Brothel, Romance And Literati Literature

Brothel culture in Ming Dynasty is a very important part of Chinese women’s culture. Being the organic unity of prostitute traditional in China, Brothel culture represents the peak of our country prostitute culture. Prostitute culture, which originated in ancient times sacrificials and wine prostitutes, represents the occupation branch of the prostitute and banquets. The two branches in the Tang Dynasty, the Royal Academy Kabuki and Ping Kang wine prostitutes, had been the direct source of the brothel culture of Ming dynasty. In the Song Dynasties, prostitute culture reached its time of prosperity, and started to influences all walks of life. The government monopoly system restaurant and wine library are equipped with official and private prostitute duty. The wine prostitution and musician groups in Song Dynasty to the public from palace official in the Tang Dynasty, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of the prostitute culture in Ming dynasty. The implementation of the registration management system in Yuan Dynasty, realize the organic unity of register system and prostitute culture, also laid the material foundation for the brothel culture in Ming dynasty.In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang demoted the Yuan Dynasty aristocratic women into the penalty Fule Institute, later by the officials generals prostitute drinking, as his country prostitutes admission, Fule Institute became the beginning of Nanjing red-light district. Hongwu twenty-seven years, Zhu Yuanzhang in Nanjing built sixteen restaurant to storage of government-owned prostitute, and ministers to this feast, Jinling the restaurants had since become the Ming Dynasty official "hostel". Xuande years, officials off duty more than restaurants drinking-content than even the work abandoned, Zhu Zhanji cancelled the prostitute system. The prohibition of government-owned prostitute to a great extent, curbed the courtesan behavior in official, Institute of music no longer takes government banquet activities. Prostitutes in a certain extent, they can use their advantages to business brothel. In the Ming dynasty brothel culture is the organic unity of HangYuan with prostitutes. HangYuan is the basic organization unit of the Ming dynasty included music families, brothel is a home-based business unit. HangYuan as scholars build a kind of elegant home space. In this space, dance music, drinking the drinking-content become a theme of consumption.Female prostitution brothel is subject to the world, their erotic dance, drink with help, to attract chlients lingering upon. Good courtesan often are often familiar with verses, classic piano chess calligraphy and painting, to win the favour of the philistines. Literati contributed to a large number of literary works.In the early Ming Dynasty, literati often use a condescending attitude to observe the brothel and female prostitution, regard them as a kind of goods or glory into literary works. The scholars of Jinling restaurant inscriptions and depiction of female prostitution song and dance, is a calm, outside of the literature record, and has not formed a kind of emotional communication and prostitute. Accompanied frequent literati amusement activities, prostitutes tasting activities gradually prospered. The literati Play of famous prostitute of brothels looks, renowned art, language, tasting and such traits as literature review. The prostitutes tastings guided of prostitutes poetry creation prosperity.Prostitute literature is an important part of the brothel literature, it reflects the life experience and emotional experience. The prostitute poems contain a kind of compassion for life, regardless of is the exclamation lamented mislanding the dust or bid farewell to acacia, cannot erase the pain. In comparison, prostitute CI is revealed a vivid and humorous, reflect woman boudoir, taste. In the late Ming Dynasty the courtesan frenzy and Ming emotion enlightenment are closely linked, reflecting the Ming era female human requirements, and also embodies the reconstruction of the gender culture. The Ming dynasty literati attempting a gender change in literature reflects in many aspects, from the female doctrine to the sexual enlightenment, or from the "eclectic" to "erotic".