Withed vines, old trees and crows, small bridges and flowing water, and thin horses on the ancient roads.
The sun sets, and the heartbroken person is at the end of the world.
This song Yuan song written by writer Ma Zhiyuan Xiaoling " Tian Jingsha·Autumn Feeling " writes the word "skinny horse". Originally, this song "skinny" describes the traveler riding a thin horse alone and wanders around the world. It is a description of the loneliness and loneliness of the traveler that expresses emotions in the scenery and the blending of emotions.
In this little song, the thin horse is most appropriately described, reflecting the sad mood of a lonely traveler riding a thin horse and traveling alone. In this little lyric, the thin horse is indeed a thin horse. However, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the thin horse did not simply refer to the horse, but it also contained the tragic and bloody history of women of that era.
There was a female identity in ancient times called Skinny Horse
In fact, in ancient times, Skinny Horse referred to a miserable female identity. In ancient times, there was a group of women who were abducted and sold since childhood. Their fate was involuntary and very miserable. After they were bought away, they would be arranged to learn how to please men from childhood. Waiting for their fate was to be sold at a clear price after they grew up.
Female literally refers to thin horses. In ancient times, horse dealers liked to buy some thin foals at low prices, and then raise the thin foals into BMWs and take out for delivery, and the price immediately increased dozens of times. These girls are like foals. They were taken away at low prices when they were young, and then carefully trained and sold at high prices. Therefore, the ancients called them thin horses.
Which dynasty originated from is not verified, but through historical records, we can know that raising thin horses was popular as early as during the Han Dynasty of .
Just like The queen of Emperor Wu of Han Wei Zifu actually belongs to the skinny horse. Wei Zifu himself is a dancer in the house of Emperor Wu of Han Princess Pingyang , and his mother Wei Ma is even a female slave in Princess Pingyang's house.
During the Han Dynasty, it was already popular among princes and nobles to adopt or buy girls from poor families to be prostitutes, and ordered people to cultivate their talents such as singing and dancing, and then let them perform talent at family banquets. At the same time, they will also treat them as gifts to each other between princes and nobles.
This is how Wei Zifu was. When Emperor Wu of Han arrived at Princess Pingyang's mansion, Princess Pingyang held a banquet to entertain Emperor Wu of Han. During the banquet, Wei Zifu performed singing and dancing, which also made Emperor Wu of Han fall in love with her at first sight. During the intermission of the banquet, Emperor Wu of Han was impatient to take Wei Zifu to the locker room and favored her.
When Princess Pingyang saw that her younger brother Emperor Wu of Han liked Wei Zifu so much, she gave Wei Zifu to Emperor Wu of Han as a gift. Wei Zifu also rose to prominence and became the queen of Han .
and the same is true for Diao Chan in the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Diao Chan was poor since childhood and was sold to Situ Wang Yun 's house as a singer. Wang Yun took a fancy to Diao Chan's beauty, so he used her to use the beauty trick. He first made Diao Chan fascinated Lu Bu at the banquet, promised to give Diao Chan to Lu Bu, and then made Diao Chan fascinated Dong Zhuo at the banquet. Wang Yun used a series of beauty tricks and used Diao Chan to alienate the adopted father-son relationship between Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo, and was eventually assassinated by the angry Lu Bu.
Diao Chan is actually a thin horse raised by Wang Yun, and can be regarded as a gift for human relationships between powerful people. It’s just that Diao Chan is a fictional character in literary works.
Diao Chan and Wei Zifu, both of whom are real and empty, are considered thin horses, but they are both lucky. They both follow the princes and nobles, especially Wei Zifu, who have become a generation of queens. They are all in a poor situation among thin horses.
Except for things like Diao Chan and Wei Zifu, there are countless women in ancient history, especially singers and prostitutes raised between princes and nobles, which are all thin horses. However, there was no exclusive term for thin horses at that time.
Until The great poet Bai Juyi hired more than a hundred singers at home. Bai Juyi later compared the singers in his home to a thin horse in his poems. Therefore, the name of thin horse spread. By the Ming and Qing dynasties, the word thin horse basically became the exclusive noun for these girls with miserable fate.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, raising thin horses and selling thin horses has formed a very complete gray industrial chain
In fact, before the Ming and Qing dynasties, thin horses were all gifts used by the upper class princes and nobles to communicate and share favors, and the middle and lower class people cannot reach them at all.
After , the Song Dynasty , business in ancient China became more and more prosperous, and many businessmen rely on business to get rich. As the saying goes, men become bad when they have money. These middle and low-level businessmen want to play in different ways when they have two money, so they want to customize exclusive skinny horses according to their needs. Therefore, this has given rise to an industrial chain where people find human traffickers to buy little girls and then come back to raise thin horses.
probably in , the selling of thin horses in the middle and late period of Ming Dynasty has formed a very complete gray industrial chain. In this industry, special human traffickers have gone to the public to find girls from poor backgrounds and beautiful appearances, and bought them from the girls' parents at a low price. Due to the ancient idea of favoring boys over girls, many parents of poor families will sell their daughters and leave their sons for family life. In addition to finding poor families to acquire girls, some vicious human traffickers will also abduct girls and take them away while their family members are not around. After
, these traffickers will sell the girls back to people who specialize in cultivating and selling thin horses. These men are called dentistry men and women are called dentistry women. The dentist and the dentist will specially tailor the training skills to the acquired girls so that they can sell them at a good price in the future.
tailor-made skills training is mainly based on the quality of girls. For example, girls who are good-looking and smart will be trained to be perfect talented girls. At this time, the stylist and the stylist will train them in arts such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs, and singing. They will also teach them some game projects that the princes and nobles often play, and at the same time, they must maintain their slender body shape. In this way, the talented girl who is almost perfect is more likely to be favored by the princes and nobles at that time, and is more likely to be sold at high prices. Therefore, it is the person that the stylist and nobles focus on training and attention.
The famous beauty in history Chen Yuanyuan is a typical thin horse. Chen Yuanyuan's real name is Xing Yuan . Because she lost her mother since childhood, she was given to her aunt's family to raise by her father who favored boys and was renamed Chen Yuanyuan after following her uncle's surname. Later, due to the drought, my uncle's family was in poverty. Her aunt and uncle had no choice but to sell Chen Yuanyuan for two taels of silver.
Later, because of her beautiful appearance, Chen Yuanyuan was regarded as a treasure by the dental lady and sent to Suzhou Liyuan to learn folk art. When he grew up, Chen Yuanyuan was not only extremely beautiful, but also had good singing skills. She was both outstanding in color and art and was famous in Jiangnan at that time.
Later, Chen Yuanyuan was attracted by Gong Ruofu, the son of Suzhou Gong Xiuling . Gong Ruofu spent 3,000 taels of silver to buy Chen Yuanyuan from the toothed woman. Thinking about the fact that Chen Yuanyuan was only given two taels of silver when he sold it. After a few years of training, he could already sell 3,000 taels of silver. It can be seen how profitable the business of Shouma was.
However, Chen Yuanyuan's fate was not very good. Gong Ruofu's father Gong Xiuling did not agree to Chen Yuanyuan's entry. In the end, Chen Yuanyuan fell into the hands of Tian Hongyu, the father-in-law of the last Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. Tian Hongyu gave her as a gift to the general Wu Sangui, which started the incident of Wu Sangui being angry for Chen Yuanyuan for the sake of her.
Of course, not all girls are as beautiful as Chen Yuanyuan, who is a little less talented and will be trained to become secretary-type female assistants, and the dental lady will train them some business skills such as management books, socializing and socializing. Of course, art such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, and singing will also allow them to dabble, but the focus is on business.
The girls with the worst talent and appearance will be classified as housewife type. These girls will not learn artistic knowledge such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, and singing. They will not even let them know literacy. They mainly accept housewife skills such as needlework, frying, cooking, and frying. Their type is clearly defined as housewife type.
Due to different qualifications and different training skills accepted, the final selling prices of these thin horses are of course different. A perfect and talented girl like Chen Yuanyuan can certainly be sold for 3,000 taels of silver, but female secretary and housewife types cannot be sold for such a high price, but these girls are usually sold for dozens or hundreds of taels of silver.
Of course, girls with different qualifications were relatively cheaper when they received it. For example, Chen Yuanyuan was collected by two taels of silver at the beginning, which was considered a sky-high price. This is because Chen Yuanyuan is naturally beautiful, and she is naturally beautiful and smart.
According to the market conditions at that time, the dental dentist generally only charges a few hundred cents for girls with average qualifications, and sells them according to the lowest price of dozens of taels of silver. In the middle, the cost of food, clothing, housing, transportation and training is only more than ten taels of silver. Even if you sell at the lowest price of dozens of taels of silver, you will have at least several times the profit.
After raising girls, they are ready to sell them. Since they want to sell, there must be a trading place, and of course this trading place cannot be sold in the market. Usually, the trading venues for thin horses are in extremely hidden and elegant places, and the dentist or dentist brings customers here to appreciate them.
After the customer enters the house, the whole process will be hosted by the dentist. The dentist usually shouts: "Girls are coming out to meet guests."
Then the girls waiting for the sale will come out in turn for customers to choose. At this time, it is like choosing a horse in the horse market. The customer will choose the girl they like from the girls' body shape, appearance, voice, skin color, foot size, etc.
If selected, the customer cannot say that she is the only one. Usually, the customer will insert the golden hairpin prepared by the dentist on the girl's head, which means she has been selected. If none of the clients of this group of girls are selected, then wave your hand and replace the next group of girls. If the customer has not selected it in the end, he will usually give some tips to the dentist. Anyway, the dentist will not lose money, and he can earn some whether it is open or not.
and the girl who was selected to buy it will have about three endings:
The first type is to be bought back as an outer room and kept outside. You will definitely not be able to enter the house. Most of the men who buy her will ask her to vent when they have needs. They are usually like pets and are kept in a house by these rich and powerful men.
The second type is that it may be used as a gift by a man when he buys it. He will first be vented, and then pass them on to others as gifts after he gets tired of playing. This ending is also the worst. These girls may end up suffering from various abuses and tortured to death.
The third type is that if the girl is lucky, she is pregnant and has a boy, according to ancient etiquette and rules, the girl can enter the house and become a concubine, but her status in the family is also extremely low and she will be tortured and troubled by her legitimate wife. However, if you can marry into a wealthy family, as long as you survive until your old age, the outcome will be more stable.
In fact, the girl who was chosen to leave was not too miserable. The worst thing was the girl who was not chosen to leave. The ending of a girl who was not chosen is the most miserable. The dentist and the dentist have raised them for several years and have invested a lot of money in them. This cannot be vain. Therefore, in order to recover the capital, the dentist and the dentist will sell them to a brothel to recover the capital when they are old and have not been selected by customers. Thinking about these girls end up falling into the dust, that is endless pain.
Because of the business of Skin Horses, people in the Skin Horse industry chain have built their money on women's pain. Especially in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, princes, nobles or wealthy merchants would show their identity by buying thin horses. It seemed that buying thin horses was like modern people buying luxury cars like BMW Mercedes-Benz .
The customer group of buying thin horses during the Qing Dynasty period penetrated into all walks of life, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. The officials of the court bought thin horses, scholars and scholars who studied also bought thin horses, landlords also bought thin horses, and wealthy merchants even wanted to buy thin horses. This phenomenon continued until the demise of the Qing Dynasty and gradually disappeared in the middle and late Republic of China. However, even in the middle and late Republic of China, there were still people who secretly engaged in the thin horse industry. It was not until the founding of New China that the thin horse industry completely withdrew from the historical stage under the blow of the people's government.
The most popular place for buying and selling thin horses is the Jiangnan region, and the most popular place in the Jiangnan region is Yangzhou . This is because Yangzhou salt merchants are rich and are a place where the rich gather in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The beauties in the Jiangnan region have always been slender and elegant. In addition, the salt merchants in Yangzhou are rich enough to compete with the country, so Yangzhou became the main trading market for thin horses in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Therefore, it was also called Yangzhou thin horses in later generations, which was a major feature of society at that time.
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Therefore, the thin horse is actually a bloody and tears history of feudal women. It is a phenomenon of people who cannibalize people in feudal society, which prefers boys over girls and is inferior to women.
, especially the aristocratic class in feudal society, claiming to read books of sages and full of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trustworthiness, can make the thin horse industry popular for a while. As the saying goes, there will be no harm without the buyer needs of these aristocrats and wealthy businessmen, there will be no sellers. So in the final analysis, these aristocrats and wealthy businessmen have led to the tragic life of the thin horse girls, which shows the hypocritical faces of the ruling class in feudal society.
The sun sets, and the heartbroken man is in the world is the most suitable word for describing girls who became thin horses in ancient times.
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