But how open were the Tang people?
The social atmosphere in the Tang Dynasty can start with clothing. Women's clothes in the Tang Dynasty were mostly thin and translucent, which was very contrary to the common sense of feudal society.
In fact, this is mainly due to the social atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty.
Whether in the palace or in the folk, the status of women is relatively high, reaching its peak when Wu Zetian was the emperor alone.
There is a story in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty: once, Tang Gaozong and Wuhou held a family dinner. Their favorite little daughter Princess Taiping was dressed in a purple shirt, a jade belt around her waist, a towel folded with soap, dressed as a man, singing and dancing, with extraordinary bearing and full of domineering. Gaozong asked her with a smile: "Girls can't be military attache, so why do you dress like this?" As can be seen from Tang Gaozong's reaction, he is not disgusted with Princess Taiping's practice.
From the murals unearthed in the tombs of the Tang Dynasty, we can also find pictures of some maids dressed in men's clothes, which shows that it was a social fashion for women to wear men's clothes every day at that time.
Many historical books about the Tang Dynasty show that the freedom of love and marriage was not greatly restricted in the Tang Dynasty, and a woman with a dead husband could remarry without being threatened by public opinion.
Take Yang Yuhuan and Wu Zetian as examples.
Yang Yuhuan was originally the daughter-in-law of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and later became the favorite Yang Guifei of Emperor Xuanzong; Wu Zetian was originally the daughter-in-law of Emperor Taizong, and later became the daughter-in-law of Emperor Taizong's son.
The openness of the Tang Dynasty can be said to be beyond the compliment of modern people.
Because this is in court? Open? , leading to the prevalence of lewdness in the Tang Dynasty. The singer's singing skills are well known? .
The Tang Dynasty was the prosperous period of ancient prostitution, with the formation of the system of teaching prostitutes and the prosperity of palace prostitutes.
According to records, at the beginning of Emperor Taizong, there were 3,000 ladies-in-waiting, but by the time of Emperor Xuanzong? There were 8,000 ladies in the court of the late emperor? 、? There are other women in his court, three thousand stunning beauties? .
When Xuanzong was in Chang 'an, there were 11,409 registered prostitutes in Jiaofang. Among them, Yichun court has the highest level of palace prostitutes, so it is called "Palace Prostitute" because it often performs for the emperor. My wife? .
In the Tang Dynasty, no matter the official welcoming ceremony or banquet ceremony, or the gathering of officials to recite poems and travel around the mountains, the hospitality of official prostitutes was indispensable. Looking at the leopard in the tube? .
The bearing of the Tang dynasty regime
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Bai Juyi was a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. When he was a captain in zhouzhi county, he visited Ant Colony with his friends. I suddenly felt it and wrote a long narrative poem "Song of Eternal Sorrow".
The poem begins with:? The emperor of China longed to shake the beauty of an empire? However, in later poems, sensitive words such as Yang's daughter, Hua Qingchi, Yu Yang Cournot and Mawei Po were repeatedly mentioned, and we can vaguely feel the mapping between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei.
Little friends who know a little about the feudal social background may know the stakes. Bai Juyi wrote this poem only 44 years after Xuanzong's death. )
Just like a police chief in the suburbs of the capital, he openly satirized a sex scandal of the former leaders of the current dynasty.
However, Bai Juyi did not ruin his career and life because of the innuendo and satire to the supreme leader, and Song of Eternal Sorrow was not harmonious.
On the contrary, this poem became more and more popular at that time. How popular is it?
Xiong Haizi can sing this satirical song, and foreigners are praising the works of this great poet.
Because of this poem, ordinary people were not invited to have tea. On the contrary, Tang Xuanzong, the current supreme leader, directly and publicly stated that it is right for the people to satirize the last emperor and dare to expose the pornographic news of the court!
Tang Xuanzong? Li Chen:? In the past 60 years, who taught me to be a poet? Floating clouds are naturally happy if they are not famous and easy to live in. Boys explain "Song of Eternal Sorrow", and Hu Er can sing "Pipa". The article is full of people, and I once missed you. ?
If this matter was put into the Great Qing Dynasty, I don't know how many times it died.
In this atmosphere, famous works with the themes of Xuanzong and Yang Guifei abound in the late Tang Dynasty, such as Ma Wei by Li Shangyin and Guo Huaqing Palace by Du Mu.
During the Tang Dynasty, the whole country showed a pure self-confidence and tolerance from top to bottom.
This tolerance and self-confidence of the Tang Dynasty is reflected in his military, diplomatic, cultural, national governance, territory and other aspects, and the output of civilization is only one of them.
This kind of inner emotion is based on the real strength of the country. The people of the country live in peace, the foreigners submit, and Taizong is revered as Tiankhan, which is the dream of kings of all ages.
For example, today's immigration, discrimination by overseas Chinese, worship of foreign things, lack of self-confidence in culture, and the reality that foreign countries have a more developed economy, a better living environment and a superior political system are all problems in China people's minds? Trouble? It didn't exist in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Because, at that time, Datang basically represented the highest level in the world.
You may see that our generals and residents come from all over the world, all speak fluent Chinese, and really feel like a family with us.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were a bunch of foreign generals, many of whom were generals of hostile countries. Even Khan, the royal family of the enemy country, came to be generals and volunteered to be buried with the emperor.
The strength of the Tang Dynasty lies in its openness, tolerance and complete self-confidence. It is a supreme honor for foreigners to live in the Tang Dynasty. They also sincerely think that I am a China native, and I am extremely proud.
The opening of the Tang Dynasty is not only a woman's dress, but also a cultural tolerance. In fact, the civilization achievements of the Song Dynasty are still very high.
It is also very important that the Tang Dynasty did not interfere with religion for most of the time. Apart from the destruction of Buddhism by Wu Zong, Wu Zetian promoted Buddhism for political reasons. The Tang Dynasty was basically a secular country and quite civilized. After all, some countries are not secular now.
As for the closed places, there are still some, such as the cruel officials system in the Wu and Zhou Dynasties.
But none of this will affect the top-down national culture and self-confidence in their own civilization in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which is simply called the historical peak.