The tragic life of ancient actors?

Shangjiuliu: the first prime minister, the second minister, the third governor, the fourth vassal, the fifth magistrate, six towns and six stations, seven roads and seven stations, eight counties and nine houses. Secondary 96: one doctor, two golds (fortune telling), three floating lines (measuring characters), four pushes (calculating), five Chyi Chin, six calligraphy and painting, seven monks, eight monks, and nine horoscopes (observing stars to determine good or bad luck). Dirty people: Forgotten Eight (running a brothel), Two Tortoise (keeping his wife for prostitution), Three Girls (singing opera), Four Blowers (drummers), Five Big Finances (playing big tricks), Six Small Finances (playing small tricks), Seven Students (hairdressers), Eight Thieves, and Nine Ash Blowers (selling opium). Three religions and nine streams divide people into several classes. In the old society, most of the oppressed were regarded as the lowest class, and their fate was miserable.

The reason why ancient players had no status was because the thought at that time was that everything was inferior, only reading was high, and only reading was an official was a higher status. Ancient actors were worthless characters, with no fixed place and no life. Prostitutes lived by selling jokes. It is really difficult for them to sing and laugh.

Ordinary actors used to be children of innocent families. Because of poverty, they were sold as actors, teased, insulted and abused. They are at the bottom of society with prostitutes and are called professional opera actors. This word is a bit derogatory. To put it bluntly, it is singing. Advanced people can only go to Jianghu to please civilians and make a living. Actors play individuals, do things and do things with their mouths and limbs. The only thing for a player to survive is to please others, not himself. He got off the stage, washed the paint, took off his costume, looked in the mirror and looked at the face that had been painted for a long time. Some are just vicissitudes and indifference. Fame and fortune is nothing but vanity, but it is the pursuit of all players. He spent most of his life pursuing these things. He is old, leaving some vanity, but there is still a lot.