The old saying goes: "Three hundred and sixty lines, lines out of the yuan." During the Qing Guangxu period, Xu Ke's "Qing Barnyard Banknotes and Agricultural Merchants" said: "Thirty-six elements, all kinds of occupations also." According to its division of labor, it is called thirty-six lines; if it is multiplied, it is seventy-two lines; and if it is ten, it is three hundred and sixty lines. It can be seen that "three hundred and sixty lines" is only an approximation.
Now we are talking about "three hundred and sixty lines" developed from the Tang Dynasty's division of labor in social industries. The Tang Dynasty divided the social industry into three hundred and sixty lines, including meat row, seafood row, fresh fish row, wine row, rice row, sauce row, palace powder row, flower and fruit row, tea shop row, soup shop row, medicine shop row, garment line, silk row, Gu embroidery line, needle and thread line, leather row, zha zuo line, firewood row, coffin row, old row, servant row, net row, drum music line, juggler line, picking line, jewelry line, jade line, paper row, literary house line, utensils line, bamboo forest line, pottery line, Yi Chuan line, iron ware line, flower yarn line, witch line, etc.
Let's take a look at who are the grandfathers of each line?
1. Construction industry (bamboo masons): Spring and Autumn Luban
Gong Luoshi (公肓氏), courtesy name, was a native of the Lu state during the Spring and Autumn Period. It is homophonous with the class, so it is called Luban. He once created a siege ladder and a milled stone, and is also said to have invented wood tools. In the old days, construction craftsmen were revered as ancestors.
2. Agriculture: Shennong (Houji)
Shennong, one of the Three Emperors of The Ancient Chinese Empire, the legendary inventor of agriculture and medicine, tasted hundreds of herbs and taught people medicine and farming.
3. Tailoring industry: Xuanyuan (Yellow Emperor)
Xuanyuan is a compound surname, that is, the Yellow Emperor. Later generations respected him as the "first ancestor of humanity" of Chinese civilization. It is rumored that the Yellow Emperor once taught the people to use bone needles to thread twines to sew leaves and animal skins to make clothes. Therefore, he is revered as a grandmaster by the sewing industry.
4. Silk industry, textile industry: Changzu (wife of the Yellow Emperor)
Legend has it that she was the wife of the Yellow Emperor, who once taught the people to raise silkworms to cure silk, and was regarded as a silkworm god after the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
5. Weaving: Zodiac
Zodiac Po, also known as Huang Po, was a female textile technician in the Yuan Dynasty. It is admired by the people for teaching advanced textile technology and promoting advanced textile tools. During the Qing Dynasty, it was revered as the ancestor of the cloth industry.
6. Dyeing industry, laundry industry: Mei Ge Erxian (Western Han Meifu, Eastern Jin Gehong)
Mei Ge is the combined name of Mei Fu and Hong. They were all alchemists of alchemy, and alchemy had some relationship with printing and dyeing raw materials, and it is said that various dyes were extracted in alchemy and were used by later generations to print and dye cloth and paper.
7. Smelting and casting industry (iron, copper, silversmith): Spring and Autumn Laozi (Taishang Laojun)
Legend has it that Lao Tzu once forged the Bagua Furnace (later known as the "LaoJun Furnace") to refine dan medicine for immortality.
8. Education: Confucius
Confucius, Spring and Autumn Lu Guoren, Dacheng Most Holy Ancestor, Wanshi Master Table.
9. Business: Zhao Gongming, (Spring and Autumn Fan Li)
Zhao Gongming is also known as Zhao Xuantan, also known as Zhao Gongyuan Division. The Taoist god of wealth. It resembles a black-faced beard, wearing an iron crown on its head, holding an iron whip in its hand, and straddling a black tiger. Legend has it that it can drive away lightning and electricity, remove plague and disaster, uphold justice, and seek wealth and happiness.
Fan Li (范蠡), also spelled Shaobo , a native of chu (present-day Nanyang, Henan), who assisted the King of Yue in destroying Wu, abandoned the palace to do business after his achievements, and you Qiguo was called Yizipi (鸱夷子皮), and in Tao (present-day Dingtao, Shandong) he was called Tao Zhugong( Tao Zhugong, and his business was "three to a thousand gold" and scattered to help the poor, and his shang virtue was highly respected by posterity.
10. Catering industry: Spring and Autumn Yiya
Yi Ya, a famous chef in the Spring and Autumn Period, was also written as Di Ya. He was a close courtier of qi huan gong, and was used as a yongren, that is, a chef who specialized in cooking Qi Huan gong's diet. He is good at seasoning, so he is very pleasing to Qi Huangong.
11. Winemaking industry: Xia Dynasty Yidi, (Xia Dynasty Dukang)
"The only way to relieve your worries is Du Kang." Legend has it that Yi Di or Du Kang are the founders of the wine, if I have to say a difference: Yi Di is the founder of yellow wine, and Du Kang is the founder of sorghum wine.
12. Ham industry: Song Dynasty Zongze
The famous anti-Gold general Zong Ze is a native of Yiwu, Jinhua, Zhejiang, who once brought his hometown pickled pork leg into the offering to Song Qinzong, the salted pork leg meat color, aroma and taste are complete, because the color is bright red as fire, Song Qinzong gave the name "ham", and since then the ham has become a tribute.
13. Tofu industry: Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty
Liu An was the grandson of Liu Bang and was enfeoffed as the King of Huainan. When he was boiling the elixir, he inadvertently made a tofu brain (i.e., water tofu) with soybeans and salt brine.
14. Pickle industry: Qin Shi Huang
It is said that when the Great Wall was built, Qin Shi Huang came up with a way to turn green vegetables into pickles, which solved the problem of migrant workers eating vegetables for a long time.
15. Steamed bun industry, cake industry: Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms
During the Three Kingdoms period, when Zhuge Liang led his army to return triumphantly, passing through Lushui, the rampant gods obstructed the way to wait for human heads to be sacrificed, Zhuge Liang instead used beef and horse meat as stuffing, and outsourced flour into steamed buns to replace sacrifices and was revered.
16. Pastry industry: Wen Zhong
King Wu cut down the silk, and the king sent the taishi Wen Zhong to lead the troops to resist, and Wen Zhong made a sweet cake as dry food for the march. Later, this kind of cake spread to the people, and it was called Taishi cake. Wen Zhong was also enshrined as an ancestor by the pastry industry.
17. Roast duck industry: Zhu Yuanzhang
It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang said that the emperor was the capital of Nanjing, and he loved to eat duck meat, but when he ate too much boiled, braised and steamed duck, he felt bored and sullen all day. The imperial court cooks racked their brains and changed the traditional cooking method, using fruit charcoal to hang on the stove to bake, so that the duck meat is tender, fat and not greasy, and was named "roast duck" by Zhu Yuanzhang.
18. Shabu-shabu: Kublai Khan
It is said that Kublai Khan fought in the south, and was busy eating during the battle break, and the chef did not have time to make the traditional lamb stew, so he cut the lamb into thin slices and used boiling water to shabu, found that the taste was very sweet, and has been spread ever since.
19, restaurant tea house industry: stove jun, confused real jun
20. Hotel industry: Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms
Guan Yu was an upright man and believed in his deeds, so he was respected as an ancestor for future generations as an official and a businessman.
21. Barber industry: Lu Dongbin
One of the Eight Immortals. According to legend, Tang Jingzhao, because he once beheaded Jiaojiao in Jianghuai, was respected by posterity as the ancestor of the barbering industry.
22. Bathhouse Karma: Zhigong Zen Master
ZhiGong,also known as Zhigong (智公), was a Zen master of Baozhi, a high monk of the Southern Dynasty, known as Zhigong monk. The Beijing bathhouse industry was created by pedicures, and the pedicure Feng Zhigong was the ancestor, so the bathhouse industry also enshrined Zhigong as the ancestor.
23. Tourism: Xu Xiake at the end of the Ming Dynasty
Xu Xiake, a famous geographer and traveler. Author of the famous Chinese geographical book "Xu Xia's Travels". Known as the "Ancient Odd Man".
24. Traditional Chinese medicine industry: Warring States Bian Que, Three Kingdoms Huatuo
During the Warring States period, the medical scientist Bian Que founded the "four diagnoses" of looking, smelling, asking and cutting, and later generations respected him as the ancestor of Chinese medicine.
25. Chinese medicine: Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty
Li Shizhen, Zi Dongbi, was an outstanding medical scientist of the Ming Dynasty. He is the author of many medical books such as the Compendium of Materia Medica.
26. Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Sun Simiao of the Tang Dynasty
Sun Simiao was a Tang Dynasty physician. He wrote "A Thousand Golden Fangs", which was praised by later generations as the "Medicine King".
27. Traditional Chinese Medicine Surgery: Three Kingdoms Huatuo
Hua Tuo Mingfu (Chinese: 华佗名甫), also spelled Tianhua, once created hemp boiling powder (anesthetic) for surgical use, so he was revered as the "originator of surgery".
28. Traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture: the only one in the Northern Song Dynasty
Wang Wei, a Song Dynasty acupuncturist, also known as Wang Weide, designed and presided over the casting of two acupuncture copper figures, the body and organs of the copper man can be combined and divided, and the body surface is engraved with the name of acupuncture acupuncture points for teaching and examination. It has had a great impact at home and abroad.
29. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Chen Jinggu of the Tang Dynasty
Chen Jinggu, nicknamed Chen XIV, is known as NiangNiu, Milk Lady, Lady Milk, Lady Linshui, Lady Chen Milk, And so on. Chen Jinggu is one of the folk beliefs of the Han nationality, and it has pinned on the working people of the Han nationality a good wish to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome good fortune and blessings.
30, plaster industry: iron abduction plum
One of the Eight Immortals, because legend has it that the large gourd on his back preserves the magic elixir. Therefore, later people engaged in the plaster industry in Chinese society regarded him as their ancestor.
31. Veterinary industry: Spring and Autumn Bole (Sun Yang)
Sun Yang is a Bole in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, and is good at soma.
32. Pen making industry: Qin Dynasty Mengtian
Meng Tian is a famous qin general. Legend has it that the brush was improved.
33. Paper industry: Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty
Cai Lun summed up the papermaking experience since the Western Han Dynasty, improved the papermaking technology, and used bark, hemp heads, rags, and old fishing nets as raw materials for papermaking, and was the inventor of papermaking in China.
34. Printing industry: Northern Song Dynasty Bisheng
Bi Sheng, an ancient Chinese inventor and inventor of movable type printing.
35. Painting industry: Wu Daozi of the Tang Dynasty
The Kaiyuan Daoist of the Tang Dynasty was good at poetry and painting.
36. Stationery bookstore industry: Wenchang Emperor Jun
Emperor Wenchang, son of the Yellow Emperor, was known as Zhang, who was good at creating strings and Zhang nets, so he took Zhang as his surname, and successive generations of students as Confucians, who assisted the Duke of Zhou, paid attention to the classics, and was deeply respected by the scholars and literati of the world.
37. Yan Ink Industry: Chunqiuzi Road (Confucius Student)
Zilu was a student of Confucius and passed it on in ink.
38. Kanyu Numerology Fate, Fortune Telling: Spring and Autumn Ghost Valley
Because Oniguzi was good at divination and calculation, he was worshipped as a grandmaster by the fortune teller.
39. Ren Xiangye: Fenghou Clan
The Fenghou clan, the prime minister of the ancient Yellow Emperor, was proficient in xiangshu and pioneered the study of wind appreciation.
40. Fate: Mai Xian
Mai Xian, proficient in folk xiangren, wrote the Mai Xiang Method and passed it down to the world.
41. Face to face: Liu Bowen of the Ming Dynasty
Liu Ji, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, the character Bowen. He is known for his clever calculations and strategic planning.
42. Feng Shui Xing: Guo Pu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
Guo Pu was a famous writer, hermenist, and feng shui scholar of the Two Jin Dynasties, who was a good ancient chinese, odd character, astronomer, almanac, and bu zheng.
43. Kiln industry: Nuwa Niangniang
The myth records that Nuwa refined stones and replenished the heavens, and was the inventor of the ancestor of the kiln industry.
44. Fishery: Jiang Shang of the Western Zhou Dynasty
Jiang Taigong, a famous Shang, lived in seclusion and fished in Weishui, and was honored as a national teacher when he met King Wen.
45. Aquaculture: Dragon King
46. Beauty industry: Li Yu in the Qing Dynasty
Li Yu , a Qing Dynasty opera composer known as Li Shilang , was proficient in composing music and directing artists in their posture performances and makeup.
47. Prostitution: Guan Zhong
Guan Zhong pioneered the municipal brothel and became the founder of the prostitution system.
48, called Chemical Industry: Five Generations of Southern Tang Han Xizai
Han Xizai liked to pretend to be a beggar and begged in front of the wives' concubines' rooms.
49. Servants: Zhong Sanlang
50. Silver Building: Ouqi Buddha
51. Banking and pawn shops: Zhao Gongming
52. Tea industry: Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty
Lu Yu, a tang fuzhou jingling person, the word Hong gradually. Sexually witty, he wrote books behind closed doors, and did not want to be an official. Famous for his tea lover, he is very researched about the tea ceremony and is regarded as a "tea god".
53, needle industry: bangs
54. Firecracker industry: Ma Jun
55, jade industry: white-clad gentleman
56. Jade Practitioner: Qiu Zhiji
Qiu Chuji was an ancient Chinese jade celebrity.
57. Betel nut industry: Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty
Han Yu, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, Han Yu was demoted to Chaozhou because of his criticism of current politics, suffered from wet and cold diseases due to the disobedience of water and soil, and recovered from eating betel nuts.
58. Slaughtering: Emperor Zhenwu
When Emperor Zhenwu was young, he was engaged in killing pigs, but he had a kind heart, and later for Guanyin Bodhisattva, he put down his butcher's knife and became a Buddha.
59, bamboo industry: green people
60. Bamboo craftsmen: Taishan, Zhang Ban
61, copper and iron industry: felt to explore the ancestors
62, white blacksmith: Baiyun Old Ancestor
63. Leather shoe industry: Warring States Sun Zhen
Sun Bin could not walk on his feet and could not support himself. So he designed a kind of shoe similar to high-waisted leather boots, which is also the ancestor of leather shoes in the world.
64. Pedicure: Zhigong Zen master Chen Qizi
According to legend, there is a pedicure knife hanging on the Zhigong Zen staff, and he once repaired the feet and cured foot diseases for Buddhas Shakyamuni, Dharma Laozu and King Wen of Zhou. Chen Qizi learned from the barber's ancestor Luo Zu in his childhood, and because of his greedy play and frolicking, Master Zun was greatly angry, and in a rage, he broke his razor and scolded: "You play and go"! Chen Qizi had to use half a razor to repair foot diseases for people, and later he had to get real people to guide the craftsmanship to become more refined, thus creating a pedicure line.
65. Cobbler: Bald Buddha
66, the sharpener: the emperor immediately
67. Zaliusmith: Fan Dan
68. ZacaiShi: Zen master
69. Pottery: Ning Fengzi
70, paint industry: Yu's
71, carving and lacquer industry: Yu Boya
72, clay sculpture, face sculpture industry: Nuwa
73, fur line, cooked leather industry: than dry
74. Combing grate line: Helian, Chen Qizi, Zhang Ban
75. Sugar Mill: Zou Monk
76, cattle teeth: horse god
77, flower row, flower farmer: flower king god
78. Incubation industry: Zhang Wu, Lu Xianggong
79. Fireworks industry: Zhu Rong
80, dried and fresh fruit line: queen mother niangniang
The fruit growers and fruit merchants wanted to worship the Queen Mother because they said that she had two treasures, one was the elixir of immortality, and the other was to eat the peach that could live forever.
81. Granary Ancestor: Han Xin of the Western Han Dynasty
82. Song art industry: Tang Dynasty Lao Lang God
Legend has it that in the Tang Dynasty, a gray wolf turned into a boy dressed in red to guide the children of the imperial pear garden to practice singing with extraordinary results, in order to entertain the Tang Ming Emperor.
83. Opera Industry: Tang Xuanzong Li Longji
Tang Xuanzong once summoned song and dance artists and palace women to learn art in Pear Garden, and often personally played the soundtrack with a hammer and drum. Therefore, later generations called opera artists "Pear Garden Brothers".
84. Commentary (speaking) of the book industry: Liu Jingting at the end of the Ming Dynasty
Commentaries are called commentaries in ancient times, also known as drum books and board words. Liu Jingting, whose original surname was Cao, was a native of Tongzhou (present-day Nantong, Jiangsu), and was known as the "Liu Commentary" by posterity.
85. Qu Yixing: King Zhuang of Zhou
86. Crosstalk: Western Han Dynasty Oriental Shuo
Dongfang Shuo was worshipped as the grandfather by posterity in the cross-talk industry because of his humor and humor, quick wit, and good at laughing and entertaining people.
87, rap Sentiments: Zhang Guolao
Zhang Guo, one of the Eight Immortals, often carries a Taoist love tube, rides a white donkey upside down, travels in all directions, and sings Daoist sentiments.
88. Music Line: Hong Ya (White Eyebrow God)
89. Juggling, acrobatics: Lü Dongbin
90. The ancestor of shadow puppetry: Li Shaoweng of the Western Han Dynasty
91. Puppet Master: Western Zhou Yanshi
92. Drummer Ancestor: Spring and Autumn Shi Kuang
93. Martial Arts: Zhang Sanfeng of the Ming Dynasty
94. Thief Ancestor: Northern Song Dynasty
Shi Qian was named the leader of the army's secret infantry in Liangshan, and people said that he was the nether realm of the earth star in the sky, for the "earth thief star drum on the flea shi qian", no wonder the thieves wanted to worship him as the grandfather.
95, the matchmaker ancestor: the old man under the moon
The old man under the moon is a legendary god and a god who is in charge of marriage on earth.
96. Judicial and prison ancestors: Gao Tao
Legend has it that he is a descendant of Shao hao (玄蹟), the eldest son of the Yellow Emperor, the head of the "Five Emperors" of ancient China, and the leader of the Dongyi tribe. Gao Tao was a sage of Emperor Shun and the early Xia Dynasty, and according to legend, he was born during the reign of Emperor Yao, and was once appointed by Shun as a "magistrate" in charge of criminal law, and was known for his integrity.
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