Who are the three aunts and six grandmothers?

Tao, a scholar in Yuan Dynasty, first put forward the theory of "three aunts and six women". The book refers to "three aunts and six grandmothers" as women engaged in nine occupations in the old society, specifically referring to: "three aunts, nuns, Taoist aunts, and divinatory aunts; Six women, tooth women, matchmaker, teacher women, devout women, medicine women and stable women. " The detailed explanation is as follows:

Third aunt:

1, nun: refers to Buddhist women who become monks. According to Sanskrit, nuns are also "women". In ancient Indian Buddhism, young women who became monks were called Shamini and older women were called female monks. In China, people call Shamini and female monk nun in Buddhism, which is somewhat derogatory.

2. Taoist: Taoist woman who points out her family.

3. Guagu: refers to a woman who specializes in divination and fortune telling. She belongs to a religious person and is engaged in divination, fortune telling and fortune telling.

Liupo:

1, Yapo: In the old society, women who profited by introducing human trafficking were traffickers.

2. Matchmaker: In the old society, women took speaking and marriage as their profession. The matchmaker played the role of matchmaking in the marriage in the old society. The male matchmaker is called Yue Lao and the female matchmaker is called the matchmaker.

3. Shipo: A woman who lives by witchcraft, also known as a witch.

4. Qianpo: also known as the pimp, the pimp who opened a brothel in the old society.

5. Medicine girl: also called medicine girl. In the old society, people were women who treated diseases as their profession, but the sham as the genuine. In the old countryside, some women used fake medicines to cheat money.

6, stable woman: also known as hidden woman, midwife, midwife, midwife, old woman and so on. , refers to the old folk women who deliver babies for women.