Lin Daiyu was a famous prostitute in Shanghai at the turn of the 19th and 2th centuries. Her specific name, date of birth and death, and place of birth are unknown. At the end of the 19th century, her career reached its peak, and she was as red and purple in Shanghai as the first lady on earth in Beijing today. She has a group of regulars, including literati, celebrities, wealthy businessmen, etc.
There is a learned scholar who comes and goes with endless ghosts. Wang Heng, the magistrate of Nanhui County, was fascinated by her beauty and spent huge sums of money to build a beautiful house for her, which made a sensation. In 1897, Shanghai Game Newspaper listed her as one of the four largest prostitutes in Shanghai. In addition, Lin Daiyu became a prostitute, a prostitute, and a prostitute again and again. She made more than 2 statistics in her life. Among them, it is said that only formal marriage is as many as 17 times! Probably the most married woman in China's history. But look at her ending, it's sad and cold.
An overview of prostitutes in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty
In the late Qing Dynasty, before prostitutes became fashionable in that luxurious, dissolute and filthy old Shanghai, popular tabloids often commented on them and became the vane of fashion. But on the other hand, it also shows the extent to which they are not ashamed and openly participate in urban life. Moreover, there were many large-scale beauty contests in Shanghai at that time, so naturally it was only for prostitutes, and good women were not within the scope.
one of the important aspects of high-class prostitutes' self-presentation is to choose flower names. Some prostitutes will keep their flower names after they become popular. Prostitutes have many important careers: first enter a brothel, change places, start their own businesses, or be concubines for a while and then come back as prostitutes; At this time, they will give themselves new names like men in the upper class. For example, in the 192s, Shanghai prostitute Xiao Linglong and Lao Qi moved to Tianjin and changed her name to Ai Wen. Back in Shanghai, I chose Nian Hong as my name. Lin Daiyu used the name of Cao Xueqin's frail and ill-tempered heroine, a dream of red mansions in the Qing Dynasty. There is also a famous prostitute named Hu Baoyu, whose name is also from a dream of red mansions. In the old age of Lin Daiyu, a young prostitute named Lin Daiyu appeared on the beach. She was Lin Daiyu. At that time, the feature film-The First Minister of China, Yan Ruisheng-was adapted from the social news that caused a sensation in Shanghai in 192, including Xiao Lin Daiyu.
The smoky alleys in Shanghai are concentrated in the famous Fuzhou Road, that is, the Fourth Road area. In the year of Songbin Suo Hua, Wang Tao said that Shanghai is a prosperous place. In the center of the renewed frontier, there are groups of people. They are all extremely beautiful and coquettish. They all think that they are unparalleled and they can be fascinated by laughter. The brothels on the fourth road are first-class, such as Chang Santangzi, and famous prostitutes are everywhere; It is a kind of medium. Next is Bacon Village. Three famous prostitutes in Changtangzi, including Lin Daiyu, Bei Jinyu, Hua, and so on. They were all elected presidents of Guo Hua University.
judging from their existing photos, they are actually not first-class beauties. But these people are excellent at cooking. However, in a literary work, Lin Daiyu's beauty is highly regarded: she is seventeen or eighteen years old, perm her hair, wear earrings, pink eyebrows, a pair of big eyes with flowing water waves, a pair of goose eggs showing her face, sexy red lips, a pink silk cheongsam, a three-curve figure, a low-cut jacket, a pair of jade legs, slender and delicate, white and attractive. In the summer of the fifth son of Guangxu, there were 16 prostitutes in Shanghai. The eighth is Lin Daiyu, the owner of Jiangxian Temple. His comments are: deliberately lingering, affectionate, smiling like a flower, in which God is in it, winning with rhyme.
Prostitutes' golden land activities, Tasmania Garden during the day and the fourth road at night. When people write, there are two places where idle people gather in Shanghai. The place where they gather during the day is called Taste Garden, and the place where they gather at night is called No.4 Road. Therefore, it is a long way to taste the tea in the garden and the wine in the four roads. This is a place where prostitutes in Shanghai compete for beauty and make a splash. Every Sunday, when guests come to the west, everyone in the brothel is called Gu Jie. In the 199s, famous prostitutes such as Lin Daiyu, Jin Xiaobao, Lu Lanfen and Zhang Shuyu. Be the first to arrive every day. Lin Daiyu and these three people are listed as four donkey kong in the world of flowers. This is the nickname given to them by famous writers. The reason why it got its name is that after the four people arrived, they each took a seat at the round table that entered the door. If the Buddhist has four King Kong guarding the city gate, the view is particularly strong.
In the years after 1897, every Sunday, Game Newspaper, sponsored by Li Boyuan who introduced and commented on prostitutes, printed 4 to 5 copies and presented them to Bird. Sometimes I send photos of prostitutes. This increased the interest of tourists. At that time, the fashion feature of Shanghai was that men looked at women and women looked at prostitutes. Prostitutes play the role of fashion models. When people look at prostitutes, they judge clothes as well as people.
A series of related scenes are specially designed, which closely link the carriage with prostitutes, amusement facilities, streets, urban areas, parks and many other factors, and weave a visual picture of Shanghai prostitutes wandering around the urban area in a western open carriage: the carriage is not more prosperous than this town, and the number of prostitutes is second to none in this town. Therefore, punch in every day on May 6th, and you can go to a temple where Jing has friends or prostitutes. Liu Yin is one of the scenic spots in Hujiang. This picture juxtaposes the prosperity of horse-drawn carriages with a large number of prostitutes, suggesting that Shanghai prostitutes like to ride horse-drawn carriages best, including Lin Daiyu, Jin Xiaobao, Lu Lanfen and Zhang Shuyu. They are compared to the three major companies, namely Daotai, Heir and Fan, collectively known as Yue.
Prostitutes and good friends are common features in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty, and they are also widely circulated gossip news. Lin Daiyu and Zhao Xiaolian, Wulin figures in Tianxian Tea Garden, were caught by a riding seal in Yu Garden and Bird Garden, and they were caught in the patrol room. Described the extramarital affair between Lin and Zhao: Every time in the dead of night, they would change their minds and go to Zhao Ling to let us have sex again. Last night, I took the groom Fu Yuan and Zhao Ling's family in a carriage and boarded the car hand in hand, flying in Yu and Zhang Second Hospital. The carriage has become an important prop for derailment, which is easily reminiscent of the description of Shen Xiaohong riding a carriage in Dianshizhai Pictorial.
As for Zhi Zhu's Ci in Shanghai, there is a saying that when dressed as a groom, the best one is Si donkey kong, which refers to Zhang Shuyu's prostitute who dressed as a groom in Si donkey kong and was famous in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty. She wears such strange clothes because she likes to ride in a carriage. In Wu Wei's biography written by Hu Baoyu, a famous prostitute in Shanghai, it was also pointed out that the cable car started from Zhang Shuyu and was made in foreign countries, and all the wheels were nickel-plated. Before the bus arrives,
some celebrities want to build a cemetery for famous prostitutes who have no relatives and friends to claim, so that they can get a decent resting place; It can also be used by guests, confidants and lovers before their death. They came to donkey kong and entrusted Lin Daiyu to collect money for the cemetery, and asked three other people, King Kong, to help them. Four women donated 1,6 Hua Zhong books, and each of them was responsible for distributing 4 books in brothels and collecting them at the end of the month. Lin Daiyu raised 3 yuan on the first night, and both prostitutes and clients donated money. . Soon, Lin Daiyu privately shipped all her belongings back to Shanghai to prepare for divorce. At the same time, Lin also worked with Qiu's tailors and relatives. Qiu Lin wanted to smoke opium, but found that she was addicted to smoking, but her lust was not killed, and she still kept her original self. Qiu locked her up, and then she bribed the guards and fled back to Shanghai. All the jewels in her collection are furniture shipped from Qiu to Shanghai, and now she sits down and enjoys everything.
Some people commented that some prostitutes aim at customers' money pockets, pretending to fall in love at first sight and serving them with charm and flattery. They shake the hearts of male salespeople and spend money like water; O
in 195, Lin Daiyu was nearly 4 years old. At that time, Duan Fang, an important official in the Qing court and one of the five ministers who went abroad through Shanghai, recruited Lin to Hangyuan. When he met her, he loved her very much and wanted to be a concubine. Lin almost took him to his home to entertain him. However, Duan Fang was warned by the left and the right and tried to dissuade him, so he regretted giving up. Lin was disappointed. It is said that she said at that time that she hoped that when she was tempted, she would use it to satisfy her desire.
In a series of relationships with men, Lin Daiyu either prevented men from being filial, or was unfaithful to friends, scheming and scheming. It was only when protecting the leader of the Boxer Rebellion that she was praised by biographers as the only good thing she did in her life.
In the early years of the Republic of China, Lin Daiyu, who was not young, took a fancy to the actress Long Xiaoyun, gave her full support, provided her with food and clothing, and asked her teacher to teach her Chinese and English. He also came forward to run for Jiangsu Dushuai, and served as an idle post for a long time. However, the army staff rose up and attacked him, saying that his elder sister was a prostitute, which caused Long to lose his job again. Long Xiaoyun turned to another prostitute and even sold Lin Daiyu. This is a great regret of Lin; Life.
In p>1914, a group of elderly prostitutes borrowed Darwinian language to set up the brothel evolution group. The two main activists of this organization are Zhang Manjun and Zhu Ruchun. It is said that Zhang Manjun loves reading revolutionary newspapers and periodicals, and is the spokesman of patriotic thoughts of early brothel women. She is famous for making public speeches. At that time, it was a fashion for prostitutes to wear pants printed with national flags. Zhang's speech condemned this fashion, pointing out that so many soldiers and heroes sacrificed their lives for this national flag, but now they wear it on their pants. Isn't it a joke that foreigners don't like Chinese people?
In the seventh year of the Republic of China, Lin Daiyu was finally revoked her license as a prostitute. Wang, the former prime minister of Shanghai Flower Biography, paid great attention to it and sent a cover advertisement with 16 words, saying that Lin Daiyu, the owner of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, was old and should sing another string song, which attracted the attention of newspaper readers. Because Shanghai brothels have never advertised in newspapers and magazines, thanks to Mr. Wang's efforts, Lao Lin has indeed experienced a lot of prostitution.
On the eve of the May 4th Movement in Beijing in p>1919, 19 prostitutes in Shanghai organized a publicity group and asked Lin Daiyu to be their big brother or uncle. During the May 4th demonstration, May 9th was National Shame Day. The brothel was closed for one day to commemorate it. Prostitutes said that they only use domestic products. At the beginning of June, brothels were closed again, and prostitutes went on strike with all citizens and students until mid-June.
From the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement, caring about the fate of the country has almost become a necessity for prostitutes. According to the report from 755 to 79 in 1919, a famous prostitute was not familiar with patriotism and compatriots because of her illiteracy. After the May 4th Movement, the famous prostitute Bing stopped entertaining Japanese clients. When one of her regulars invited the Japanese to her prostitute Hua San's house, she went out to watch the opera, and the servant had to order some food in a nearby restaurant. Lin Daiyu sent a sister to help entertain.
There is another saying that Lin Daiyu once had syphilis, so her eyebrows fell off. So she invented a broadsword eyebrow and it became popular among prostitutes and even ordinary women.
One day after the sun and the moon, in a shabby attic upstairs of Daguang Lisheng Art Company in Nanjing Road, Shanghai, a famous old woman shrank to her hospital bed and died miserably. After she died, no one came to collect the body. But who would know that this skinny old woman is actually a famous prostitute in Shanghai, Lin Daiyu. Lin Daiyu's death shows how tragic Prost's fate is.