Guan Zhong created the prostitute industry
In the Three Emperors era, there were classified but not detailed enough prostitutes, geishas, ??etc. However, according to historical records, Guan Zhong was an "official prostitute" controlled by the state.
The earliest government-run brothel in China was opened by Guan Zhong, the Prime Minister of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period, in the mid-seventh century BC. That is, in "Warring States Policy·Eastern Zhou Dynasty", "There are seven cities in the palace of Duke Huan of Qi, and seven hundred women." Nvlu is the place where prostitutes live, which is also the brothel in later generations. The first purpose is to satisfy the demands of young men, and the second is to protect women from good families from harassment. Guan Zhong's brothel played a greater role. The first is to increase the government's fiscal revenue through taxation, the second is to contribute to social stability, the third is to attract a large number of talents, and the fourth is to send prostitutes to fight the enemy without losing any blood. Guan Zhong's invention was quickly imitated by other countries, and official prostitution flourished. According to ancient records, the prostitution industry opened and operated by the government at that time was mainly to collect taxes. "There were many prostitutes in the secular world, so women were set up in the market to collect money from men in order to become officials." ("Book of Wei·Biography of Qiuci") The second is to alleviate the sexual hunger of idle men and business citizens in society. Because the royal aristocrats, scholar-bureaucrats, and wealthy country gentry all kept a large number of beautiful women, this resulted in an imbalance in the gender ratio between men and women in society. When the official prostitutes developed to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a system of camp prostitutes was established, which is said in "The Origin of All Things": "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to set up camp prostitutes to treat the wifeless soldiers." (See "Han Wu Foreign History") In other words, camp prostitutes provided sexual services to military officers and soldiers. But later generations also called the prostitutes in the music camp camp prostitutes. To be precise, Ying prostitute is another name for official prostitute.
In Chinese history, Guan Zhong of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period set up state-run brothels and collected taxes. It is said to be the beginning of the country's development of prostitutes. Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established the prostitution system. In the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty set up a teaching workshop to recruit singing and dancing artists to indulge in sensuality. The Tang Dynasty followed the Sui Dynasty's Jiaofang system, and the romantic emperor Tang Xuanzong expanded the Jiaofang organization, with the number of Jiaofang artists reaching 11,409. Not content with this, he also set up a pear garden, engaging in extremely debauched and shameless activities.