Where did the "erotic palace pictures" come from?

Prints of the secret genealogy of mandarin ducks, palace romances, ancient sexual blessing pictures, ancient acacia chairs...the sexual world displayed by these pictures, porcelain, jade, and sexual tools amazes even modern people. Such a vivid, rich sex life. In fact, most of these are "textbooks" for ancient people's sex education. In ancient times, girls had to get married when they were fifteen or sixteen years old. Women did not understand the "law of husband and wife" before they got married. How to provide sex education to them? The ancients mainly used the method of demonstration of objects, supplemented by textbooks and picture guidance. The most typical ones are "dowry paintings" and "pressing box bottoms". They are actually porcelain paintings of different sexual intercourse methods and a collection of sexual postures.

Lin Xianglun, director of the Danxia Mountain Chinese Sexual Culture Museum, said that the Tang Dynasty was famous for its unique openness. From the court to the private sector, people had few sexual taboos and had considerable freedom in sexual life. In the Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming Dynasties advocated "preserving natural principles and destroying human desires", which became a turning point in the history of sexual culture in my country. After that, for a long time, there were more and more sexual restrictions and less and less sexual freedom. Since then, these "erotic pictures" have gradually faded out of people's sight. It was not until the end of the 1970s that sexual confinement was broken, and they were re-recognized as cultural relics.

Treat sexual cultural relics correctly and face sexual issues correctly

In previous sexual culture festivals, the audience in front of the sexual cultural relics booth will "gather together", and people will look at it with various mentality These "erotic pictures". Some people think it is novel and interesting, while others think it is indecent or even obscene. Lin Xianglun said that because we have restricted sex for too long, it takes a process for people to re-accept and understand "sex". Fortunately, through various publicity, it is becoming easier and easier for people to accept sex education with an open mind.

40-year-old Ms. Liu watched the ancient sexual culture exhibition with curiosity, but after watching it, she felt for the first time how naive she was and found that she had been sorry to her husband for so many years. She said, although I am over 40 years old, sex is still blank for me, which has seriously affected the relationship between husband and wife. I come from a family of intellectuals, and my parents were very strict with me. Although I had male classmates who I pursued when I was in college, I always hid myself deeply under my mother’s family motto that “love is not allowed in college.” When I was 25 years old, my mother gave me a blind date and fell in love with a boy. I had no objection to him. I married him that year. He loves me very much, but I am always very shy when it comes to sex between husband and wife. I feel it is a sin from the bottom of my heart, and I cannot get rid of that dirty feeling. I always feel that noble people should not be like this. Conservative and closed sexual concepts made Ms. Liu's 13-year married life a mess.

Sexology expert Ma Xiaonian also likes to collect sexual relics and displays many pictures of sexual relics on his blog. He believes that many problems encountered in clinical practice are related to patients' psychology, concepts and other factors. , by introducing some ancient Chinese sexual culture and sexual history, it will help correct patients' closed and conservative sexual concepts, so as to correctly face their own sexual problems.

How to appreciate sexual cultural relics?

Sexual culture is an issue that people have ignored for a long time. The ancient sexual culture exhibition gives people an opportunity to understand sexual culture. How should we appreciate these sexual exhibits? Lin Xianglun believes that we can understand and appreciate it from three perspectives: sex guidance, sex education, and sexual health.

1. Sexual guidance

In some cultural environments, sexual activities are regarded as an integral part of daily life. For example, the ancient Chinese prehistoric ivory tablets collected by Ma Xiaonian are engraved with different sexual positions for the purpose of sexual education and sexual life guidance. The West even classifies ancient Chinese erotic pictures as erotic art. Of course, the purpose of erotic culture can also be religious worship. For example, in famous temples in India, a large number of sexual statues are created and decorated. They also wrote the "Kama Sutra" to guide people's lives, including sexual guidance. .

2. Sex education

Sex education existed in ancient China. In some cultural relics, you can see scenes of children playing side by side while their parents are having sex. From this point of view, The ancients did not seem to shy away from these things. Some gadgets from that time also clearly bear witness to the social attitude towards this at that time, such as children lying on the cabin of a ship, eavesdropping on adults having sex in the cabin and laughing proudly.

In a set of five porcelain bowls, there are pastel erotic paintings on them. All children are present, either outside the window or indoors, with natural expressions. Ma Xiaonian believes that in fact, adults' attitudes towards sex determine children's reactions. If adults show panic, children may have negative psychology, and vice versa, there will be no negative effects.

3. Sexual health

The literature on sexual intercourse skills left by the ancients all shine with the brilliance of science. Lin Xianglun said that "Su Nv Jing" introduces in detail the skills of couples' sexual life, for example, men should be calm about ED problems. Fangzhongshu also emphasizes that sex is natural and necessary, yin and yang must be in harmony, and sexual suppression is not advisable. The sexual life of husband and wife must be harmonious. Only when both parties have "spiritual and spiritual feelings" and are happy with each other can sexual intercourse be suitable. These views are also consistent with modern science.