What is a doggerel?

Shangjiuliu: One Buddha, Two Immortals, Three Immortals, Four Officials, Five Senses, Six Phases, Seven Monks, Eight Roads, Nine Villages and Heaven.

Zhong Jiuliu: One storyteller, two doctors, three diviners (fortune-telling), four chess players (chess players), five painters (painters), six officials (ranks), seven horizontal (lobbyists), eight righteous (chivalrous) and nine fishermen.

Xiajiuliu: One (singing opera), Two Blowers (drummers), Three Circus, Four Haircuts (Haircuts), Five Pools (Bathrooms), Six Back Rubbing, Seven Pedicures, Eight Pairs (Breeding) and Nine Prostitutes.

brief introduction

"Three religions" refer to Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.

In Hanshu, it refers to Confucianism, Taoism, Yin and Yang, Legalists, famous artists, Mohists, military strategists, miscellaneous notes and farmers. Nine schools and ten schools are novelists except nine schools.

According to Jiu Liu and Han Shu Yi Wen Zhi, Jiu Liu refers to Confucianism, Taoism, Yin and Yang, Legalism, Famous Scholars, Mohism, Strategists, Miscellaneous Scholars and Peasants respectively.

Later, people divided the "nine streams" into "upper nine streams", "middle nine streams" and "lower nine streams" according to social status.