Little knowledge of literature: Who are the three aunts and six grandmothers?

Who are the three aunts and six grandmothers?

Three aunts refer to: nuns, Taoist nuns and divinatory nuns.

Six women refer to: tooth girl, matchmaker, teacher girl, pious girl, medicine girl and steady girl.

Nun: A nun is a Buddhist woman who points out her home.

Gu Dao: Gu Dao is what people call a female Taoist.

Guagu: Guagu was an ancient woman who used divination and divination.

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.

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Yapo: Yapo is a woman who introduces people to buy and sell and benefits from it. In ancient times, human trafficking was legal and allowed. We can see this kind of bridge in many novels or TV series, and aunt is the bridge between the sale of population.

Matchmaker: Matchmaker, as the name implies, is the matchmaker. In ancient times, the marriage etiquette was strict, emphasizing three books and six rituals, and all of them were indispensable. Even if an ordinary family gets married, it needs a matchmaker to negotiate and match the bridge.

Matchmaker: a pious woman, also known as Mrs. Brothel. A woman who runs a brothel and manages or controls prostitutes, also known as madam, is a title for the proprietress of a brothel. They are the intermediate link between prostitutes and clients in brothels, and their function is also equivalent to matchmaking.

Shipo: Shipo, also known as witch or witch, is a kind of woman whose occupation is praying for others, casting spells and divining. Witchcraft was very popular from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties until the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period and the Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty advocated "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", and witchcraft gradually declined. After the founding of New China, it was suppressed as superstition, but it still prevailed in the mainland, and Shipo still believed in it.

Medicine woman: medicine woman, in the old days, the folk refers to women who take medical treatment as their profession. They sell herbs and Chinese patent medicines, such as toothache medicine, anti-abortion medicine and abortion medicine, and use clay to treat people. Officially recognized female doctors with professional knowledge and female barefoot doctors who play hooligans in the market are both called medicine women, which is difficult to distinguish.

Wenpo: Wenpo was a woman who gave birth to women in the old society. Due to the differences in historical period, north-south region and national culture, different places have different names, including "hidden woman", "midwife" and "midwife".