Among the many famous prostitutes in the late Qing Dynasty, Sai Jinhua should be the most legendary one. In addition to "Nie Haihua" based on her, there are many other literary works and film and television works involving her story.
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Liu Xiaoqing The drama " is the best " is about the legendary life of Sai Jinhua.
So what is the story of Sai Jinhua?
Sai Jinhua, whose real name is Zheng Caiyun, was born in a poor family in Suzhou . Xiao Caiyun has a lively personality and looks very good-looking, which makes her a favorite of her family. Although her family is ordinary, she has never let Caiyun suffer.
When Xiao Caiyun was 13 years old, she had grown up to be a slender woman. She was a standard beauty embryo. After the spread among the neighbors, people who came to propose marriage stepped over the threshold, and at the same time, there were pimps who paid her attention.
There is a family in Suzhou named Jin, and this family does it to find women for their clients. The Jin family has a daughter named Jin Yunxian, who is only a few years older than Caiyun, so the Jin family asked Jin Yunxian to be her sister-in-law with Caiyun, and then made a profit by pulling Caiyun down!
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Jin Yunxian travels with Caiyun every day, and serves three meals with good wine and good food, and occasionally presents some gifts and money. How can Xiao Caiyun, who is lively and playful, stand up to these temptations? Soon Jin Yunxian took him to the thief ship.
At that time, there was a flower boat in Suzhou, which was a mobile brothel. In order to attract tourists, some boat owners would hire some geishas to come on board to sell their arts or to sell themselves.
Those who do not sell themselves are called "clean shepherds", that is, they sing poems and songs with tourists, or drink tea and chat.
was rejected by Caiyun at first, and her family strongly opposed it.But he couldn't stand the Jin family's clever tactics, and after a coercion and lure, Xiao Caiyun didn't dare to resist, and even comforted himself in his heart: just to be a clean shepherd, not to sell himself, not to mention that he could make a lot of money!
But how could she, who has not yet been deeply involved in the world, understand that it is easy to go down in the bitter sea of mortals, but it is difficult to go ashore! And once people break through the moral bottom line, they will become without bottom line.
Caiyun also changed from being sneaky to being open fire. Changed to Fu Caiyun .
Since then, Fu Caiyun has put down all his moral burdens, and with his beauty, he has become a prosperous person on the Fengyue Field, and he was even selected as the "Number One Scholar" on the Hua Kui List. The dignitaries all want to kiss Xiangze, and there is also a serious champion.
The champion's name is Hong Jun, and he is still Fu Caiyun's fellow in Suzhou. Although he is an old man of nearly 50 years old, after seeing Fu Caiyun's beauty, he couldn't help feeling pity and cherishing jade, and he immediately spent a lot of money on it. Fu Caiyun redeemed himself.
This old champion really likes Fu Caiyun. Although he is a concubine in the third room, he is also a eight-carried sedan chair who is officially married to the door. . And served with delicious food and drink every day, let him enjoy the glory and wealth, and became a serious lady of the champion.
In 1887, Empress Dowager ordered Hong Jun to send ambassadors to Western European countries. According to the etiquette, he also needed to bring the minister's wife. Hong Jun did not bring the wife of the first wife who was married to the Ming media, but a prostitute. Fu Caiyun shows his love for her.
Fu Caiyun did not disappoint Hong Jun. With her super-high language talent, she quickly mastered the daily language and social terms in both English and German, which not only helped Hong Jun in her mission, but also laid the foundation for her to become a European courtesan.
At that time, Hong Jun and his party lived in the embassy in Berlin, Germany.The embassy was originally a duke's castle, and it was built extremely richly and luxuriously. When Fu Caiyun was young and beautiful, she was like a princess in this castle.
According to rumors: She is wearing a peacock feather scarf, wearing a six-piece Xiangling skirt with 24 streamers. The heel of the shoe is carved into a lotus shape, and then stuffed into a pink silk scarf. Every step is like opening a lotus flower. With the swaying posture and delicate face, it directly compares the upper class women in Europe.
After four years as an ambassador to Germany, Fu Caiyun has become a courtesan of the upper class in Western Europe. She not only frequents the theaters and dance halls of Berlin, but also visits celebrities in famous cities. She once shook hands with William II, Dance with German Chief of Staff Waldsee.
In 1890, Minister Hong Jun's term of office expired, and he brought Fu Caiyun back to Beijing to report his duties. The imperial court sent 8 carriages and two big red sedan chairs to greet her. A team of 12 people opened the way. The front and back were a mile long. For a time, Fu Caiyun, the first lady of the top class, felt very imposing, and the name of the first lady also spread all over the capital.
But God made a joke with Fu Caiyun. In 1893, Hong Jun died of illness. Fu Caiyun was suddenly without support, she was kicked out of the Hong family, and the 50,000 silver taels promised by Hong Jun before his death was also stolen by Hong Jun's clan brother.
In 1893, Fu Caiyun came to Shanghai with the money from his private house, where he met Sun Zuozhou, a fancier who was singing.
But Sun Zuozhou is ignorant, and Fu Caiyun bears all the expenses for the two of them to eat, drink and play. In less than a year, Fu Caiyun's savings have been spent cleanly, and he is used to living a luxurious life She couldn't stand being poor, and after discussing it with Sun Zuozhou, she started to become a prostitute again!
But this made Hong Jun's descendants feel ashamed, and immediately joined the prefect of Shanghai to force Fu Caiyun to leave Shanghai, and even the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui were not allowed to live. Fu Caiyun and Sun Zuozhou only got Tianjin to resume their old jobs.
In 1898, she moved to the Bada Hutongs in Beijing, where Fu Caiyun became a prostitute herself, recruited a few prostitutes to run the business, and named her "Golden Flower Class".
At this time, Fu Caiyun was nearly thirty years old. Although she was a prostitute, but by virtue of her appearance and communication skills, she had accumulated some contacts in the circle of dignitaries and nobles in Beijing and Tianjin. At the same time, she also changed her name. Chengsai Jinhua is also called the second master of Sai.
Although being a prostitute doesn't have much status, Sai Jinhua's life is not bad, but God made a joke with her again.
In 1900, Eight-Power Allied Forces took advantage of the Boxer Rebellion incident to invade China and entered Beijing all the way from Tianjin. Cixi fled with Guangxu, leaving only the common people to be looted and oppressed by foreigners. Sai Jinhua also took the golden flower class with him. He fled to Nancheng and temporarily settled in a low-class brothel, but he still did not escape.
That night, a few foreign officers were out drinking and having fun, just knocking on the brothel where Sai Jinhua was temporarily staying. Sai Jinhua showed fear, and when she heard that the other party was German, she felt a lot of peace of mind, and then communicated with the other party in fluent German, and even directly reported the names of many German celebrities, including the Marshal of the Eight-Power Allied Forces Waldsey.
Wadsey
The foreign officer did not dare to neglect, and immediately reported to his superiors. Unexpectedly, the marshal of the Allied Forces really knew the prostitute, and even sent a chariot to take Sai Jinhua to the officer's headquarters.
Wadesi has old feelings and longings for the former envoy's wife, Sai Jinhua feels that she has found a protective umbrella, and after going back and forth, the two become a dewy relationship.
However, Sai Jinhua has never forgotten that she is a Chinese. On the one hand, she asked Wadsi to restrain the soldiers and not to kill civilians indiscriminately, and on the other hand, she asked the coalition not to destroy cultural relics. Wadsey remembered his old feelings and restrained the burning, killing and looting of the foreign soldiers in time.
When the people first heard that Sai Jinhua had taken refuge with foreigners, they called her a traitor, but they didn't think that Sai Jinhua was saving them, so they all called her "the protector of the country".
Liu Bannong wrote in "Sai Jinhua Ability": China has two "babies", one is Cixi and the other is Sai Jinhua. Cixi betrayed the country,Sai Jinhua sells herself, Cixi is hateful, Sai Jinhua is pitiful.
This is of course a later story, but people call a prostitute "the protector of the country", and Empress Dowager Cixi , which makes Cixi a little angry, which also brings Sai Jinhua into a lawsuit.
In 1903, a prostitute in the Golden Flower class refused to pick up customers, and finally died of humiliation by swallowing opium. This kind of thing was big or small at the time. As long as some money was given, the government would turn a blind eye, but the court seemed to intend to pursue Sai Jinhua, and even put her and the court prisoners together.
A prostitute at the end of the Qing Dynasty
However, Sai Jinhua also accumulated a lot of money and contacts. After spending most of her family wealth, she was finally exempted from the death penalty, sentenced to manslaughter, and sent her back to Suzhou. After being released from prison, Sai Jinhua was emaciated, and the tortoise slaves and prostitutes of the Jinhua class took advantage of the fire to loot and ran away with all their belongings together with Sun Zuozhou.
A prison disaster made Sai Jinhua see everything in the world, and she was tired of selling sex and laughing, and she didn't want to continue living a life of displacement, but she was a prostitute, and she was known to everyone. The famous prostitute, can you still find a home?
In 1910, Sai Jinhua's wedding
Sai Jinhua had a very bleak later life. She was married twice in 1910 and 1918, but both husbands died young. At this time, Sai Jinhua The flowers are getting old, and they have completely lost their support. They live peacefully in a private house on Beijing Tianqiao, and even the rent cannot be paid normally.
The winter of 1936 was the last winter that Sai Jinhua spent.
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