What is a cult? What is the 369 stream?

China used to refer to various religions or academic schools. It also refers to people from all walks of life in society, which is derogatory. The classic comes from Song Zhaowei's Yin Footprints, Volume 6: "(Wu Liang) The Emperor asked about the three religions and the nine streams and the old events of the Han Dynasty, and this is the case today." Synonym: three aunts and six grandmothers, five elements and eight merits. Three religions and nine streams (also called nine streams and three streams) generally refer to religions and various academic schools in ancient China, which is the classification of people's status and professional names in ancient China. In ancient vernacular novels, there are often derogatory meanings.

Three religions, three traditional religions in China: Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

Ninety-six, in Hanshu? 6? 1 Literature and history records refer to: Confucianism, Taoism, Yin and Yang, Legalism, Famous Scholars, Mohism, Military Strategist, Miscellaneous Family and Peasant Family.

Nine streams can be subdivided into upper nine streams, middle nine streams and lower nine streams, but there are different opinions.

Shangjiuliu

Emperors, sages, hermits, immortals, literati, warriors, agriculture, industry and commerce.

Buddha, heaven, emperor, official, cabinet old, prime minister, advance, lift, and solve yuan.

Buddha, immortal, emperor, official, bucket official, scale, industry, commerce, zhuangtian

Buddha, Immortal, Emperor, Official, Shaoguo, Dang, Shang, Hakka, Zhuangtian

Zhongjiuliu

Doctor, Xiang Ming, Dan Qing, scholar, monk, Tao, Ni.

Scholar, doctor, Dan Qing, leather (shadow play), playing the piano and singing, gold (divination), monk, Taoist, chess, piano.

Lizi, medicine, geomantic omen, criticism, painting, monks, Taoism, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Lizi, medicine, geomantic omen, criticism, painting, physiognomy, monks, Taoism, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Xiajiuliu

Pet, servant, scale, matchmaker, pawn, demon, thief, thief, prostitute.

High platform, hair dryer, circus, push, pool, back rubbing, repair, matching, prostitute

Beat dogs, sell oil, pedicure, shave hair, carry food, tailor, prostitute, hair dryer.

Witches, prostitutes, great gods, bangs, bald heads, hand blowers, actors, street vendors, sugar sellers and so on. (Sang Li ·jiǔ incarnation)

Note: there are many grades and categories, which are different.

Source: Cao Qingxue Qin's Dream of Red Mansions Seventy-five times: "It's just that I lost a few taels of silver at the moment, and you are in the third place."

Ban Gu (AD 32-92), a historian and writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, divided ancient and modern figures into "nine scales" in his Ren Jin Table of Han Shugu, which was divided into three levels: upper (intellectual), middle (human) and lower (foolish). In each grade, it is divided into three grades: upper, middle, upper, upper, middle, lower and lower. This may be the source of later classification.

Three, six, nine and so on. It's just a saying, and some people say that people are divided into ten classes, which means that people are divided into high and low levels. In the past, some people said:

Officials; Two officials; Three monks; Four roads; Five doctors; Six workers; Seven craftsmen; Eight prostitutes; Nine Confucianism; Ten beggars

In the hierarchical slave society and feudal society, people were divided into 369 classes. Don't divide others into 369 categories first, and knock them all down. Many people were born poor. Poverty is limited to material things, and what is truly noble is spirit and thought. Many people born in rich families are actually very mean.