Where does the Yanzhigou Prostitute Tombs Ancient Tombs Group belong?

The Rougegou Prostitute Tombs Ancient Tombs Group is a cultural tourist attraction.

In the vast forest and deep in the mountains, there are still cemeteries built for prostitutes in the late Qing Dynasty, commonly known as "prostitute graves".

Follow the ditch system of Rouge Valley and go northwest to the 209 National Highway signpost 719. At the fork in the road, there is a sign of "Girl's Tomb". Follow the sign and drive along the fork for more than 400 meters and you will arrive. cemetery. The tourism department is building an antique-style house here. A wall was built along the hillside in the courtyard, with the "Picture of a Courtesan" carved on it: a slender and handsome Jiangnan girl with flowing hair, her head raised and her eyes raised, which represents the longing for the dream of gold and the sorrow for the tragic fate.

On the hillside, there are tall and graceful Pinus sylvestris, wearing black skirts, yellow clothes and green crowns. Their roots are connected and their branches are close to each other. The breeze blows and the pine branches sway, exuding a sweet fragrance. Under the shade of the trees, the soft humus is covered with green and short Yageda seedlings, boundless, with strings of Yageda, called "Red Beans from the North". It was said by Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty that "Red beans grow from the South". The poem evolved. In the forest, boards were placed on the original site and tied with tenon and tenon joints to form a 350-meter-wide fence. The pits and uneven tombs in the fence were the tombs of prostitutes. There is no tombstone marker and no name. "Under the pits are tombs," so people chose to walk on high places and walked on winding paths. In the northeast corner of the cemetery, two coffins were pried open. The two coffins were about two meters apart. They were almost the same standard, about 40 centimeters wide and 180 centimeters long. They looked like narrow wooden boxes, with the slender bodies of courtesans scattered around. Bones. The coffin boards were ordinary thin boards that had rotted and were scattered around randomly. Only two tombs of prostitutes were robbed, which shows that the tomb robbers found nothing. If the prostitutes were covered with ornaments and buried with gold and silver, and the tomb robbers gained a lot, it is possible that the cemetery here has been turned upside down and looted. Therefore, after more than a hundred years, it can still maintain its original shape.

With the gold rush in the 1880s, many domestic and foreign prostitutes poured into Rouge Valley. In 1888, Li Jinyong came to Yanzhigou to open a gold mine and recruited a large number of prostitutes from Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places in the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, there were about 30 theaters, which were very large, and there were also actresses from Japan, Russia and other countries. After many prostitutes remove their makeup every day, the bathing water flows into the Jingou River. A layer of rouge floats on the water, and the fragrance floats for miles. This is also another legend about how "Rouge Valley" got its name. They were held in high esteem by thousands of miners and cared for in every possible way. It is also fashionable among desert and mine officials to frequent brothels, and some even take prostitutes as concubines. Translator Wei Zhaokang paid for a Japanese concubine named Ayu Sang to be his concubine. The prostitutes of Rougegou brought a touch of tenderness to the cold and desolate Mohe River. Many of them died of illness here, which won Li Jinyong's sympathy and designated a cemetery to bury the Rouge girls who were far away from their relatives' homeland. There are also abnormal deaths. Two Tsarist Russian businessmen went to the "Baihua Building" and got into a jealous fight with miner Liu Chuang and others. Many women in the building tried to persuade them, but they were killed by wooden sticks flying from the Russian businessmen. After the General Office found out the reason, he severely punished the Russian businessmen and immediately decided to hold a grand funeral for the two prostitutes. The prostitutes from all the courtyards came out to see their sisters off, and the miners almost stopped working to help with the funeral.

The special -, who is criticized and criticized by the world, accompanied the miners through the rise and fall of Rougegou. They paid the price with their lives, and their bones were buried in the forest and deep mountains. Although there is no incense or epitaph, it has attracted many explorers.