What do you mean by "three aunts and six wives"?

In ancient times, three aunts and six women were the names of a group of special people at the bottom of society.

The origin of "three aunts and six women" was first put forward by Tao, a scholar in Ming Dynasty. The identities of three aunts and six grandmothers recorded in his notes are nuns, Taoist nuns and fortune tellers. Six women refer to tooth women, matchmakers, pious women, teacher women, medicine women and steady women. Among them, Yapo is a trafficker who introduces human trafficking and specializes in buying and selling handmaiden concubines; A matchmaker is a woman who regards marriage as a career; A pious woman refers to a thief or a pimp in a brothel; Shipo, also known as a witch, uses painting symbols to cast spells and ask God for life. Medicine woman is a woman who specializes in selling drugs such as anti-abortion drugs and abortion drugs; Stable women are midwives who deliver babies, and sometimes they are responsible for checking whether female corpses are raped first and then killed.

Because most of the industries that three aunts and six wives are engaged in are despised by people other than nuns and Taoist priests, the world tends to stay away from them, such as avoiding snakes and scorpions, especially women in large families are never allowed to have any contact with three aunts and six wives. However, with the development of the times, the three aunts and six grandmothers in modern Chinese have a new meaning, which often refers to all kinds of women in society.