When it comes to Yangzhou, everyone will say that Yangzhou is a good place with beautiful women! ~ The proverb "One spread to ten, ten spread to a hundred" has now spread all over the world. There are many beautiful women in China, from Zhao Yan Beauty and wuyue Jiaowa to Luoyang Daughter and mizhi poyi, all of them are household names, but the word of mouth of "Yangzhou Beauty" is the most widely spread, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a household name. Yangzhou is famous for its beauty, as it has been since ancient times. Du Mu's sentence "Twenty-four Bridges on a moonlit night, where do jade people teach flute" is even more fascinating. But who knows that there is a little-known allusion closely related to the sentence "Yangzhou produces beautiful women": Yangzhou thin horse. Thin horses are not difficult to understand, that is, thin sick horses. In Ma Zhiyuan's poem "Tianjingsha Qiu Si", there is a famous saying that "the old road is thin and the west wind is thin". I always thought the author meant horses. But Yangzhou is a water town, thousands of miles away from the north, where did you get the military forces? Besides, owning a horse is not unqualified for the typical scenery of the south of the Yangtze River. In fact, thin horse, that is, Yangzhou beauty When people in Yangzhou marry a daughter-in-law, the spoken language is: marry a horse or marry a horse. The word "marry a horse" evolved from the word "thin horse" circulated in Yangzhou in the early Qing Dynasty. Yangzhou, the prosperity of the world began with the construction of the Grand Canal in the Sui Dynasty. At that time, Yang Di toured Jiangnan, looking for women from Yangzhou to fill the harem. Later generations took this as an example. It is said that Yang-ti also likes to give Yangzhou widows and women to soldiers as wives. From then on, Yangzhou women became famous. Then there is the "Yangzhou March Fireworks" written by literati. Because Yangzhou is rich in beautiful women, water transportation is also very convenient. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Yangzhou was actually the trading center of maids and concubines in China. Xie has a narrative: "Weiyang lives in heaven and earth, Sichuan is beautiful, so women are beautiful, gentle and graceful." The so-called zeqi is full, and women are also encouraged by the qi of Shu. All parties must not be enemies. However, young people are used to treating this as a strange commodity. Boys and girls are sold everywhere in the market, children's clothes are added, and they are taught to return to books, arithmetic and chess, making them thick and straight, which is called' thin horse'. However, habits and nature are no different from themselves. "The Kangxi period in the early Qing Dynasty was another heyday in Yangzhou history. This era of extremely rich materials is a society with seriously distorted and deformed human nature. Yangzhou thin horse, Yangzhou beauty, was born at this time. But who knows the beauty of Yangzhou hides the inhuman pain and humiliation of Yangzhou women! In Yangzhou city, a family called keeping thin horses unexpectedly appeared. The appearance of thin horse is completely the abnormal demand of salt merchants. As a result, Yangzhou has a special place to raise thin horses. Those poor families in Yangzhou city and surrounding rural areas have no food and clothing, so they have to sell their already thin daughters to be thin horses and spend those helpless days. Obviously, Yangzhou thin horse is a specific title in a specific society, but it also represents the sadness in that glorious history. Yangzhou beauty was originally a compliment to Yangzhou women, but it was replaced by a thin horse in Yangzhou at that time, which became a shame for Yangzhou women. Even now, many people still think that Yangzhou is a place of fireworks, but in fact, the beauty of Yangzhou has become history. Now there are no so-called Yangzhou beauties on the streets of Yangzhou. Maybe this Yangzhou is not Yangzhou, because it is the first 10 day in Yangzhou.