Let's sum up the ancient people's evening pastimes, and you will find that they are actually colorful.
1. Drink and have fun
People in China have been drinking good wine since ancient times. They should drink it when they are happy, especially when they are sad. When you want to drink with the moon alone, you can call a friend to enjoy it. Farewell is to "advise you to have a glass of wine", and gathering is to "talk about Sang Ma with a glass in hand".
Everyone is idle at night, so naturally they get drunk. Especially the literati, after drinking, poetry flourished, and many famous articles were written after drinking. Like Li Bai, he has to write poems when drinking, which is full of romance. After drinking, Yang Guifei grinds ink, and Gao Lishi takes off his boots with ease.
Zhang Xu, known as the "sage of grass", often gets drunk at night and splashes ink when he is drunk. His wild calligraphy has been passed down through the ages. Chu Zhuangwang was more lovely during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the evening, he gave a banquet with ministers. As a result, his imperial concubine was molested because the light was too dim.
2. Find gay friends, visit brothels and meet beautiful women.
The gathering of the ancients in the evening was naturally with gay friends, drinking, guessing and playing chess. , still varied. The ancients were good at homosexuality. You see, Boya and Zhong Ziqi played the piano together, listened to songs together, and the story of flowing mountains and rivers has been passed down to this day. Romantic Li Bai went to Wang Lun in the evening and wrote: "Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, not as good as Wang Lun."
As for visiting brothels, the ancients liked them very much. Ancient prostitutes are not exactly the same as prostitutes today. They are all very talented women. They are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Celebrities like Li Shishi and Dong Xiaowan in history are actually prostitutes.
Therefore, ancient literati don't need to hide when visiting brothels, but they can also become good friends with women in brothels. Say the famous Li Shishi is so famous that even the Emperor of the Song Dynasty wanted to find her. What a scene this is. When Liu Yong, a famous poet who wrote Yang Liuan Morning Wind and the waning moon, died, a group of prostitutes paid for the funeral. ?
drive a vehicle at night
Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there has been an imperial examination system. In theory, everyone has the opportunity to change their destiny through reading. After studying hard for ten years at the cold window, you will surely achieve something and honor your ancestors. For some poor families, it is still a luxury to support a full-time scholar. It is the same to work during the day and study at night. Even in rich families, there are so many sage books to be read by scholars that they can't be wasted at night.
Therefore, every evening, after a day's work, under the dim candlelight or oil lamp, scholars will study hard. For poor families, in order to become famous, they should not be stingy with money. Of course, if you are too poor, you can also steal the light from the wall and drive away the snow.
4. Leave home and think about your wife and husband.
Ancient people in China didn't like to leave their hometown. After all, it was inconvenient. But in order to gain fame or be an official outside, it is impossible for a scholar to grow up with his family. In ancient times, there were no planes, high-speed trains, the Internet and, of course, no cell phones. I feel sad when I think that women at home and men outside only watch the moon at night.
Of course, educated people can also write two poems in the moonlight to talk about the suffering of lovesickness. Li Qingzhao, a famous poetess of graceful and restrained school in Song Dynasty, wrote a beautiful sentence when she missed her husband Zhao Mingcheng. Li Bai also wrote a poem about a woman who missed her husband who was fighting outside: a bright moon hung high in the capital, and all the hammers were empty. The autumn wind blew Yi Dao's voice, and every household remembered the people guarding the border.
Du Fu, a realistic poet, wrote Moonlit Night when he was alone in Chang 'an, which made his thoughts in a foreign land very painful.
Most of what is written above is men's nightlife, and ancient women, whether educated or educated, are usually not suitable for publicity outside, let alone at night. How do these women spend the night without electricity? ?
The first kind is needlework. The clothes of the ancients can't be bought in shopping malls like today. Most of them are made by women themselves at home. Therefore, evening is a good time for women to be actresses. Even if you are not married, you should practice hard, or you will be embarrassed when you get to your husband's house.
Second, you should also use your evening time to learn something that adds meaning, such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Of course, not all girls have the opportunity to learn. After all, in ancient times, women were considered virtuous without talent. Only some rich scholarly cousins in the family will let girls do this. Like those girls in the Grand View Garden of A Dream of Red Mansions, they can read and write poems. ?
The third is playing cards. This is a lady's life, which is said to have originated in the Tang Dynasty. Only those ladies have leisure time and money to participate in such a game, but women from poor families are not blessed.
Generally speaking, although there is no electricity, the nightlife of ancient people is still rich and colorful. It's just that most of this belongs to the rich, and the poor family is tired after a day's work. Nightlife is mostly about washing and sleeping, and the best entertainment is couples doing double sports.
In fact, even if there is electricity today, the nightlife will be more colorful, but most of the time diaosi, who has no money, just strolls around after dinner and then goes home to play with her mobile phone until late at night. Anyway, I basically spend every night like this. What about you?