"360 lines, each line is the best", but what lines are there?

Thirty-six lines are the general name of the main social industries in China in the Tang Dynasty, reflecting the division of labor of social industries at that time. Line 36 extends the industry classification theory of line 72 or line 360 commonly used in China.

The exposition of thirty-six lines can be found in Hui Zhou's Qing Bo Zalu in the Song Dynasty. Tsui Hark said in Clearing Money, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce: "Thirty-six walkers, various occupations. As far as the division of labor is concerned, it is 36 lines, 72 lines, and 360 lines ten times. " It can be seen that line 36 is only an imaginary indicator, not a specific number.

major industry

The thirty-six lines refer to: meat shop, palace powder shop, clothing shop, jade shop, autumn treasure shop, silk shop, hemp shop, jewelry shop, paper shop, seafood shop, fresh fish shop, furniture shop, tea shop, bamboo shop, rice shop, iron shop, ancient embroidery shop, needle and thread shop, soup shop, medicine shop, Zazuo shop and so on.

Farming once, studying twice, three dozen irons, four or five sailboats in grinding bean curd,

Six Woods, seven bamboos, eight carved flowers, nine spinning and ten weaving lang,

1 1 tailors make clothes, 12 are tinkers,

Thirteen grocers, fourteen polishers,

Fifteen shoemakers' shoes, sixteen sawworkers suffer,

Seventeen monks play outfield, eighteen nuns play and sing,

Nineteen Taoist priests sang the phoenix, and twenty boys counted the land halls.

Twenty-one Jingling fortune tellers, twenty-two face-to-face readers,

Twenty-three hexagrams wear robes, and twenty-four fishing drums sing love.

The woodcutter is on the mountain; 26 doctors sell fake drugs,

Twenty-seven fun tricks to sing, twenty-eight fists to keep fit,

Twenty-nine martial arts performers went out to repair umbrellas on thirty rainy days.

Thirty-two people go out to sharpen scissors on sunny days, and thirty-two people repair the house the dirtiest.

Thirty-three pick eight, thirty-four three-person sedan chairs,

Thirty-five is a barber, and the last line is to see the cowherd.