three kinds of nuns(sān gū liù pó)

three kinds of nuns

San Gu Liu Po, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ā ng ū Li ù P ó, which means several occupations of women in ancient China. In modern Chinese, "San Gu Liu Po" often refers to all kinds of market women in society. From the record of stopping farming.

Analysis of Idioms

Good women

Idiom usage

I have heard that there are three aunts and six women in your area. Once they are introduced, women are ignorant and are often harmed by them. They either cheat money or abduct clothes. (Chapter 12 of Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty)

The origin of Idioms

The 13th volume of Tao Zongyi's "records of stopping farming" in Yuan Dynasty: "the three aunts are nuns, Taoists and guagu; the six aunts are yapo, matchmaker, Shipo, qianpo, Yaopo and wenpo."

Chinese PinYin : sān gū liù pó