George Sun shared on November 27 at 12:42

I am often asked some very difficult questions. For example: Which dynasty in history would you most like to go back to? I've always been politically correct when I say that no dynasty is good now, but in fact, I have secretly imagined all kinds of possibilities in my heart. Generally speaking, ancient and clumsy people probably admired the two Han Dynasty, and most elegant people liked the Tang and Song dynasties. As for the person who intends to travel back to the Ming Dynasty, well, I think this person is somewhat suspected of adultery.

Of course, I was wicked. In the eyes of many serious and not obscene historians, the Ming Dynasty is actually very commendable. For example, the sinologist Fairbank praised the Ming Dynasty as a "complete body" of the evolution of the feudal imperial system; The British historians Cui Ruide and Mou Fuli praised the Ming Dynasty in the Cambridge History of the Ming Dynasty in China, saying: "In its later stage, the relatively stable, closed and glorious traditional Chinese culture is becoming more and more mature." I admired this sentence very much, mainly because I didn't understand it the first time, and after pondering it repeatedly, I found out that it was awesome - I said a long list and didn't seem to say anything. Therefore, in order to truly experience that era, it is best for us to avoid the verbosity of historians and directly travel back to the Ming Dynasty. We set ourselves to enter the brain of an avatar on an afternoon during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. The man woke up from his bed, and the doctor was taking his pulse...... Accidentally, two wet thread-bound books slipped from the side of the man's pillow. The doctor picked it up and took a look, one was called "The Secret Drama of the Spring Festival", and the other was "The Legend of Ruyijun", the originator of the spoof of pornographic works. The doctor frowned, stopped taking his pulse, turned his head and said to him word by word: You are suffering from kidney water depletion.

So the protagonist who has not yet officially appeared is so tragic - just kidding, the above paragraph is actually a small plot of the world novel "The Legend of Marriage in the Awakening World". This novel written in the early years of the Qing Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty is the most realistic and subtle depiction of the details of the lives of the characters in the market. In the Ming Dynasty, the reading style of the market class flourished, but the reading materials were not sage books, but yellow books that were silent. Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, there were about yellow books such as "**", "Golden Bottle Plum" and "The Biography of Ruyijun" on the pillow of ordinary family men. The taste is a little saltier and heavier, and it is a very vulgar stall reading book such as "The History of the Embroidered Couch" and "The Wonders of Lang History".

Strangely, they were all read as textbooks, and at night, the men would follow the example and have a "field exercise" with their wives and concubines according to the descriptions in the book. Always thinking about the three inches below the umbilicus is the real situation of the working people in the Ming Dynasty.

However, in the Ariake generation, the development of science can be said to be at its peak. The towering moral people shout the noble idea of "preserving heavenly principles and removing human desires" every day on the table, but what is widely circulated among the people is **, room art and all kinds of salty books. In addition to the boudoirs of ordinary people, the brightly lit city streets of the Ming Dynasty were lined with brothels and songs. Compared with the great light on the table, doesn't the Ming Dynasty have a "two-skin face"? On the surface, the bright skin is written with the benevolence and morality of Confucius and Mencius, but when the skin is torn off, it is full of male thieves and female prostitutes. Stop for now. Isn't it too indignant and too "Lu Xun" to come to such a conclusion in a hurry? The benevolence and morality pretended to be on the table certainly seem hypocritical, but which dynasty and which generation is not the case? Who can rule such a vast country without pretending, and those who do not pretend in history will soon become dirt. Pretending on the surface is to better not pretend in private, and smart people are very open to this. Therefore, in terms of the "prostitution" of secular life, the wise Ming Dynasty has collected the masterpieces of the ancients, and there are often inventions and creations that are out of the blue.

It is often said that if there is something good at the top, it will be prosperous at the bottom. The reason why the folk pornographic culture of the Ming Dynasty was so developed had a lot to do with the advocacy of the upper class rulers to "lead by example". Look at the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, since Taizu, basically one is more lustful than the other, and one is more obscene than the other. Wuzong Zhu Houzhao built a leopard room in the west garden of the capital for lewd pleasure, with more than 200 rooms, which is really the most magnificent "heaven and earth" in history. Later, Sejong Zhu Houxi, who was addicted to aphrodisiacs during his reign, played "Thousand People Chop" after taking the medicine, and actually played for more than 20 years without going to court. His son Muzong Zhu Zaiyuan, his grandson Shenzong Zhu Yijun and his great-grandson Guangzong Zhu Changluo all inherited the glorious tradition of their ancestors, basically drinking aphrodisiacs as boiling water, and spent every day in the "Haitian Feast". As far as the wind can see, even the great medical work "Compendium of Materia Medica" at that time is about to become an aphrodisiac encyclopedia, and nearly half of the drugs recorded in it have effects similar to Viagra.

The erotic Ming Dynasty was a philosopher's country that emphasized "ruling the world with filial piety", but the view of moralists who regarded the monarch and his ministers as father and son made an excellent excuse for the courtiers to emulate the emperor's lewd life. Could it be that Lao Tzu is promiscuous, but his son is not promiscuous? The practice of taking aphrodisiacs and ** thus became popular among the courtiers. Emphasizing advanced nature during the day and advanced sex at night, this tradition of Chinese officials probably began to rise in the Ming Dynasty. The most powerful person is Yan Song, the powerful minister of Jiajing, who said in the Ming Dynasty that the only furniture placed in his bedroom was a bunch of naked women, who played from night to morning, and even spit and washed when he got up. This is not just lewdness, but lewdness to the depths, almost perverted. Monarch father ** is so, parents and officials ** are like this, may I ask the Shengdou Xiaomin who has been ruled and taught by them all day long and wants not to wade into the troubled waters of eroticism and vulgarity, is it possible? The matter of the bed was originally promoted by the government from top to bottom, and the people who had no freedom were stipulated that this was not allowed, that was not allowed, only allowed to go to bed, no wonder Li Yu, a talented man in the late Ming Dynasty, said "The world is really happy, count it, and count the room" This wise saying.

It can be said that the rulers of the Ming Dynasty built a pyramid of desire for the world, and money and flesh are the bricks and stones that fill it. But this pyramid of desire, which runs through the entire Ming society, is not only "a manifestation of the rulers' absurdity and decay" as the traditional view of history claims, but in fact, it is also a symbol of their political wisdom. In addition to pleasure, the word "lewdness" was indeed a means to govern the country and maintain social stability in the Ming Dynasty. Since ancient times, the rebels who expose the rod are often not those who are starving to death, but the ** silk who has eaten enough and has nowhere to vent their excess energy.

In modern times, a great man inspected the peasant ** movement in Hunan and came to the conclusion that the most revolutionary and rebellious people were not poor ghosts, but social idlers with excessive male hormone secretion. If you think backwards and want to eliminate the rebels to the greatest extent, there is no better way to give a home to the excess hormones that overflow in society. Obscene culture and erotic industry are naturally the best places to go. For the "prostitution" of the Ming Dynasty, the sinologist Gao Luopei's explanation is quite insightful. He believes that the proliferation of so-called sex and erotic novels is actually a kind of secular morality that is highly consistent with the social form of the time.

In "The Illustrated Examination of Secret Dramas", Gao Luopei wrote that the women of the Ming Dynasty lived a simple and hard life, "supervising rice and salt, jewelry and powder makeup, and strings and teeth, and they enjoyed having sex happily." Therefore, the standard of a good man at that time was "every wife must wait for him." In a polygamous society, the only way to make women happy and families harmonious is to expect men to be diligent in "that aspect".

Therefore, obscene words maintain the stability of the family in a sense. The so-called self-cultivation, family, governance, and peace in the world, first make the little things in the family harmonious, which is the first step in governing the country and the world. Moreover, for those who do not live in harmony with their husbands and wives, the Ming Dynasty officials built countless brothels and green buildings. For example, at that time, there were many places in Nanjing, a first-tier city, with "3,000 households in general". There are not only the most vulgar meat sellers, but also slightly high-grade emotional escorts, chats, and poems and songs. All kinds of services are readily available, and it is called "the fairy capital of the desire world" by the people of the time. Once the strong men and angry young people enter, the love of their children will be long, and they will immediately become heroic and short of breath. The self-defined "harmonious and prosperous era" of the Ming Dynasty is probably this kind of dream-like, drunken and dreamy fairyland of desire.

Perhaps, as the Cambridge History of the Ming Dynasty of China says, feudal rule has reached maturity and perfection in the Ming Dynasty. On the face, he rules the world with filial piety, but the inside rules the world with prostitution. This is indeed a form of political wisdom, but it is not great wisdom. Otherwise, why did the Ming Dynasty, which had been in power for more than 270 years, fall overnight? There is a poem in "Golden Vase Plum" that says it well: "Twenty-eight beautiful people are like crisps, and they kill fools with swords at their waists." Although I don't see anyone's head falling, I secretly teach the monarch to have dry bone marrow. After all, everything built by desire is illusory, and a kind of rule maintained by desire, its "exhaustion and death" may be just around the corner. (Editor in charge: Wang Jing)