Qinhuai Bayan
Eight Yan's in Qinhuai, also known as Eight Yan's in Jinling, is the collective name of eight famous prostitutes on Qinhuai River in Nanjing in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, famous prostitutes came forth in large numbers in the old courtyard of Nanjing (high-grade Yanhua Lane), which was very popular. At that time, many literati recorded the appearance and charm of a large number of famous prostitutes in their notes, novels and poems. For example, the title of Jinling Baimei published in Wanli period is Qinhuai River Prostitute and ranked; Qian and his concubine Liu wrote many poems and sang with each other. They also wrote poems and recorded articles for the famous prostitutes Koubaimen, Koubaimen and Dong Xiaowan. There is "Wang Yuesheng" in Zhang Dai's Tao An Meng Yi; Huai Yu's Banqiao Miscellanies recorded the lives, personalities and talents of more than a dozen famous prostitutes such as Gu Hengbo, Dong Xiaowan, Bian Yujing, Li, Koubaimen and so on. Mao Xiang's Memories of Mei Ying 'an tells in detail the process of his acquaintance with Dong Xiaowan, his heart knot and Xiaowan's illness.
Eight outstanding prostitutes were selected from Eight Colors of Qinhuai compiled and published by Zhang Yu 1892 (18th year of Guangxu) with the help of History of Qinhuai River, which was the beginning of the name of Eight Colors of Qinhuai. These eight people are Bian Yujing, Li, Liu, Dong Qinglian (Xiaowan), Koubaimen and Chen Yuanyuan. In fact, Liu was born in Wujiang, while Dong Xiaowan and Chen Yuanyuan mainly developed in Suzhou Bantang. These three people are not closely related to Qinhuai River, but they are still selected for their beauty and legend.
Xue Tao
Xue Tao (770-832? Years), a poetess and famous prostitute in the Tang Dynasty. A word is a macro. Chang 'an (now Xi, Shaanxi) people.
His father, Xue Yun, is an official of Shu. After his father died, Xue Tao lived in Chengdu. He had contacts with celebrities at that time, such as Yuan Zhen, Niu Senru, Zhang Ji, Bai Juyi, Ling Huchu, Liu Yuxi, Zhang Hu and Duan Wenchang, and had the best friendship with Yuan Zhen. After his death, Duan Wenchang wrote an epitaph for him [1]. In his residence, there are wangjiang tower park in Chengdu, including Xue Tao Memorial Hall and Xue Taojing.
According to legend, Xue Tao is beautiful, talented and proficient in music. He wrote five volumes of Jinjiang Collection, but it has been lost. There is his poem 1 volume in Complete Tang Poetry. Later generations Zhang Pengzhou edited Xue Tao's poems. Xue Tao was also an inventor, and Xue Tao's notes (Ten-color Notes) [2] were handed down from generation to generation. The so-called Xue Tao's Notes are made by soaking and mashing rouge wood into slurry, adding mica powder and infiltrating into well water to make art paper. After the paper is air-dried, there are pine flowers, which are called "South China Classics, Xiang Rufu, Ban Guwen, Stone, Xue Tao Notes, Youjun Posts and Shaoling Poems".
Shishi Li
Li Shishi, a famous prostitute in the Northern Song Dynasty, was born in Bianjing (now Kaifeng City, Henan Province, China). Deeds are mostly found in unofficial history and novels. She was described in the novel Water Margin.
Daughter of Wang Yin, a craftsman of Qiqi Bureau in Yongqingfang, East Second Room of Bianjing. At the age of four, Wang Yin committed a crime and died in prison. His teacher was adopted by Li Lao. According to Zhang Bangji's "Memanlu", "Politics and politics, Li Shishi and Cui Niannu were prostitutes, and their names were shocked for a while". It can be seen that Li Shishi became popular during the Zheng He period (11-1118). At that time, the poet Chao Chongzhi was in his youth, and he was often invited to dinner as long as he had wine to drink. After more than ten years, Li and Cui came to the capital again. The two of them were "famous in China" and the teacher was "very well connected". People like him didn't have a chance to call the bureau, so they had to write two songs "Remembering the Past". In the poem, the living environment of Li Shishi is described as "the door invades the willow and hangs the pearl foil, and the window rolls the green gauze against the cherry blossoms", and "the willow leaves are low and the peach blossoms are welcome". His poems describe the teacher's singing and dancing skills by "watching the colorful feather dance and listening to the flowers in the garden behind Yushu". Song Huizong and poet Zhou Bangyan once met at Li Shishi's house. On one occasion, Hui Zong called him into the palace. In the first year of Jingkang (1 126), Song Qinzong ordered that he had no teacher. Before long, Bianjing fell, the Northern Song Dynasty perished, and the teacher's whereabouts were unknown. Zhang Bangji's "Mo Zhuang Man Lu" said that the teacher was living in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, "withered and unable to recover", and another said that he was living in southern Hunan or Lin 'an.
Zhang Xian's "Teacher's Order": "There is no need to return to the fan to clear the song, and the lips are smaller than the core." Yan: "It is better to be a teacher than to see all the flowers in Yingchuan." In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Dunru wrote a poem: "Don't go out of tune when singing" Yangguan ". There was only Li Furen in the previous power, and it was Li Shishi.
Yu Xuan Ji
Yu (844 -868, about 87 1 year ago), a poetess, a famous prostitute in the late Tang Dynasty, became a monk and was born in Chang 'an. Jordan was born in Huichang, Tang Wuzong for four years. His life information is scattered in the Yuan Dynasty. New Biography of Talented Talents in Tang Dynasty, Late Tang Dynasty? Huangfumei's "Three Rains", Song? Sun Guangxian's "North Dream" and other books. A famous saying before his death: "priceless treasures are easy to get, but lovers are hard to buy." It has been sung through the ages and is widely known by the world.
Su Xiaoxiao
Su Xiaoxiao (479- 502) was a famous geisha who lived in Qiantang during the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Southern Qi Dynasty in China. She often rides oil tankers and has been praised by many scholars in past dynasties. Bai Juyi and Li He in Tang Dynasty, Zhang Dai in Ming Dynasty, and Yu in modern times all wrote Su Xiaoxiao's poems. Some writers think that Su Xiaoxiao is China's version of La Traviata. Su Xiaoxiao wrote a "Song of One Heart" to express his feelings of daring to love girls. Bai Juyi said in a poem: "If you are passionate about finding a small one, the Su family is in the depths of Qingyang." Yuan Mei, a poet in Qing Dynasty, also worshipped Su Xiaoxiao very much. He once carried a personal seal with him, engraved with the words "Qiantangsu is a small villager".