Hello!
who were the Tang poets who influenced the value of prostitutes in Chang' an? Not Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi, but Cui Ya in the middle Tang Dynasty.
According to the incomplete literature records, Cui Ya's life is marked by two points:
First, his poems can directly affect the fluctuation of prostitutes' value in Chang 'an at that time;
Second, his marriage tragedy is deplorable.
Cui Ya's poems affect the value of prostitutes, which are recorded in Fan Gang's Friends in Yunxi and Xin Wenfang's Biography of Tang Caizi in the Five Dynasties. The Biography of Talented Talents in the Tang Dynasty says that "every poem is advocated, and its value will increase suddenly if it is praised, and it will be swept away if it is destroyed". There are more vivid examples in Yunxi Friendship.
There was a prostitute with dark skin who didn't wait on Cui Ya well, so he wrote the following two poems to describe her:
"Whoever gets Su Fangmu (blindly using Chinese medicine can cure postpartum asthma and dying of blackness) is still greedy for tortoise shells. I was pregnant for ten months and gave birth to Kunlun. "
"The cloth robe is covered with a coat and burned with felt, and the paper is patched with hemp and string. Even more wearing a pair of leather shoes, I went out on the ladder and couch. "
I wonder, after reading these two poems, in a country with the aesthetic rule of "one white covers a hundred ugliness", there must be few people who will go to her for entertainment. Her business, naturally, can't go on.
Once, a prostitute named Li Duanduan offended Cui Ya somehow, so he wrote her a poem:
"At dusk, I don't know what to do without saying anything, but my nose is like a smoke window and my ears are like a clang. Only the ivory comb was inserted, and Kunlun Mountain was born last month. "
When Li Duanduan saw this poem, he was "worried like a disease". Of course, she was not willing to go to with ever fewer chariots and horses at her door, so she immediately conducted public relations: when she saw Cui Ya and Zhang Hu drinking and having fun in other brothels, she waited by the roadside. When they approached, she bowed down to the big gift and asked each other: "I have been waiting for Saburo and Liulang, and I beg my two brothers to have pity on my little sister." In this way, of course, Cui Ya couldn't speak ill of her any more, so he wrote her a poem that said good things again. As a result, a group of wealthy businessmen, dajia, rushed to buy sex.
It is obvious that Cui Ya is a sex figure in the porn industry in Chang 'an. The conclusion of Yunxi Youyi is: "The Red Chamber thinks prostitutes are happy, and they are all afraid of their ridicule."
such a dissolute poet could not grasp his marriage and happiness, and finally ended in misery.
Cui's wife, Yong Shi, is the daughter of Yangzhou General School (an officer of the company commander). She looks and behaves quite well, and her husband and wife are also very loving. Because Cui Ya is famous, Yong's family treats him well and presents him richly. But Cui Ya is not polite, often showing disrespect to his father-in-law, calling him "Yong Lao". After a long time, Yong Lao got bored and no longer tolerated. Once he drew his sword, called his daughter, and said to Cui Ya, "I'm from Heshuo, and I only know how to ride with bows and arrows. I gave birth to a daughter, so I should marry a soldier. I only married my little girl to you because I admire the character of a scholar. After my daughter left you, she couldn't marry another man, so she had to become a monk. If you don't promise, I have to kill her! " At that time, Cui's wife was asked to cut her hair and become a nun. Cui Ya wept bitterly, expressing remorse, but the General School of Harmony had not allowed him to say anything. In desperation, Cui Ya had to write a farewell poem to his wife with tears in his eyes:
"The spring in the upper reaches of the dragon falls apart, and my heartbroken sobs are unbearable. Heng E went to the palace one day, and the Wuxia Qianqiu blank cloud. "
After that, for a long time, at the post station and the dock, people who often broke up and left sang this poem with deep affection, and the long song was crying and lingering.
In addition to the above two stories, Cui Ya also has a heroic side. After he came last with Zhang Hu, he spent a long time in the Jianghuai area, drinking wildly, taunting his contemporaries and calling himself a hero. After being drunk once, he wrote a poem "Chivalrous Man":
"There are three feet of snow on Taihang Mountain and three feet of iron in Cui Ya's sleeve. Once you meet a willing heart, go out and say goodbye to your wife and children. "
This poem was very popular with people at that time, and many people would recite it. After reading it, many people admired it, and even hosted a banquet in honor of Cui Ya.
I hope it helps you.