Tang poetry in brothel

The new biography of talented people in the Tang Dynasty says: "It is enough for people in the Tang Dynasty to appreciate elegance, elegance and elegance, and embroidery with blue hearts." This statement is correct. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many people who could read and write, from harem concubines to ladies and scholars, and then to nuns' crowns and prostitutes' concubines, and it became a trend for women to learn to write poems.

The greatest achievement of women in the Tang Dynasty was poetry, and the highest achievement was the prostitute with the lowest social status. Famous prostitutes in brothels have played a great role in promoting the development of Tang poetry, mainly in three aspects: 2 1 century: the Tang Dynasty is a great era of poetry, and there are almost no prostitutes in brothels who don't understand poetry, many of them can write poetry, and many of them write well. The complete Tang poetry contains 2 1 prostitute's 136 poems, which is enough to make a talented person and a beautiful woman sigh. However, this figure is only 1 12% compared with the actual total number of famous prostitutes in brothels at that time. Some of them are Three Poems of the Yanzilou, Seven Poems of Farewell to an Old Friend by Yao Zhang, Xiang Xiang Cave by Shi Feng, Farewell by Xu, Poems of Spring Hope by Xue Tao and Visiting Wushan Temple.

Xue Tao was the most talented poet among the famous prostitutes in the brothel in the Tang Dynasty. Xue Tao's Biography of All Tang Poems said:

Xue Tao, whose name is Hongdu, is a good girl in Chang 'an. She lived in Shu as an official with her father, so she became a musician, arguing wisdom and poetry, and had a strong atmosphere under the forest. Wei Gao, a town in Shu, is called a poem for drinking wine and a book for girls' schools. Entering and leaving the shogunate and passing through eleven towns are all famous for their poems. In the second year of my life, I lived in Huanhuaxi, wearing a female crown, so that I could make a small note of Songhua and was named Xue Tao.

Her poetic style influenced her to be extraordinary and brilliant, and she sang with poets such as Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, Zhang Ji, Wang Jian, Liu Yuxi and Du Mu. Five volumes of Jin Jiang Ji, a special collection of Shu engraving, have been lost. There are more than 500 pottery poems in Yi Jian and Fu Bi, which is more credible. The Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty contains 89 poems by Xue Tao, and several pseudo-poems have been deleted, so it is a good anthology. 1983, People's Literature Publishing House published Xue Tao's poetry anthology annotated by Zhang Pengzhou, deleted the pseudo-peony in Xue Tao's poetry anthology of The Complete Poems of Tang Poetry, and added three poems, namely, Huanhua Pavilion accompanied by Sichuan's main monarch and Liao Si's Fu Zao Ju, Zhu Jin Flower and Rockery changed from the title to 9 1. Since ancient times, romantic literati have the closest relationship with famous prostitutes in brothels. They appreciate each other and depend on each other. Literati know how to cherish fragrance and jade, while prostitutes can appreciate Yu Lang's talent and compose poems. In the previous chapter, the author has mentioned that the rise and fall of the fame and status of prostitutes in the Tang Dynasty depends almost entirely on the quality of celebrities. For example, Cui Ya, a wild scholar, said, "Fame follows horses and chariots, and reputation is ruined, and cups and plates are lost." Bai Juyi proudly wrote in Yuan Zhen:

..... When I came to Chang 'an again, I heard that a summer resident of an army wanted to recruit prostitutes, and the prostitutes boasted, "Can you be a prostitute with the song of everlasting regret?" Therefore, the price has been raised. The book says, "Who is the poet at the gate of Tongzhou Japanese General Pavilion?" ? Last night, when celebrating Jiangnan Day, I happened to meet the host in the convenor to entertain other guests. When prostitutes saw the servants coming, they pointed to each other and said, "This is Qin Zhongyin's main ear and everlasting regret!" From Chang 'an to Jiangxi, there are often people who write poems of servants, literati, monks, widows and virgins, and there are often people who recite poems of servants in rural schools, Buddhist temples, anti-tours and boating. This skill of carving insects is no good, but now the custom is very heavy, that is, ears.

It can be seen that the works of famous artists can double the value of prostitutes and become popular overnight.

Of course, this is only one aspect of the matter. On the other hand, literati still have the need to sing for themselves with the help of famous prostitutes in brothels. The contribution of prostitutes in brothels to Tang poetry lies not only in their achievements and communication ability in poetry, but also in the inspiring environment and artistic atmosphere they provide for poets, which undoubtedly plays an important role in their creation. If the poets before the mid-Tang Dynasty were concentrated, and a large number of prostitute poems often contained such elements as taking part in accidental amusement and self-love, then a considerable number of poems such as "seeing off prostitutes", "giving prostitutes", "leaving prostitutes", "cherishing prostitutes" and "mourning prostitutes" appeared in the mid-Tang Dynasty, and there were also many famous works with flesh and blood, such as Bai Juyi's Pipa Hang.

Du Mu enjoyed himself all his life and asked Liu for flowers. Most of his famous quatrains were sung by prostitutes in brothels. Zhang's collection of poems Farewell is his masterpiece. Du Mu met geisha in the third year of Daiwa (829) when he was the observation envoy of Shen Chuanshi in Hongzhou, Jiangxi. Seven years later, he took charge of the empire, divided it into the eastern capital, and met again in Luoyang. Feeling old and sad, Du Mu couldn't help but shed tears and wrote this short song "Zhang Shi" (the first layer of the poem describes Zhang's early life scene of entertaining people with color and art; On the second floor, write Shen Chuanshi as a concubine; On the third floor, I wrote that I saw Zhang again in Luoyang, and I was deeply touched. The whole poem is extremely sincere and tearful. Although it is not a masterpiece, it is still a masterpiece.