What do you mean by "three aunts and six wives"?

Three aunts and six women refer to several occupations of ancient folk women in China.

Sangu refers to nuns, Taoist nuns and divinatory nuns. A nun is a Buddhist woman who points out her family. Daogu is the title of Taoist goddess. 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.

Six women refer to women with teeth, matchmakers, teachers, devout women, medicine women and steady women. Yapo is a woman who introduces people to buy and sell and profits from it; Matchmaker, as the name implies, is the matchmaker; A devout woman, that is, our familiar brothel pimp; Shiva, that is, we are familiar with witches or witches; Medicine woman, in the old days, refers to women who treat diseases as their profession; A steady woman is a woman who gave birth to a woman in the old society.

Allusions of "three aunts and six grandmothers"

As far as the source is concerned, it actually existed in the Yuan Dynasty. Tao Zongyi, a litterateur in Yuan Dynasty, made a clear stipulation on three aunts and six daughters in Didi Tian Lu: "Three aunts are nuns, Taoist nuns and divinatory nuns; Six women, tooth women, matchmaker, teacher women, devout women, medicine women and stable women. "

Compared with modern times, three aunts and six grandmothers are actually unpopular with ordinary people. At that time, many people thought that only by shutting out these three aunts and six grandmothers could they be called legal families. The reason for this is that these three aunts and six grandmothers are really eloquent, which sometimes brings a great burden of public opinion to these families. At that time, there were even martial arts novels that specifically pointed out the horror of three aunts and six grandmothers: "The Story of Zen Truth" "The old woman is so short and long that it leads to trouble. Listening to Sangu dialect in the boudoir can make you worse. "