What do you mean, madam?

1. In the past, top officials or powerful people called their wives "madam".

Today, it means to respect a person's wife, such as "Your wife is here".

3. [Dialect] Zhuanglang dialect in Gansu, great-grandmother (grandfather's mother).

In China, we call our wives "madam". The title of Lady comes from three women established in the Zhou Dynasty. Because of their names, they all have the word "Tai". "Madam" means the mother of a saint. Zhou Wenwang's mother's name is Taiyun, her grandmother's name is Taijiang, and her wife's name is Tess.

These three women are all saints, and their children, Duke Zhou, King Wen and King Wu, are all saints. Indeed, they can successfully complete the task of education, especially the mother Taiyun, who began to educate her son from prenatal education.

When she was pregnant, she paid great attention to her thoughts and behaviors. She "turns a blind eye to evil colors", "turns a deaf ear to lewd voices" and "can't speak proudly". She pays attention to her body and mouth to influence the fetus. Therefore, education begins with prenatal education.

5. honorifics for married women.

6. Dialect: Wife refers to grandpa's father and mother, and can be called a wife regardless of gender.

Extended data:

The word "madam" first appeared in the Book of Rites Quli. It is recorded in the book that "the princess of the son of heaven is called the queen and the vassal is called the lady", which means that the wife of the son of heaven is called the queen, but the wife of the vassal can be called the lady.

Later, the emperor's wife was called "queen", and the prime minister could call his wife "madam". Later, people with wealth status also called their wives "madam", and then this title spread slowly.

The word "wife" is a kind of respect for other people's wives. According to textual research, in the Han Dynasty, "wife" was a respectful name for the wife of the older generation. When the Han Dynasty mourned the emperor, the emperor addressed his grandmother Fu Shi as the wife of the emperor and later as the queen of the emperor. So in the Han Dynasty, the title of "wife" gradually became popular among aristocratic women.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were strict restrictions on addressing "wife". The Ming Dynasty wrote in Hu Yinglin's Poem A and B: "The wife of any scholar-bureaucrat should be called a wife at the age of 30", which means that only the wife with an official position above Zhong Cheng can be called a wife.