How did Xuanzong, the ancient emperor who banned pornography and illegal publications, order the ban on "official prostitutes"

The official prostitute system in the Tang Dynasty had a great influence on later generations, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty that this system was banned, which led to the new trend of the anti-prostitution movement in ancient China.

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, prostitutes were inevitable. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a monk, not only couldn't help it, but also strongly advocated that Jiao Fang should be upgraded to "Jiao Fangsi" in the Ming Dynasty on the basis of the official prostitute system in the Tang and Song Dynasties, under the Ministry of Rites, in charge of education and foreign affairs.

According to Jiang's poems about Rongcheng in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang built 14 high-end restaurants such as light smoke and light powder along the Qinhuai River in the south of Nanjing. This is the 14th floor of the Spring Breeze on Qinhuai River, a famous "red light district" in Ming Dynasty. These hotels were "official prostitutes' houses" in the Ming Dynasty, which were previously run by sex workers. Urge them to work as soon as possible. Because of the advocacy of * * * and the leadership of officials, sexual consumption really boosted "domestic demand" in the early Ming Dynasty, and * * * was indispensable for private parties, and "escort girls" were also allowed to hold public banquets.

The development of official prostitutes soon caused many problems, and the social demand for "banning prostitution" was strong. Zhu Zhanji, the great-grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, ordered the banning of official prostitutes, forbidding officials to set foot in the red light district, and set off a "movement against prostitution" in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zhanji's move is an important event in the history of banning prostitution in China, but there are policies on the top and countermeasures on the bottom. There are no official prostitutes and private prostitutes. Some rich people are not restricted by this "prohibition of prostitution" at all, and they have accumulated domestic prostitutes. Official prostitutes are not backward, private prostitutes appear in large numbers, and there are many private prostitutes who were called "private prostitutes" at that time.

Zhu Zhanji was only emperor of 1 1 year before and after, and died at the age of 38. After that, the management of prostitution was relaxed. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many brothels and restaurants on both sides of Qinhuai River in Nanjing, which became the center of sex industry in China at that time.

Banqiao Miscellanies written by A Qing Huai Yu is actually a record of sexual consumption of literati, students and officials in the red light district at that time. The so-called "Qinhuai Eight Flowers" are eight sex workers on the Qinhuai River, all of whom appeared in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.