680 BC. "The Warring States Policy and the Eastern Zhou Policy" records that "there are seven cities in Qi Huangong Palace, with 700 women, but no one in China. Guan Zhong returned to his home three times, so as to cover the Duke of Huan and not harm the people! " Qi Huangong and Guan Zhong married for the purpose of "enriching the country". The Analects of Confucius also records that "Qi people belong to women's music, Ji follows it, and Confucius does not go to court for three days." The Chu people in the Qing Dynasty said in the Selected Works of Sword: "In order to manage the state of Qi, buy 700 women and levy the night wedding money for the use of the country. This is the beginning of pollen money. " This is the beginning of a state-run brothel for the purpose of national profit. Obviously, Guan Zhong saw the existence of such a sex market as men who take pleasure in prostitution and women who take prostitution as their profession, and then he came up with the idea of "state-run brothels". This era also produced "prostitutes", and "Wu Yue Chun Qiu" said: "Gou Jian, the king of Yue, lost his widow in the mountains, so that those who are worried about people can swim here for entertainment." In order to stabilize the army, the King of Yue set up a "prostitute camp" to provide sexual services for soldiers in front. Year after year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who launched the war of border expansion and spread his martial arts to later generations, also established a prostitute system, in which prostitutes were embedded in the army to stabilize his own army. It is recorded in "The Origin of Everything": "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to set up prostitutes to treat the sergeant's wife." China people had military prostitutes more than 2,600 years ago, which is probably the largest in the world.

A Qing poet Yuan Mei said another thing about the origin of prostitutes in the sixth volume of Poems with the Garden. Now the original text is copied as follows for textual research.

Someone asked, "When did prostitutes start?" Yu Yun: "For three generations, people have been well fed and highly educated. How can there be prostitutes? " ? Only in the Spring and Autumn Period did Wei let women drink Nangong wine and tied them drunk. This woman should be the origin of prostitutes. Otherwise, how can a good woman drink with others? If Guan Zhong's daughter is three hundred; The king of Yue asked the woman to mend the scholar, but it was not. "Dai Jingxian entered Jinshi, passed by Handan, and saw the inscription on the wall of the shop:" Demon Ji said since ancient times that she had a glass of pipa wine. If you really covered the wild in Janssen, would you do more to expose the wild? "

The above-mentioned "Wei made women drink Nangong wine" can be found in Zuo Zhuan's twelve years of Zhuanggong. Nangong Changwan, namely Song Wan, also known as Nangong Wan Wan, was a doctor in the Song Dynasty who served Song Mingong heroically. In the Battle of Song and Lu, Duke Zhuang of Lu wounded and captured Nangong Bay with an arrow. Song Qiulu released Nangong Wan with cynicism, and Nangong Wan held a grudge. After returning home, in the autumn of the twelfth year of Wan Yu in Nangong (682 BC), he killed Song Min Gong and several ministers and made Song Zi a monarch. Later, the sons who fled joined forces and, with the support of Cao's army, defeated Ziyou, and Nangong Wan fled to Chen. Song Xiangxing bribed and demanded the extradition of Nangong Wan. Chen Ren used a woman to accompany Nangong Wan to drink, tied him up and gave him to Song, who killed him.

Yuan Mei wrote that "Wei Maid drinks the wine from the Nangong", which is really wrong. It should be Chen. But Yuan Mei doesn't have to research whether it is Wei or Chen. He used "honey trap" to get Nangong Wan drunk and let him give in easily. But Yuan Mei really made it clear about the origin of prostitutes in China. According to Yuan Mei, official prostitutes existed before Guan Zhong was listed as a state-owned brothel. Since the hostess of Chen Guo is not a good woman, she must be a "waitress" in the posthouse, that is, an official prostitute. Official prostitutes are "paid by the emperor." They just obey the government's work arrangements and complete their reception tasks, not for profit. The government only uses them to provide sexual services for state guests and does not want to get any economic benefits. It is only a means to achieve political goals.

Guan zhong's state-run brothel is entirely for profit, "collecting its night wealth to fill the country." What do you mean by "the night capital"? To put it bluntly, it is the money to sell X. Because there are men who buy sex, there are women who engage in prostitution; With the prostitution market, there will be a professional and market-oriented commercial brothel opened by Guan Zhong. Guan Zhong is only the initiator of state-run brothels. From this, we can trace the origin of prostitutes back to the era of Yu Xia in yaoyu four or five thousand years ago, or even earlier. The appearance of prostitutes is closely related to the exploitation, oppression and playing with women by the ruling class. They should be the twin sisters of private ownership. The palace is the largest brothel in the past dynasties, and royalty, princes and local officials are the biggest buyers of prostitution.

Yuan Mei said: "For more than three generations, food is the most important thing for the people, and courtesy treats others. How can there be prostitutes?" However, China's "food and clothing" has never been "sufficient"; China's "ethics" has never been "clear". Therefore, of course, women in China have lost their human rights, and they have no clothes to cover their bodies and no food to eat. For the lowest "human rights"-survival, they have to take the road of prostitutes. Because they really don't have any survival skills except stripping away their last instinct.

2 ? Why couldn't you help prostitution in ancient times? The prostitution system in ancient China actually originated from the marriage and family system implemented by the whole society. ?

Engels once said: "Prostitution is a necessary supplement to monogamy." In fact, for China, it is not only a question of "supplement", but also a twin system of two students, which complement each other and are indispensable. ?

In ancient China society, men had a kind of "limited sexual freedom". The restrictive conditions are: as long as it does not destroy the sexual relationship between marriage and family, it is allowed; Any sexual relationship that may destroy marriage and family must be severely condemned and prohibited. ?

In other words, a man with considerable wealth and social status can have a concubine (little wife) and a servant girl (servant girl) in addition to his wife. He can only have sex with his concubine (but he can't abandon his wife) or with his servant girl (as long as he "takes in" her afterwards and accepts her as his concubine). But outside the family, he can't commit adultery with any woman, nor can he have any "lover" or "third party" in the present sense. This is because, if the woman gets married, it will destroy the marriage of other men; Even if the woman is not married, her infidelity will destroy her future marriage or make another man unable to find a wife. ?

This is the deep-rooted connotation of "social justice" in China's ancient Confucianism, and it is the concretization of gender relations. ?

There are limits, and there must be concessions and other inclusiveness. That is to allow prostitutes to exist and allow men to visit prostitutes in a limited way. This is because the social status of prostitutes is often non-free or semi-free (so-called "prostitution", "adopted daughter" and so on), and it is impossible to marry a man with certain property and status. At best, they are just "redeemed" by men and become his little wives. Although this will often make this man lose face or lose face, it does not violate the social system, because it is just to resell a woman from a brothel to a family, or to find a brothel woman instead of a good girl when concubinage. It's strange, but it's harmless after all, just like other men. Of course, society will not interfere, just joking and joking. For lower-class men, it's no big deal that the Ming media is marrying a prostitute, as long as the prostitute can abide by women's morality after marriage. ?

On the contrary, if a man is addicted to whoring, even if he doesn't want his wife or marry her, society will at least severely condemn him. Many times, powerful clan organizations will "help", "save" and even punish him, such as depriving him of his position within the clan, marriage rights or inheritance rights. Because he destroyed the fundamental marriage system of society, he was called "doing nothing", "abandoning his family and starting a career", "living a decadent life", and even "being drunk and dreaming of death", "being dissolute and shameless" and so on. ?

It is precisely because of this marriage and family system that prostitutes are ready-made objects for lower-class men to reasonably and legally vent their premarital sexual desire or residual sexual desire after marriage; For those rich and powerful men, especially the literati class, prostitutes are the only "lovers" they can find reasonably and legally. This is because, at that time, among all the women in the world, only prostitutes could be young women who knew piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, were versatile, sociable and had relatively rich feelings; Only prostitutes can sing poems, talk about latitude and longitude and sing wine songs to them. In short, only prostitutes can have the same interests and hobbies, and have the same language and emotional communication with them. ?

This is not surprising, nor is it because prostitutes have any talent, but it is completely determined by the marriage and family system and gender role system of the whole society.

In ancient China, the system of marriage and family, the legal system of prostitutes and the system of gender roles were seamlessly combined and complemented each other. We can't sum it up in one word at all, so we have to call it the system of "harmonious operation of wives and prostitutes centered on men"?

Today, no matter from what angle, it is absolutely evil; But it is undeniable that it is harmonious and efficient from the perspective of social operation.