Subject: |
A Brief Thinking on Cultural Education for Prostitutes in Brothel in Ancient China |
Author: |
CAI Feng |
Keyword: |
brothel woman, culture and education, artistic cultivation |
Newspapers published: |
Journal of China Women's University |
Issue No. original: |
2013 (6) |
Abstract: |
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In ancient China, training prostitutes in whorehouses in culture and education exhibited quite a lot of characteristics. Especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the development of capitalism commodity economy and the citizens' spiritual and cultural life being more colorful, a kind of "brothel culture" evolved gradually in society, which both paid attention to outward appearance and decoration, and to culture and arts cultivation. Under the influence of the cultural background, emerged a large number of intellectual prostitutes in brothel who were proficient in literature and history knowledge, and capable of writing poems. More than that, training prostitutes in whorehouses in culture and education has left a certain influence on the culture and education for ordinary civic women.
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