What were the occupations of "Shangjiuliu", "Zhongjiuliu" and "Xiajiuliu" in ancient times?

The word nine streams is often used with the three religions, which is a word we often mention: three religions and nine streams. The new words formed by these two phrases mean: referring to religions and various academic schools in general, which is the classification of people's status and professional names in ancient China.

Friends who like reading classical novels will know that the word "three religions and nine streams" often appears in three words and two beats, and it is often derogatory.

Then why does this number have to be 9? Why not seven or eight? This is related to China's hierarchical tradition of judging people.

When Ban Gu, a historian and writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, wrote Hanshu, although it was a dynastic history, he wrote a list of characters in Hanshu from ancient times to modern times in a unique way. He divided ancient celebrities into nine categories: Shang Yang, Shang Zhong, Xia Shang, Shang Zhong, Zhong You, Zhong You, Zhong You, Xia Shang and Zhong You. Therefore, 96 has become synonymous with all occupations in the world.

Nine streams refer to nine different identities. From the highest to the lowest: emperors, scribes, officials, doctors, monks, soldiers, farmers, craftsmen and businessmen.

The nine streams of social status are subdivided into the upper nine streams, the middle nine streams and the lower nine streams.

Nine streams, first-rate Buddha, second-rate immortal, third-rate emperor, fourth-rate official, fifth-rate boiler, sixth-rate pawn. Seven businessmen, eight customers and nine farms.

To put it simply, the first category is Buddha Sakyamuni, and the second category is Taoist immortals such as Yuanshi Tianzun. Everyone knows that "third-and fourth-rate" refers to wineries, and traditional social wineries are the largest factories, so they rank fifth below big and small officials.

Six streams are pawnbrokers, seven streams are merchants, that is, people who do business, eight streams are landlords, people with large tracts of land at home, and nine streams are farmers engaged in agricultural production.

Among the nine schools, first-rate doctors are second-rate, third-rate geomantic omen is fourth-rate, fifth-rate painters are sixth-rate, and seven monks are eight-way and nine-piano.

Although there is a saying that "everything is inferior, only reading is high", but scholars can only occupy the middle stream.

Feng Shui refers to Mr. Feng Shui and Mr. Yin Yang; Batch refers to fortune tellers who batch eight characters. Dan Qing refers to calligraphy and painting, a fortune teller, a fortune teller. Everything else will be clear.

A first-rate witch is a second-rate prostitute, a third-rate god is a fourth-rate bangzi, a fifth-rate shaved head and six blow-hands, and seven plays, eight beggars and nine prostitutes sell sugar.

Witches refer to witches who recite spells to attract gods to exorcise ghosts, and gods refer to witches possessed by immortals who treat diseases in the form of songs and dances. Bang refers to the night watchman, and blowman refers to someone who plays drums or trumpets. Selling sugar refers to people blowing sugar all over the street.

Of course, this statement is only one of them, and the others are listed as follows:

Shangjiuliu: emperors, sages, hermits, children immortals, literati, warriors, agriculture, industry and commerce. Middle school students: Juzi, doctors, relatives, painters, scholars, chess players, monks, Taoist priests and nuns. Dirty people: masters, servants, scales, matchmakers, pawns, demons, thieves, thieves and prostitutes. The upper nine streams are: first-class Buddha, second-rate fairy; Third-rate emperors and fourth-rate officials; Five streams buy and sell six fields, and seven thieves and eight thieves want money. The next nine streams are: first-rate scales, second-rate buckets, third-rate butchers, fourth-rate dogs, fifth-rate pedicures, sixth-rate haircuts, seventh-rate prostitutes and eighth-rate singers.