What does brothel mean?

China's 5,000-year-old civilization is soup, and the brothel culture is alive and well. Actually, referring to brothels is not accurate. In my recent study notes, it was written in black and white: "brothel" originally refers to the residence of the emperor. In Yuan Mei's Poems with the Garden in Qing Dynasty, he said: "Emperor Wu of Qi painted blue paint on the starlight building, which is called brothel", and pointed out: "It is wrong to regard brothel as brothel now." It can be seen that the brothel was originally the residence of the emperor. Therefore, during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Zhi wrote a poem: "The brothel faces the street, and the high door is closed." The earliest name of a brothel comes from the poem "Picking Mulberry on Wanshan Mountain" written by Liu Miao of Nanliang, which contains the content that "prostitutes are too worried to leave brothels". The "brothel" in the sentence is because of the misinformation of the predecessors. Since then, scholars have misrepresented brothels as "brothels"

Therefore, in the Han and Wei dynasties, the word brothel should be a compliment.

The word "brothel" originally meant "a building decorated with blue paint". It can be seen that at first, it was not a brothel, but a more gorgeous house, and sometimes it was even synonymous with giants.

For example, in Fu Xuan's Ge Yanxing, the brothel faces the alley, and the pyloric knot pivots again.

Jiang Yan's "Xizhou Qu": Hong Fei filled Xizhou, and Wang Lang went to the brothel.

But because "gorgeous house" has something to do with gorgeous and luxurious life. So unconsciously, the meaning of brothels has changed, and they began to be associated with prostitutes. After the Tang dynasty, the meaning of partial reference became a special reference, especially the place where fireworks were set off. Compared with the words Pingkang, Beili and Zhangtai, brothels are more vivid and elegant.

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