In ancient times, could a woman open a shop?

Can ancient women "do business"? A: Yes. Many businessmen.

In ancient times, only women from official families and large families did not show up for business. Generally speaking, women from farmers and poor families buy and sell knitting, cotton spinning, embroidery and brocade themselves. In ancient times, there were restaurants specializing in selling wine, and most of them were women.

For example, Gu Dasao, a female snail in the Water Margin, opened a hotel outside the East Gate of Dengzhou. Sun Erniang opened a restaurant to sell human flesh in Cross Slope of Mengzhou Road and Jasmine Zhang. In the water margin, Mrs. Wang opened a teahouse, which is also a business.

When a woman comes of age, it is a business for her to go to other people's homes voluntarily or under the pressure of life to be an old maid, wet nurse or servant girl and earn hard money (monthly money and salary) every month.

Matchmakers succeed in matchmaking for others, but also take a certain amount of money that is customary among the people. This is also a business.

The pimps in ancient brothels were also in business.

Women who play opera and acrobatics are all in business.

Even the Naihe Bridge in the underworld, which is widely rumored by primitive Taoism in China, has Meng Po selling soup for the dead. It shows that ancient women ran their own businesses, but compared with the number, distance and events of men, they were much less.