Chapter 9 Two homosexuals who influenced Jia Baoyu's life

Although Jia Baoyu has extraordinary ideological traits, it is still undeniable that he is a passionate young man who grew up in a deformed love environment.He not only agrees with the relationship between men and women, but is even addicted to homosexuality.In the book, Jia Baoyu also appeared several homosexuals.Generally seeing this, many readers start not to buy it: gay?Wouldn't that be too detrimental to Jia Baoyu's image?If so, as a pervert, how can he be qualified to fall in love with the pure and innocent Lin Daiyu? In fact, talking about homosexuality has a long history in China.The earliest record can be found in "Miscellaneous Comments": "Boy molestation began with the Yellow Emperor." And "Zheng Feng" in "Book of Songs" also has a description of "two men pleasing each other".In the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there were already quite a few records about homosexuality. It can be seen that this is really an ancient form of emotion.In the Han Dynasty, the masculinity flourished. According to records, ten emperors from Gaozu in the Western Han Dynasty to Emperor Ning in the Eastern Han Dynasty had this experience. The most famous Hanwu Emperor Liu Che had as many as five same-sex partners.Jiru of Gaozu, Hongru of Emperor Hui, Deng Tong of Emperor Wen, Zhou Ren of Emperor Jing, Jinshang of Emperor Zhao, Li Yannian of Emperor Wu, Zhang Pengzu of Emperor Xuan, Shi Xian of Emperor Yuan, Chunyuchang of Emperor Cheng, Dong Xian of Emperor Ai... …Because homosexuality was not ashamed in the Han Dynasty, all of these people were recorded in official history and became famous figures in history.The most famous of these is the same-sex love between Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty and Xian Dong: Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty slept with Dong Xian on the same pillow, and Dong Xian held down the sleeve of Emperor Ai, and Emperor Ai couldn't bear to wake him up and cut off his own sleeve. title.Dong Xian and Emperor Ai were like husband and wife, they refused to go home even on vacation, so Emperor Ai had to order Dong Xian's wife to live with Dong Xian in the palace.At the same time, homosexuality also has other names such as "Longyang" and "Fentao", which come from the allusions that King Wei favored Lord Longyang and Duke Ling of Wei favored Mi Zixia respectively.Once these male favorites are favored and powerful, they will have countless privileges. Emperor Hanwen favored Deng Tong, and even gave him the privilege of making money privately.And the famous male pet Li Yannian not only served the emperor himself, but also recommended his younger sister to the "lover" Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who would become the famous Mrs. Li in the future. Brother and sister working together as a "husband" is also a new thing that is groundbreaking!In the "Chengzhai Miscellaneous Notes" of the Yuan Dynasty, it also recorded the story of Pan Zhang and Wang Zhongxian among the scholars in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. They met each other, fell in love with each other, and even died together. A tree with branches and leaves hugging each other is called the "shared pillow tree", which was passed down as a good talk by the world for a time.It can be seen that at that time the masculine habits had already "flyed into the homes of ordinary people".

In the Song Dynasty, not only was the problem of homosexuality serious, men even began to openly engage in prostitution, and started the business of "receiving customers". Of course, the customers here were all men.Therefore, at the end of the Song Dynasty, Huizong had to legislate to prohibit "male prostitution", which shows the severity of it.In the southern Fujian area during the Ming Dynasty, homosexuality even became a form of love publicly recognized by the society, even their family members regarded it as normal.In addition, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the masculinity reached its peak.Since the law prohibits officials from procuring female prostitutes, some lustful men began to openly replace them with "male prostitutes" in order to avoid legal sanctions. A handsome actor.It can be seen that in such an era, it is not only women who have a miserable fate. If they are "lowly", even men cannot escape the tricks of fate!Today, let's not talk about history, but just take a look at the description of Jia Baoyu's two homosexuals in the book "A Dream of Red Mansions".