If you can get something from "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", what do you want most? Is it a bowl of hot lamb in a water basin, a colorful Shangyuan lantern, or a Chang'an sand plate that will be taken out by Sicheng Jing'an when it is critical?
In "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", there are sand tables in every square in Chang'an. The picture is a close-up of the watchtower in a sand table
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Fang, Chang'an The soul of order
Chang'an in Tang Dynasty was a huge city that people all over the world yearn for. In an era without monitoring, it was not easy to manage such a large city in an orderly manner. So the rulers simply used large and small and built Chang'an City (formerly Daxing City) into a chessboard style. The huge city is divided into 108 squares . The squares are like independent small cities surrounded by earth walls. The walls are surrounded by square gates. They usually open at sunrise and close at sunset.
Floor plan of Chang'an City in Tang Dynasty
Since the palace is located in the north of the city, the nobles and princes also lived in the squares around the imperial city of Miyagi, and the squares in the south were mostly where the people lived. The west city of the east city in the north of the city is the main trading place, and most businessmen gather here; Chongrenfang near the election courtyard is a gathering place for officials seeking officials; Daozhengfang’s shrimp wine is famous for Chang'an and becomes a must-go for wine lovers The place...Changan’s various workshops have their own characteristics, which together form the grand scene of the flourishing Chang’an.
Scenery on Fangjian Avenue in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an"
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The most famous "red light district" of the Tang Dynasty, Pingkangfang
is located Pingkang Square on the 5th Square of Third Street in Chang'an East District is one of the most famous workshops in Chang'an. It is adjacent to Dongshi, one of the two cities in the east, adjacent to Chongrenfang where literati and scholars gather in the north, and Xuanyangfang where high-ranking officials live in the south. Taking advantage of this natural geographical advantage, Pingkangfang has become the "place of prostitutes living in Chang'an, where there are few chivalrous people in Kyoto, and gathered here."
Because there are many wealthy businessmen and officials with money and power among the consumers in Pingkang Fang, under their arrogance, the prostitutes in Pingkang Fang have also become luxurious. In Chen Kaige's "The Legend of the Demon Cat," Jin Wuwei Chen Yunqiao took the Pingkangfang brothel with his hands to stroll around. The brothel is not only brightly lit, but also has a boat on the water and flying fish in the sky, so gorgeous. According to historical records, the high-quality Geisha residences in Pingkangfang are almost all "single-family villas" with large gardens in front and back. Therefore, the "red light district" of Pingkangfang is not an ordinary business footwashing city, but an extremely luxurious entertainment venue.
In "The Legend of the Demon Cat", the scene in the brothel of Pingkangfang
However, there are not only singing girls in Pingkangfang, such as "Changan Twelve" In "Time", Li Xiangxiang, a prostitute from Pingkangfang, tells the protagonist Zhang Xiaojing that the south of her residence is the Youxiang Mansion, which is true.
Although there is no sand table of Jing'an Division, we will use historical data to restore the appearance of Pingkangfang back then. First of all, according to archaeological observations, Pingkang Square is 1,022 meters from east to west and 500 meters from north to south. covers a total area of about 500,000 square meters , that is, nearly half of the Forbidden City (the Forbidden City covers an area of 720,000 square meters). . Like the other squares, the Dazhishijie in Pingkangfang is divided into four districts, and the four districts are divided into four districts by the small Shizijie. In this way, is divided into 16 districts .
Pingkangfang internal floor plan
Among the 16 communities in the above figure, in fact prostitutes gather only in the area "East of the North Gate", which is also called It is the "land of three songs" . So what are the remaining 15 districts? In fact, because Pingkang Fang is located in the golden zone north of Chang'an, the main residences in this area are high-ranking officials and dignitaries. For example, Shen Guogong Li Mu's residence, Lanling Princess's residence, Taiping Princess's residence, etc. are all located in the square. Described in "Two Hours"During the Tianbao period mentioned, those who lived here were still nobles.
710-740 Pingkangfang's land layout plan speculation
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Pingkangfang's prostitute rank
Understand the inside of Pingkangfang The basic structure of, you can clearly see that the real red light district is actually just one of the 16 districts of the “trigeous land”. Why is it called Sanqu? Speaking of this, it must be related to the hierarchy of prostitutes at that time.
Here and continue to interpret the words of Li Xiangxiang in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an". When someone who wants to track down the clues asked Li Xiangxiang: "(We found) there is a word on the card with a lotus logo. The second petal on the left has two crescent marks pinched by a nail. At that time, a lotus logo was used in the song. A certain girl from the prostitute house.”
Li Xiangxiang’s answer is, “This Dalang is a wealthy man, and he doesn’t know what a song is. In Pingkang Fang, both the southern song and the middle song are The best prostitutes are all officials, eunuchs, princes and nobles. Girls all have names, surnames, heads and faces. One song is different. They are all ordinary people, who are exhausted, choose people, and so on. Girls are fleeing. Tian’s unregistered households often change to new ones, and even the names are mixed.”
Stills of "The Twelfth Hour in Chang'an", the official Yao Runeng and the prostitute Li Xiangxiang
Li Xiangxiang’s words Mentioned "Nanqu", "Zhongqu" and "Yiqu" together are "三曲" . There is a related record in "Taiping Guangji". The prostitutes in Pingkangfang, Chang'an City, "There are clamors among the prostitutes, most of them are in Nanqu, and the middle song is along the wall, and a scumbag prostitute lives, which is quite condemned by the second song. ".
The plot of the house in the Pingkangfang trilogy
The prostitutes of Chang’an do not necessarily have to be outstanding, but they are more talented. Because the guests are mostly literati, so they do It's not just a business of skin and flesh, but through their own talents to make guests feel real physical and mental pleasure between games. Therefore, the prostitutes with outstanding talents in Pingkangfang mostly live in "Nanqu" and "Zhongqu", while ordinary prostitutes with ordinary talents can only live in the "Yiqu" land near the wall of the square. The place where they lived became the standard for the classification of prostitutes in Pingkangfang.
The land of a song in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an"
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Prostitutes are also political core circles
Tang Dynasty in its heyday, nobles The bureaucratic life is extravagant, and the fashion of prostitutes prevails. The Pingkangfang Sanqu, which is close to the official residential area, quickly established a relatively stable relationship with officials due to its unique geographical advantage. Prostitutes often attended official banquets and outings , etc. Of course, the prostitutes who came into contact with officials were all the excellent prostitutes mentioned by Li Xiangxiang above.
Stills of "The Legend of the Demon Cat", the scene where officials gather in the Pingkangfang Brothel
Because of the excellent prostitute's long-term relationship with officials, eunuchs, princes and nobles in Chang'an, they want to enter the officialdom The electors use the york as a springboard for entering officialdom. With the help of Pingkang's prostitutes, they spread their talents and get acquainted with the powerful and other electors under the bridge of the prostitutes. From this perspective, Pingkangfang provides a good social platform for those who want to be officials, the powerful, and the children of officials. It can be said that this red light district is actually a small "political center" for officials and literati.
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The sad side of the Pingkang prostitute
Although the prostitutes come into contact with high-ranking officials and live in luxurious "single-family villas", in fact, their lives are far from there. The surface is glamorous.
The high-quality prostitutes in Pingkangfang are known for their talents, but talents never come out of thin air. Prostitutes usually enter Pingkang Fang at a young age and begin to receive technical training. The process of learning Ge Ling Ci Fu is very strict. If they are a little slack and lazy, they will often be severely flogged . The whip used by the workshop uses a whip woven from leather straps, which is slightly thicker than a horse whip, with more than a hundred steel needles inserted in it, and the needle awn is about 2 minutes long. When the whip went down, the little girls were immediately covered in flesh.
Under rigorous training, they have experienced talents, although they have begun to live a luxurious life, but in fact they are no more than canaries kept in cages. Pingkang prostitutes mostly belong to official prostitutes who have registered in Jiaofang and become happy. The other part are private prostitutes. They are usually managed by a special person, that is, false mothers or Duzhi (the leading prostitutes in the song, in charge of prostitutes), and their actions are restricted . In addition to being invited by guests to travel, these singing girls are only allowed to go out three times a month, that is, on the eighth, eighteen, and twenty-eighth day of the month. Every time they go out, they have to pay a deposit of one yuan (a thousand yuan, that is, one or two silver) to the fake mother.
In "The Twelfth Hours of Chang'an", Li Xiangxiang, a good prostitute, is exquisitely furnished, but even she can only leave Pingkangfang only by the invitation of officials.
The depression of being nurtured , Many prostitutes have the idea of wanting to escape, but not all of them can break through the obstacles and escape successfully. There is no risk of Geisha who can still change their destiny by marrying someone , but the special status makes it difficult for Geisha to find someone who really wants to marry them in their youth. When the old age fades, the singing girls can only marry a low-status person, such as the pipa girl in Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing". Although she was "named the first part of Jiaofang" when she was young, she can only marry someone with a low status. Marry a merchant woman. If a singing girl cannot marry or marry a non-human person, gets into a dilemma after being old and degenerate, so she can only become a nun or female crown and spend the last time of her life alone.
Stills of "The Legend of the Demon Cat", the young and beautiful Orchid in Pingkang Fang
Chang'an in Tang Dynasty was a dreamy city, and Pingkang Fang where singing and dancing was a dream. At the festival, even poets once regarded "See Chang'an Flowers in One Day" as the fastest chant in life. But behind She Jinghuaying, the flowers that belong to Chang'an bloom and fail, but not everyone can see it.
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