What does the ancient "nine streams" mean?

According to the ranking, the ancient Shang Jiu Liu refers to: one Buddha, two immortals, three sages, four emperors, five ministers, six phases, seven monks, eight roads, and nine villages. Because our country has a long history, different dynasties may have different rankings, so there is no unified standard, but it can reflect the social strata of each dynasty from top to bottom.

One Buddha The Buddha here refers to Buddha Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism. Since the Tang dynasty, the momentum of Buddhism in China has gradually overshadowed Taoism, so this first-class position has let the Buddha sit.

The immortals here refer to Taoist immortals, including large and small Taoist immortals, such as Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi Tianzun, Jade Emperor Eight Immortals crossing the sea, and some scattered immortals. They all have magical powers and live leisurely on earth, ranking second only to the Buddha in Buddhism.

The three sages and sages are easy to understand, even some saints and sages in the world have high status. Apart from the immortal buddhas, they are the most respected. The representatives of sages are Confucius and Laozi, and the representatives of sages are Zhuangzi and Mencius.

Emperors of the Four Emperors were kings of various dynasties. Since ancient times, there has been a saying in our country that sovereignty is given by God. They are the highest-ranking people except gods and saints, truly above ten thousand people, and are real dragons.

The five senses or officials are also easy to understand. They represent all the officials here. In history, officials have always had great power, and they can even do whatever they want on their own turf. It is not surprising that they can become the top nine people.

A fortune teller is a person who used to visit a fortune teller. At that time, fortune tellers were very capable. The so-called fortune tellers were very accurate in many things. Unlike now, they were fools who cheated people and cheated money, so these people lived a good life and people respected them.

Seven monks are monks, who were called Buddhist disciples in ancient times. Because they are Buddhists, they were widely respected by people in the past.

Ba Lu is a Taoist, practicing our traditional religion Taoism, and often going down the mountain to exorcise evil spirits for the people, so his position is naturally unusual.

From Jiuzhuangtian here? Zhuang Tian? Not farmers, but farmers with large estates.