Koubaimen was born in 1624. Her name is Mei, and white door is her word. In many early records of Koubaimen, there is no more description except that he was born in a "prostitute's home". Most of the records are of a 17-year-old Koubaimen, who came out of nowhere and married an enviable protector. As for what a prostitute's home is, no one has given an explanation. What I want to know is, can there be a prostitute's home in that era? Actor family is more like! But after my inquiry, I finally know that this is the case in prostitutes' homes.
It turned out that after the Ming Emperor Judy usurped power and ascended the throne, Zhu Laosi thought that the most vicious trick was to make the families of many former ministers become official prostitutes from generation to generation when he was in power. After the national subjugation of the Ming Dynasty, it was still this fate. Emperor Qianlong came and issued a decree to pardon these families who had been prostitutes for nearly three or four hundred years! From this perspective, the prostitute family is a knowledgeable official family. After several generations of creation, how should the women in these families be technically comprehensive? No wonder Koubaimen is probably the most prominent among the eight beauties in terms of the comprehensiveness of brothel women's skills. Kou's sisters can write poems, compose music, play songs, write books and draw pictures. It can be said that the Kou sisters have all the skills that a brothel woman should have. In Jinling at that time, the Kou family was a famous prostitute family. Qian has a poem praising: "Kou's sisters are always proud and have been lovers for eighteen years;" Today, Qinhuai fears each other, fearing that his red tears will touch his clothes. "This shows that there are many beauties in Kou's family, and Baimen is just one of them.
What is commendable is that this Kou Baimen, who was born in a prostitute's family, "slipped without learning". At best, it is straightforward and not smooth enough; Worst of all, because she is frank and simple, she is not allowed to judge others and love the wrong person. She suffered from this "frankness" all her life and even lost her life.
Jinling was shocked at her first marriage. I remember that the afternoon edition of Hangzhou Daily 1994 once published a report on the first marriage in Qiantang. I forgot the details. I only remember that it was about a millionaire who married his wife, how ostentatious the wedding was, how many luxury cars there were, and 999 roses. The reporter also criticized the report because it was too realistic and did not take into account the feelings of laid-off workers. But compared with the wedding that took place in Jinling more than 300 years ago, that kind of ostentation and extravagance is far from it.
1642, Kou Baimen was seventeen years old, walked out of the brothel and married Zhu Guobi, a prominent hero of the Nanming small court. At that time, the wedding ceremony was the biggest grand wedding in Nanjing since the Ming Dynasty. According to the rules at that time, * * * marriage must be held quietly at night. However, regardless of etiquette, Zhu Guobi carried the sedan chair of Koubaimen with heavy makeup. Five thousand soldiers stood in front of Zhujiajian, the inner bridge of Nanjing Wuding Bridge, carrying double "hi" lanterns. It was sunny all the way. Blowing all the way, the suona was deafening and the salute was empty. The wedding of a brothel singer actually surpassed that of a rich woman. The grandeur of the scene caused a sensation throughout Nanjing, and salty stories spread in the streets. In this scene, let alone the client Kou Baimen, even the prostitutes in Jinling will be moved, and there will be envy after being moved, and they will talk about the origin of this marriage in succession-
In the late spring of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Guobi, a hero, came to Kou's home in Chaodian Street under the protection of the officers. After several contacts, he left a good impression on Koubaimen.
This 30-year-old man is rich and powerful, but also polite, gentle and kind. He may not be as eloquent as those so-called gifted scholars on weekdays, and write poems into sentences casually; Unlike those enthusiastic and generous soldiers, I talk about my ambitions every day. After several conversations, Kou Baimen felt that young lord protector respected her, understood her, sympathized with her, and occasionally talked with her about poetry and painting, which made the girl feel a little confused. When Zhu Guobi proposed, Koubaimen readily agreed, without any reservation!
At least in my opinion, the then Lord protector wanted to use this wedding to show his commitment to Koubaimen. Like all the literati at that time, this wedding is also a reflection of the value of Koubaimen's "fear of Qinhuai today"; Kou Baimen thought that from now on, Qi Mei's husband could sing with his wife and accompany him, only admiring Yuanyang instead of immortals.
Zhu Guobi created such a legend. First, because she is a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, the price of Kou's family is not low. Both of them, Zhu Guobi, want to tell the whole city to show off their "achievements". And he has plenty of money, which is just a "generous" habit he has long developed.
Therefore, Koubaimen only married Jinling's first marriage, not love. Such a ostentatious wedding, Rao is well informed, and will be moved to communicate with tears, which are happy tears and snot. What she didn't expect was that marriage life should "not let him get wet with tears", and marriage life is far from as beautiful as it looks!
Most articles describing Koubaimen's married life accuse Zhu Guobi of putting Koubaimen on the shelf after marriage and then pursuing women. In fact, if I know today, why should I know? Whether Kou Baimen's original promise was based on Zhu Guobi's high officials and high salaries was super vanity. In many ways, it is not like "A Thousand Pioneers" written by Kao Gongstator and Liu Xuanqian and Dong Xiaowan. In today's words, they have been in love for several years. Qian, Gong and Mao are all romantic talents, and they are a perfect match for versatile geisha. They met and fell in love. Where can such dignitaries as Kou Baimen and Zhu Guobi know each other? Although Zhu Guobi is not ignorant, his understanding of amorous feelings is far from the above-mentioned romantic talents.
So it's no wonder that after the novelty of "flash marriage" passed, Zhu Guobi wanted to go out and find Hua Hudie, but Koubaimen didn't care, and he threw himself into the struggle of jealousy and quarrel between wives and concubines. Wang Jie, the sister of another prostitute in Qinhuai, Betty Wong, also married Zhu Guobi, but Koubaimen forgot the sisterhood of that year and tried to drive Wang Jie out of the house. Zhu Guobi is just a noble son with a good tutor, but he is not a refined person who plays chess, calligraphy and painting in his bones. He can't live in harmony with his beloved concubine like Qian, Gong Dingzi and Mao Bijiang. On the contrary, in his view, Koubaimen, who is eager to be spoiled, has lost all elegance. Why should he only pet Cooper? In his view, everything in the past is a cloud!
In terms of viability, royal dudes like Zhu Guobi are not as good as those places. 1645, the Qing army went south, Nanming perished, and the imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty was captured, threatening to enter Beijing. Zhu Guobi had already surrendered. At this time, he is under house arrest in Beijing with his family. Accustomed to aristocratic life, Zhu Guobi had nothing to do, so he had to make a living by the geisha and concubines in the seller. Fortunately, the nouveau riche of the Qing Dynasty in Beijing didn't rob them until they used money to select good "goods" from the aristocratic families of past dynasties. Of course, the ice-smart Koubaimen realized that she might be sold, which was definitely not her wish. In her view, these murderous Manchu aristocrats have not fully evolved, not to mention that she has been mixed with Jiangnan literati since she was a child, and she is deeply pregnant with national justice. So he proposed to Zhu Guobi, "If you sell a concubine, it's only a few hundred dollars ..... If you bring it back to the south, you'll get 10,000 silver in January to report it to the public."