What are the "five flowers" and "eight doors" in the idiom "various"?

Change is a common idiom. Many people only know how to use it to describe a wide variety of numbers, but they don't know its origin. Here I explain the meanings from two aspects.

One is the explanation in the idiom dictionary. Five flowers? Originally refers to the five-flower array in ancient art of war. Eight doors? Eight-gate array in ancient art of war is the name of the array in ancient times. Because these two arrays have various changes, they were later used to describe various meanings.

Second, with the passage of time, there are various metaphors for all walks of life in ancient times. Among them? Five flowers? It refers to Jin Juhua, kapok, daffodil, pyracantha and native cowflower. Jin Juhua is an ancient tea, which means that people who sell tea are businessmen. Kapok refers to people who practice medicine, that is, doctors. Narcissus is enchanting and colorful, referring to prostitutes, and pyracantha flowers are in full swing, implying jugglers, and native cattle flowers refer to porters who are coolies. Eight doors refer to gold, leather, color, hanging, evaluation, group, tune and chat. These eight doors also imply a profession. First, a scarf refers to a scholar wearing a scarf, implying a fortune teller; The second skin refers to the doctor who buys and sells herbs, not the businessman who does the fur business; The third color refers not to actors who sing operas, but to jugglers, that is, magicians today; The fourth door refers to the procrastination of Jianghu artists; As the name implies, the fifth comment refers to the storyteller, from which the later storytelling was handed down; The troupe represents the ancient street singers, that is, today? Street singer? ; The seventh tune refers to folk paper-binding artists; The eighth chat does not refer to the person who chats with others, but refers to the actor who sings opera on the high platform.

Ancient culture is extensive and profound, and each idiom has its own unique historical origin. What we have to do is to carefully ponder its historical charm and harvest the crystallization of ancient wisdom.