What does third aunt mean?

The meaning of Sangu: refers to nuns, Taoist nuns and divinatory nuns.

Taoist nuns are the names of Taoist female monks, and nuns are the names of Buddhist female monks. Because of different religions, Taoist and nun have different clothes, hairstyles, instruments and places where they practice and live on weekdays.

Taoist priests and nuns belong to different religions, and their costumes, hairstyles, instruments they wear, and places where they practice and live on weekdays are also different. Taoist priests wear robes, mainly blue and black. It is recorded in Daming Hui Dian that Taoist priests all wear green clothes.

A nun wears a robe, mainly gray, which is called Christina, also known as Ziyi. In A Dream of Red Mansions, when Xi Chun became a monk, he mentioned a poem: The scenery in the third spring did not last long, and the clothes were changed for the makeup the year before.

There are also differences between Taoist and nun hairstyles. Taoist priests need to store their hair and roll it up. "Taoist head" is a bit like the popular "meatball head", and nuns need to cut their hair gradually, mainly bald.

Taoist priests and nuns wear different instruments. The instrument worn by Taoist priests is called a dust blower, which is a long-handled vessel fried with animal hair. The most commonly worn instrument for nuns is Buddha beads, which are made of wood and then strung into necklaces or bracelets.

The daily life and practice places of Taoist priests and nuns are also different. Taoists live and practice in Taoist temples, which are exclusive places for Taoism, and nuns live and practice in Buddhist temples, which are exclusive places for Buddhism.