What are the five flowers in the variety? What's Eight Doors?

Originally refers to the five-element array and the eight-door array. These are two ancient tactics with many changes. Metaphor is changeable or changeable.

"Variety" is sometimes interpreted as formation in ancient tactics: "Wuhua" is a five-element formation, and "Bamen" is an eight-door formation, also known as gossip formation. According to the ranking of gossip, eight eighties can be turned into sixty-four hexagrams, which will often throw the opposing army into chaos.

In addition to the array method, in ancient times, "multifarious" was also specially designated as several specific industries:

Wuhua:

Jin Juhua-a metaphor for a woman who sells tea.

Kapok-a metaphor for a doctor who goes to the streets to treat diseases.

Narcissus-a metaphor for a singer in a restaurant.

Pyracantha-a juggler's metaphor.

Local cowflowers-metaphor for some porters.

Eight doors:

The so-called "eight doors" refer to the businessmen who set up stalls in the market and earn money by glib mouths, namely: gold, leather, signing, hanging, evaluating, organizing, adjusting and willow.

A Golden Gate (a towel)-"Golden Point" is the general name for Jianghu artists to calculate divination by looking at their faces. There are also dumb gold, gnawing gold, gold, Bao Jin, Lao Zhouer and so on.

Two-door skin-"skin" line is the general term for drug trafficking. This business is also called "picking Han's son". According to the different medicinal materials sold, they are called: pick Han, pick Zi Han, pick Zao Chew, pick Zi Han, pick firewood to hang Han, pick General Han, pick whole grain, pick smoked Zi Han and so on.

Three colors-"color" is color. Anyone who juggles is called "bride price", and those who juggle with foreigners are called "color is right".

Four-door crane-a person who practices acrobatics at fairs and temple fairs is called "crane" by Jianghu people. Divided into: support, pull, poke, point, sharp, fishy and so on.

Five comments-those who say storytelling. Those who sing drum books are called "long guys" and those who tell stories are called "short guys".

Six-door group-crosstalk performers. Jianghu people call teasing children with cross talk "Tuan Chun".

Seven-tone-tent and paper. Paper binding, also known as paper binding, paper paste and color paste, integrates paper cutting, painting, straw weaving, bamboo weaving and paste. Buy it back and burn it to the dead when the family has a funeral. At the end of the Qing dynasty, it was also said that it was selling opium drugs.

Eight-door willow singing drums. Jianghu people call drum singing "Liu Haihong". There are Fengtian tune, Laoting tune, Xihe tune, Plum blossom tune and Pear blossom tune.

From the above explanation, multifarious refers to various occupations in the Qing Dynasty.

"Five Flowers" and "Eight Doors" have been used to refer to the professional practitioners at the bottom of the market outside the mainstream occupations such as "scholars, farmers and businesses". Most of these professional practitioners are despised by society, so variety shows are derogatory. Nowadays, it has become a commonly used neutral word.