The characteristics of the brothel

Answer 1

Goulan Tile House was a folk art performance venue during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It had the following characteristics:
1. ** In terms of layout and structure **
- The tile-roofed house was relatively large, with a dozen or so railings. There were tea houses, wine shops, theatres, and other entertainment venues in the tile-roofed house. There were also various shops that sold clothes, toys, groceries, tea houses, wine shops, hairdressing shops, and so on. There were taverns, tea houses, and sundries shops around the house. In the middle was a market, which was similar to a comprehensive supermarket that gathered food, drink, and entertainment.
- The railing was a fixed place for artists to perform in the tile-roofed house separated by railings or giant curtains. Its construction style drew lessons from some characteristics of the temple stage at that time. It set up a stage and a divine building, and also considered the placement of the audience to build a fully enclosed structure. It was surrounded by a roof, so that the performance would not be affected by the climate and season. The stage used for the hook and turn performance was higher than the ground. There was a music bed on the stage, and the backstage area behind the stage was the backstage (theater). The passage from the theater to the stage was called "Ancient Gate" or "Ghost Gate"(namely, the upper and lower gates). Opposite and around it were the audience seats (waist tents) that were raised from the inside to the outside. The stands facing the stage and in a higher position were called the God Tower.
2. ** Function and performance **
- Tile houses were the entertainment center of the city during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. They were part of the history of the development of drama culture and were related to the performances of China Zaju and Southern opera. There were many entertainment programs in the tile house, and there were hundreds of kinds of performances, among which speaking, puppet, acrobatics, drama, and shadow play were the most popular. The entertainment programs such as drama, funny play, history telling, singing and dancing, puppet play, magic, acrobatics, Cuju, sumo wrestling, etc. were performed day and night in the bar.
- Hook-off artists formed a very professional organization model. The audience paid to enjoy the artistic performance. This model promoted the commodification of artistic performance, marked the official formation of China theater, and strongly promoted the development of literature and art in later generations.
3. ** Rise and Development **
- Tile houses rose in the decades from the middle of Song Renzong to the early Shenzong period. They rose in response to the needs of the citizens for entertainment. All kinds of folk arts that were originally scattered in various places gathered in the city to perform. In the later period of the Song Dynasty, the distribution of tile-roofed balustrades became more and more widespread, and many regions began to rise and become a custom. Their internal settings became more and more standardized, and the number of people they could accommodate also increased. Similar to the theaters and gymnasiums in modern cities, each tile-roofed balustrades arranged performances regularly every day, and there were also participating lists, which obtained a relatively standardized development. However, after the Northern Song, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties, until the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the China drama, which was mainly based on tile-roofed houses and balustrades, supplemented by temple theatres, went extinct. However, it mixed the elements of Zaju and Nanxi, affecting the development of China drama.

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