What exactly is the "three aunts and six grandmothers" that the ancients often said?

When we hear three aunts and six grandmothers, we will think of our nagging relatives at home. I believe that many young people are most afraid of meeting three aunts and six grandmothers when they come home for the New Year, or they will keep gossiping. Although three aunts and six wives generally refer to all kinds of annoying princesa in modern society, in fact, three aunts and six wives were several frightening occupations in ancient times, among which three aunts refer to Taoist priests, nuns and divinatory aunts, and six wives refer to matchmakers, teachers, aunts, devout women and gossip.

First of all, Sangu refers to nuns, Taoists and divinatory symbols. As we all know, a woman who becomes a monk is called a nun, and a Taoist refers to a woman who practices in a Taoist temple. For example, Li Mochou holding Buddha dust in "The Condor Heroes" is a typical Taoist image, and the words of hanging nuns refer to women who specialize in divination. Secondly, six women refer to matchmakers, teachers, dentists, devout women, stable women and medicine women. Well-known matchmakers refer to people who help people introduce their in-laws, while mother-in-law refers to people who ask God for advice in ancient times, that is, witches now; Tooth woman's words are traffickers who bought and sold handmaiden in ancient times; A pious woman refers to a brothel pimp, a stable woman refers to a midwife who specializes in delivering children, and a poisonous woman refers to a woman who deals in abortion drugs, abortion drugs and other drugs.

Then, three aunts and six grandmothers first appeared in the ancient books of the Ming Dynasty, and later gradually became an abhorrent existence. According to our current thinking, there is nothing wrong with three aunts and six grandmothers except individual occupations that violate the law and discipline. However, in ancient times, due to their relatively low status, women were all at home, rarely in contact with the outside world, and did not understand the outside society. Most of the jobs these three aunts and six grandmothers are engaged in are not legitimate jobs, but they are well-informed outside, and they have evil thoughts on these good women while pleasing their hearts. While cheating them out of their money, they gradually became the object of people's hatred because of their ostentation and deception. Therefore, three aunts and six grandmothers give people the impression that they are doing nothing, gossiping, seeking influence, etc., and they have also become a general term for women with such bad behavior.

Finally, in ancient times, three aunts and six wives originally referred to women in nine occupations, but later they were disgusted because of their poor work, and now they have gradually become derogatory terms.