? First, are ancient "prostitutes" and "geisha" really different? According to the latest edition (the seventh edition) of Ci Hai and Modern Chinese Dictionary, this paper gives a general introduction to these two words.
? Say "Ji" first. "Ji" is pronounced as Ji, which has two meanings: one is the same as "Ji", meaning "Ji"; Skills. "For example,' geisha' in Shangshu Qin Shi has the same meaning as' skill' in Wolf Warriors, which means' skill'. The idiom "repeat the same trick" can also be said to be "repeat the same trick", which has the same meaning. Second, "ancient women who took singing and dancing as their profession", also known as "geisha", "musicians" and "musicians", all refer to ancient kabuki, that is, musicians and dancers. These people are generally called "artists" in modern times.
? Let's talk about "prostitutes". The word "prostitute" is pronounced as "Ji", which has two meanings: First, it refers to an ancient singer or dancer. In this sense, "prostitute" and "geisha" are the same, both referring to "female music", that is, "kabuki". It can be seen that artists such as singers and dancers in ancient times can be called "geisha", "musicians" and "geisha", all of which refer to women with low status who make a living by singing and dancing skills, rather than modern "prostitutes" who take sex as their profession.
? As a means of making a living, "geisha" originally had men and women, so word-makers used the word "Ziya" to write "ci", but because all the people in this line are women, they gradually evolved into "prostitutes". Since then, another meaning has been derived, that is, the second "prostitute" refers to a prostitute. For example, there is a saying in Yu Shiming's novel Yu Shiming's novel "Many Names Hang Liu Qi", which is called "I hate being a prostitute, and I am too dirty to speak". This "prostitute" refers to a "prostitute" who lives by selling herself.
? Of course, there are also some geisha who flaunt their artistry and sell themselves at the same time. For example, Zhu Ziqing wrote in "Paddle Shadow Qinhuai River": "There used to be a geisha on Qinhuai River, which was based on songs." The "geisha" here is interpreted by some people as "prostitutes who take singing as their profession", that is, singing openly and selling themselves secretly.
But in any case, the ancient "Geji" and "musician" are absolutely different from the modern concept of "prostitute".
? Second, the ancient "geisha" was a woman with "knowledge"? Ancient kabuki were all highly skilled professionals, and their "knowledge" varied from person to person and from time to time. For example, Xue Tao, a famous kabuki in Tang Dynasty, was good at poetry, and Li Shishi, a famous kabuki in Song Dynasty, was good at music.
? Another example is Bai Juyi's Pipa Trip, which depicts the image of a pipa girl as a geisha. Bai Juyi said in the preface: Yuanhe ten years, demoted to Sima, Jiujiang County. The following autumn, I sent my guests to Songpukou. At night, I heard a pipa player on the boat, listening to the sound of pipa, jingling, with the charm of Beijing dialect. Asked the pipa player, it turned out to be Chang 'an Geji. The original text said: "Ask him, Ben Chang 'an advocates women. The "worship of women" here refers to "geisha", "singer" and "musician".
? In terms of poetry, the outstanding achievements of women in the Tang Dynasty are often those geisha with low social status. The most famous is Xue Tao. At that time, Xue Tao was accompanied by famous poets such as Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, Zhang Ji, Du Mu and Liu Yuxi.
? Xue Tao was brilliant, but she never got married. She paid tribute to many scholars and celebrities in the literary world, but never married anyone. Her poems reflect her inner grievances, such as the famous catkin: "February flowers are light, and the spring breeze shakes people's clothes." His family is a heartless thing, flying north and south. " This is my wandering and helpless heart, which is implied by the catkins in spring. In his later years, Xue Tao moved to Bijifang, a suburb of Chengdu, where he built a poetry-chanting building as a place to live and recite, and dressed in a female crown (Taoist) costume to show that he was not a dusty woman and lived a lonely and quiet life.
? In the process of popularizing China's poems, the role of geisha can not be ignored. Geisha is an activist who spreads Song Ci, and her communication behavior mainly appears in the form of lyrics.
In a word, the ancient "Ci Fu" refers to artists who take singing and dancing (or acrobatics) as their profession, and can be used by both men and women. Later, I wrote "prostitute", one refers to a female artist and the other refers to a prostitute.