Three aunts and six wives refer to

Three kinds of nuns and six kinds of old women-suspicious people who make a living by dishonest means

The idiom "three aunts and six grandmothers" was clearly recorded in writing as early as the Yuan Dynasty. In modern society, "three aunts and six grandmothers" refer to the female elders in the family, such as aunts, aunts, etc., including the aunts in the neighborhood, and can all be called "three aunts and six grandmothers".

But in ancient times, "three aunts and six grandmothers" represented the professional identity of some women, and their identity background was really not simple. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a writer named Tao compiled a book "Dropping out of Farming". In this book, Tao sorted out the background identity of "three aunts and six grandmothers" in detail.

"Sangu" refers to nuns, Taoist nuns and divinatory nuns. A Buddhist woman who points out her family. Taoist: People's address for Taoist female monks. Prophetess: A woman who divines and calculates predictions in ancient times. All of them belong to religious people, and they are the medium between man and god in religion, which plays an important role in women's folk beliefs.

"Six women" refer to the tooth women, the matchmaker, the teacher women, the pious women, the medicine women and the steady women. Yapo: A woman who introduces people to buy and sell and profits from it. Matchmaker: Matchmaker. Shiva: A goddess or witch who prays for others, spells, and gods. Qianpo: Mrs. Brothel. Medicine woman: A woman who sells medicine to treat diseases. Steady woman: a woman who delivers a baby to a pregnant woman.