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China: Rice merchants at a banquet with singsong girls, Beijing,1900
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Title: China: Rice merchants at a banquet with singsong girls, Beijing,1900
Caption: Sing-song girls (also known as flower girls) is an English term for the courtesans in nineteenth century China.
. Although generally concubines or courtesans, people in Shanghai called the women who performed in sing-song houses 'xian sheng' in Wu dialect. The term was pronounced 'sing-song' in English and the young women always sang to entertain the customers; thus Westerners called them Sing-Song girls. The word xian sang in this case is a polite term used to refer to an entertainer.
. Although generally concubines or courtesans, people in Shanghai called the women who performed in sing-song houses 'xian sheng' in Wu dialect. The term was pronounced 'sing-song' in English and the young women always sang to entertain the customers; thus Westerners called them Sing-Song girls. The word xian sang in this case is a polite term used to refer to an entertainer.
Credit: Album / Universal Images Group / Pictures From History
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Image size: 4224 × 4381 px | 52.9 MB
Print size: 35.8 × 37.1 cm | 1663.0 × 1724.8 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: 1900 • AMUSEMENT • ASIA • ASIAN • BANQUET • BEIJING • BENJAMIN • CHINA • CHINE • CHINESE • CHOPSTICKS • COURTESAN • COURTISAN • DIVERSION • DIVERTISSEMENT • ENTERTAINER • ENTERTAINMENT • ENTERTAINMENTS • FEMALES • FOOD • FOODSTUFFS • HUMAN SEXUALITY • KILBURN • MEAL • MERCHANT • MUJER • MUJERES • MUSICAL INSTRUMENT • MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: ALL • MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS • ORGY • PEKIN • PEKING • PHOTOGRAPH • PORCELAIN • PROSTITUTE • PROSTITUTES • PROSTITUTION • SING SONG GIRLS • SING SONG • SING-SONG GIRLS • SINGSONG • SYMPOSION • WOMAN WOMEN • WOMAN'S • WOMAN • WOMAN. • WOMANS • WOMEN'S • WOMEN • WOMENS
