"Escort Girl" in the Song Dynasty Hotel

The official prostitute system was still prevalent in the Song Dynasty, while private prostitutes had appeared at least in the Tang Dynasty. A thousand years ago, geisha began to undertake commercial promotion obligations. In the Song Dynasty, restaurants generally used the beauty of geisha to promote their business and let geisha accompany customers to drink in the restaurant. Volume 2 of "Song Meng Elder" "Tokyo Menghua Lu" records the grand occasion of restaurants in Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty: the two corridors of the north and south patios of every restaurant in the capital were tied up with small boxes. The lights were brightly lit at night, and hundreds of people wearing heavy makeup The prostitutes gathered in the main corridor, waiting for the call of the drinkers, looking like fairies. Another example is Volume 6 of Zhou Mi's "Old Martial Arts", which records that eleven government-run restaurants such as "Lehe Tower" in Hangzhou during the Southern Song Dynasty used official prostitutes to accompany their guests: each restaurant had dozens of official prostitutes. When the drinkers went upstairs, they called them " There are famous brands. But there's a prostitute hidden in this closet, and it's not easy to deal with her. However, eighteen "city tower watchdogs" including "Xichun Tower" used private prostitutes to drink wine: there were dozens of private prostitutes in each place, all wearing mysterious clothes, chatting and laughing, and competing for beauty. Yuexia's jasmine flowers are in bloom, and they are called "sellers" when invited to the door. "Wu Mu" Volume 20 "Mengliang Lu" also records this situation: Since Ding Jing, all wine shops have tried to sell wine. Among the official prostitutes and private prostitutes, middle-class people were selected and appointed as Graceful and luxurious, with rosy face and red lips, slender jade fingers, tearful eyes, graceful singing voice and true rhyme of words, people will never tire of listening to her. Then there is a list of 11 famous official prostitutes and 22 private prostitutes. The names of these prostitutes were just sexy names of the era. You might as well copy some: official prostitutes such as Jin Sailan, Fan, Tang An'an, Ni, Pan, Meichou, Kang Sanniang, Shen Sanru, etc. Private prostitutes such as Qian Sanjie, Ji Xixi, Lu Shuangshuang, Hu, Shen, Pu Anan, Xu Shuangshuang, etc. In addition, there are some traveling private prostitutes selling songs and performing arts, who may be inferior prostitutes. Naiweng's "Capital Records of Wine Shops" also records a kind of "nunnery hotel", which means "prostitutes can entertain themselves, but they have to stay in bed in the wine pavilion." This kind of heroine who can have sex with customers in a wine shop should be a low-level private prostitute. In fact, it is similar to the situation today where nightclubs and other places use prostitutes to accompany customers in restaurants. It's nothing more than color promotion, or a combination of wine and sex; the only difference is the degree of escort.