Just like the rich nowadays, they like to buy luxury cars and yachts, even like the local tyrants in the Middle East keep lions and tigers at home to show off their wealth. The rich want what others have, and what is the rarest, they want to possess. In a word, it is rare and special to show off wealth.
as people in the Tang dynasty, there would be no cruise ships and luxury cars, but there would still be some strange and rare things, which made them show off their wealth? Magic weapon? It shows that you are different and stand out from the crowd. Kunlun slave, Silla maidservant and Bodhisattva Man have become the hottest show off wealth in your circle by virtue of their rare value? Sambo? .
Kunlun slave
This Kunlun is not the other Kunlun, so you don't have to be surprised. No matter how rich the Tang Dynasty aristocrats are, they are not qualified to take the legendary immortals of Kunlun as slaves.
Kunlun slaves are actually slaves sold to Chang 'an by traffickers, and most of these slaves come from the Western Regions or the aborigines in Southeast Asia and South Asia. Because of their dark skin color, they are mistaken for black people who came to the Tang Dynasty from the Middle East or Africa through the Western Regions, so they are called Kunlun slaves.
because in the Tang dynasty, Chang' an was already the capital of the world. After the Zhenguan rule, Chang' an was a symbol of universal worship. Tourists and ships of all colors and different regions gathered in Chang' an. Naturally, some lawless elements were mixed among them. They caught the population through tribes with low civilization or even uncivilized, and then trained them and sold them to the nobles in Chang' an as servants and maids.
Because these people are caught in Chang 'an, there will be no relatives except buying his host's house. Whether they live or die depends on the host's mood. Of course, these people will work hard. Moreover, when traffickers train and train them, they also choose the best batch to sell to the nobles, which leads to the difficulty of finding a good Kunlun slave, which makes the nobles proud of having a Kunlun slave at home.
Silla Maid
Both Kunlun slaves and Silla Maid pointed out where these people came from. Silla in the Tang Dynasty refers to today's Korean peninsula. Looking at today's Korean young ladies, we can know how popular Silla maidservants were among the nobles in the Tang Dynasty.
during the prosperous period of the Tang dynasty, Chang' an was a world-famous international metropolis, which naturally attracted many small countries to exchange and study, paying tribute. Silla, Japan, Vietnam and Ryukyu around the Tang dynasty were all vassal countries of the Tang dynasty. There are not many exotic treasures presented to the Tang Emperor, among which Silla Maid can be said to be one of them. Silla elementary school didn't have much treasure to pay tribute to, so it selected a group of excellent women to pay tribute to Datang in China, and these women slowly circulated among the nobles. Because Silla handmaids were mostly supple and clever, fair-skinned, with round faces, they were born beauties and were very popular with the nobles after professional training.
However, the living conditions of Silla maidservants are not good. Apart from paying tribute from the royal family, some lawless elements and pirates realized their interests and went to the Korean peninsula to rob the commoners. After training, they sold them to the Central Plains and even overseas, and this situation continued until the Ming Dynasty.
Liu Bowen, the first adviser of Daming, was once famous for his intelligence and beauty. Silla maid? Write a poem: My daughter will wear a needle before she starts, and she will go to Korea to learn phonetics. Teach the new partridge song, a quasi straight daughter. ?
Bodhisattva Man
When I saw the words Bodhisattva Man, the first thing that came to my mind was Wen Tingyun's "Bodhisattva Man?" "The hills overlap and the gold disappears":
The hills overlap and the gold disappears, and the clouds want to spend the fragrant cheeks and snow. Too lazy to paint a moth eyebrow, too late to make up and wash. Look in the mirror before and after the flowers, and the flowers face each other. The new post is embroidered with Luo Luo, and both are golden partridges.
This poem was written in the late period of Tang Xuanzong, and Tang Xuanzong has a special liking for the epigraph Bodhisattva Man. At this time, a group of women from the southeast Asian peninsula were sent to the palace, all of whom were good at singing and dancing. According to Duyang Miscellany, in the early and middle years, the female barbarian country paid tribute to the dragon rhinoceros and Mingxia brocade, and its people were crowned with gold crowns and covered with tassels, so it was called it? Bodhisattva man? . At that time, I advocated Excellence and sang songs? Bodhisattva Manqu? , the teachers of the law also tend to effect their words. ?
these strange-looking women who are good at singing and dancing suddenly attracted the rich and powerful people in Chang' an and gave them nice names? Bodhisattva man? .
At the same time, Bodhisattva Man, together with Kunlun slaves and Silla maidservants, became the trend of the powerful people vying for possession at that time.