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Chapter 171 Traveling Over the Tomb-sweeping Day

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    Since Qingming Festival is connected with the Shangsi Festival, the imperial court has a few more days off.

    Ever since Yu Tian moved to Fragrant Hills, Jiexusi hadn't seen her again.  On the day of "burning the kang", I was supposed to come, but I was too busy with work and couldn't get away, so my wife Yu Xin had to bring her children to congratulate.

    This time when I came to Xiangshan, I just wanted to hide for a few days.

    As soon as he arrived at the villa, Jiexisi sent the groom and entourage back.

    He stroked his gray beard and walked into the door.  He thought about it: in his spare time, with a confidant, a pot of tea, chatting about homework, even if he is relatively silent, he just needs to pick up the tea and drink it slowly, savoring it carefully.  Life is just like making tea when you are leisurely

    Entering Yu Tian's room, but there was no one in the room. Hearing laughter coming from the East Garden, Jiexusi searched for the sound and saw Wang Mian and Xing'er swinging on the swing.

    There is a saying that when a talented person meets a talented person, he always has a heart of pity for his talent; when a beautiful person meets a beautiful person, he must not cherish beauty.

    When going to bed at night, Wang Mian saw that Jiexisi had no attendants, so he sent his bookboy to Jiexisi to call.

    [1] "Mother's Birthday Poem" Empress Dowager Cixi. Poem

    The love between parents is the truest in the world,

    Tears and blood melt into the children.

    ?Dedicated to become a son,

    Poor parents all over the world!

    Wang Liang is Wang Mian's second bookboy.  The first book boy was a distant cousin of Wang Mian.  Accompanying him to Beijing for the exam was only a temporary combination.

    However, the sky fails to fulfill people's wishes, and people fail to fulfill their hearts.  Wang Mian failed the two Beijing exams, and Wang Mian wanted to stay in the capital to continue the exam.  But his cousin had reached the age of marriage, so Wang Mian had to allow him to go home and get married.

    Wang Mian lost his father when he was young, and his mother single-handedly brought him up.

    But this matter, Wang Mian has been bored in his heart, and he doesn't want to tell Xing'er.  He heard people say: A child without a father is out of balance due to lack of counseling.  Often feel lonely, anxious, and depressed, so the personality will become withdrawn.

    So, in front of outsiders, Wang Mian never mentioned his family affairs.

    In the seventh year of Yuan Yanyou [1320], Wang Mian's old mother saved some money and came to Hangzhou, the capital of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and found Dapuhua who had just won the "Jieyuan".

    The Queen Mother gave him the money and said: "Da Jieyuan, my son Wang Mian has been studying hard in Beijing for six years, and he has no one to take care of him. I have some money and want to buy a book boy for my son.  Although Yuan is young, but the old man's painstaking efforts to solve Yuan must also understand"

    Dapuhua said: "Old lady, I don't need to say more, Xiaosheng understands. I will leave for the capital in two days, and I will take you to Leji [1] right now, and choose a young man to accompany Brother Yuanzhang  Can you?"

    Leji, that is, the name of Lehu, belongs to the music department and refers to the performance unit of singing, dancing and opera.

    In ancient times, Leji belonged to the lowly family, that is, it was written on the household registration book that lowly households, people in lowly households were called lowly people, they were not allowed to live in a good house, take part in the imperial examination, not allowed to wear jade jewelry, and not allowed to have sex with good people [  Scholars, farmers, workers, merchants] get married.

    When the Queen Mother heard that Da Puhua wanted to take her to choose in person, she said happily: "Oh, Xie Yuan, how do you know what you young people like!"

    "Go, go, let's go together!" Dapuhua said, "There is a saying, 'There is no one who knows a child like a mother'. After all, this child will be considered your family in the future."

    ?Indisputable, Dapuhua brought the queen mother to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Jiaofang.

    Guan Gou took them to the orchestra building, where the performers were having lunch.  The queen mother chose among the hundreds of official prostitutes.  Most of the official prostitutes are women, but there are also some good-looking male prostitutes.

    Suddenly, a little boy with red lips and white teeth came in from the door.  He had fragrant tea and sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his mouth, and his body smelled of fragrance, making him very powdery.

    He stared at the Queen Mother with a pair of big bright eyes. He didn't know if he was thinking of his mother, or he was expecting the old lady to take him away.

    The Queen Mother went forward, looked at it carefully, knelt down, took his hand, and asked, "What's your name?"

    The little boy said: "My name is Ruoxiu."

    The Queen Mother asked again: "How old are you?"

    Ruoxiu replied: "Six years old."

    The Queen Mother said to Da Puhua: "Just him."

    Da Puhua said: "Madam, should he be younger? If you use him as a book boy, do you want him to take care of Yuanzhang, or brother Yuanzhang?"

    "We have to make do with my little money!" said the Queen Mother.

    Da Puhua said: "You don't have to redeem him, you can rent him."

    Seeing Ruoxiu holding on to her hand, the Queen Mother lovingly looked at Ruoxiu in front of her, and said, "Which child?One shot.  Promoting the mourning sound, the listener is unhappy.  ¡¯ Liu Yin asked to see Sangu, hoping to count the pillars.  If the words are repeated four times, they will be placed on the right side of the curtain to play a song.  Hong goes to Shu and returns, Whale and Luan continue, and they often hear the shape of a broken column.  It is like wind, mist and rain, and it is also lingling.  The guest listeners sighed quietly.  "This is a memoir recalling Zhengde during the Tianqi period. It not only vividly illustrates Liang Sangu's wonderful playing skills, but also correctly explains that Jiaofang declined during Wuzong's period.

    4 Metamorphosis in Jiajing

    The decline of the church led to its later integration with brothels.  After the battle of Jingnan in the early Ming Dynasty, Ming Chengzu sent the wives and daughters of Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Tie Xuan and others who opposed him to the loyal ministers of Emperor Jianwen to Jiaofang Division to serve as military prostitutes for the soldiers to ravage in turn.  This action made Jiaofang have the nature of a brothel at that time, which was an extremely barbaric behavior.  Mr. Lu Xun ruthlessly whipped this in his article "Miscellaneous Talks After Illness".

    During the reign of Emperor Wuzong, the Jiaofang declined, and outstanding artists were called into the palace, and the scattered artists gradually merged with the neighboring brothels. At this time, the Yanle Hutong area gradually became a concentrated place for brothels.  The "Jingshi Wucheng Fangxiang Hutong Collection" recorded in the Jiajing period recorded that there were already place names such as Song Girl Hutong and Fenzi (also known as Fentou) Hutong named after prostitutes near Yanle Hutong.

    ? In the early Qing Dynasty, following the Ming system, the left and right Shaowu were promoted, and the left and right siyue and cooperating officials were all nine-rank.  In the seventh year of Yongzheng (1729), it was renamed the Hesheng Department, and the provincial Fengluan and other officials.  In the seventh year of Qianlong (1742), the Music Department was set up, and the Harmony Department was included in the Music Department.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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