Interesting historical story: Where did the brothel originally refer to?

Brothel has several sayings in history, one refers to a woman's boudoir, the other refers to a brothel, and the other is a restaurant where literati talk about poetry and Taoism. At present, when it comes to brothels, most of us think of brothels. Brothels are recognized as places to shelter evil people and shelter evil people, but in ancient times, brothels were not like this at first.

In ancient times, the requirements for women were very strict. Besides getting married, they can go out of the house. On weekdays, they are not allowed to go out. Especially for some young ladies from large families, ethical codes are even more strict to the extreme. Every day, young ladies sit in their boudoir and kill time by needlework or poetry collection. Because the boudoir is full of young girls in their twenties and eighties, after a long time, the girl's boudoir is called brothel.

Secondly, cyan is a very noble color in ancient times, not only because it is difficult to extract, but also because of the meaning it represents. In ancient times, class division was very strict. It stipulates what kind of clothes people should wear and what colors and patterns they should use. In order to show their status, some dignitaries will paint their houses with cyan paint. People also call such houses brothels.

In ancient times, many literati often held poetry meetings, especially before the imperial examination every year, students from all over the world gathered together. Some clever businessmen found business opportunities, so they set up a restaurant specially for these scholars to talk about things. In order to make the restaurant recognizable, it was named Lou Qing, which means the building is clean and tidy, and the guests are all literati. Such restaurants are naturally popular, and so are later imitators. However, due to the inaccurate transmission of ancient information, it gradually evolved into a brothel.