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."
three kinds of nuns
with grey eyebrows and hoary hair - chóu méi hào fā
resign from office and return to one 's native town - gào lǎo huán xiāng
a straw shows which way the wind blows - luò yè zhī qiū
Death of Zhuge scares away shengzhongda - sǐ zhū gé xià zǒu shēng zhòng dá
constant departure and reunion of friends - xuě zhōng hóng zhǎo