Prostitutes belong to common culture. The Tang Dynasty, especially its heyday, was the heyday of elegant culture. Although the street culture is also very prosperous, I feel that I still hide half of her face behind her guitar from us.
Compared with the Tang Dynasty. Only in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty did street culture stand out. Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, prostitute culture reached its peak. The eight wonders of Jinling are breathtaking. Famous prostitutes are immortal because they never regard themselves as a man's plaything. On the contrary, famous prostitutes are higher than the sky, caring about the country and the world. The most famous: Liu, the first of the eight wonders of Jinling. Liu can't compare with Chen Yuanyuan in appearance and Dong Xiaowan in talent and emotion. But what is commendable is that Liu shouldered the feat of saving the country in the most humble capacity.
Tang dynasty? To tell you the truth, I think my head is too big to think of anything. The most famous: Yu? I am a murderer.
Xue Tao? Father Xue Yun entered Shu as an official, and his wife and daughter lived in Shu after his death. When I was a child, I lived in Chengdu with my father. When I was eight or nine years old, I could already write poetry, but my father died of poverty. At the age of sixteen, I fell in love with a music book and never got married after taking off the music book. Later, he settled in Huanhuaxi. Xue Tao, a beautiful man from Minhui, was 8 years old. He was able to write poems, was proficient in temperament, and was versatile. He became famous for a while. During the Zhenyuan period of Dezong (785 ~ 804), Wei Gao, the envoy of Nanxichuan in Ren Jian, ordered him to write poems and drink, so he became a musician. Yuan Zi, Liu□, Gao Chongwen, Wu, Li, Duan Wenchang, Du, Guo Zhao, Li Deyu, etc. came to Shuzhong successively, and all went in and out of the shogunate as geisha and diners. Wei Gao once asked the court to grant him the title of minister and provincial school clerk, which failed to come true, but people often called it "girls' school book". Later generations called Geji a "school book", which came from her. Xue Tao's date of birth is unknown. The year of his death was during Duan Wenchang's second visit to Shu, that is, between the sixth year (832) and the ninth year (835) of Daiwa. It was a mistake to say that she was in contact with Gao Pian when Gao Pian was appointed as our ambassador in Sichuan in 874, the first year of Emperor Xuanzong's reign. Xue Tao and famous poets at that time, such as Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, Zhang Ji, Wang Jian, Liu Yuxi, Du Mu, Zhang Hu, etc. There have been paid exchanges. Living in Huanhuaxi, he made his own small pink stationery to write poems. Later generations copied it and called it "Xue". In her later years, she disguised as a Taoist woman, built a poetry building in Bijifang and spent her later years in a quiet life. Wang Jian's poem "Sending Books to Xue Tao in the Middle of Shu" praises: "The books of Wan Li Qiaobian Girls' School are collected in loquat flowers. It is better to lead the spring breeze than to sweep your eyebrows. "
But Xue Tao belongs to the late Tang Dynasty, not a prosperous time. The characteristics of prostitutes in Tang Dynasty: Most of them appeared as female Taoist priests.
If I had to choose a topic, I would choose Jinling Eight Wonders in the late Ming Dynasty, especially Liu. Instead of choosing prostitutes in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.