In rural areas, many families are unable to breastfeed their babies after giving birth because their mothers have little milk, or their mothers are extremely weak, some are entangled in diseases, and some even die during childbirth. There are also wealthy families who entrust their children to wet nurses because they don't want to take care of them.

Most of the wet nurses are middle-aged people in rural areas, and their children die young, and they have enough milk after giving birth. There are also some people who give their children away with plenty of milk. They breast-feed others with their own milk and get some economic returns from it.

Because it usually takes one to three or four years for a nurse to nurse a child, the child has been with the nurse since childhood and stayed on the nurse's nipple, forming a special feeling between the child and the nurse. The relationship between the wet nurse and the adopted son is still quite deep. In some places, biological mothers have been alienated from their children since childhood, while wet nurses are nursing children who are not their own, but they have mother-child feelings.

When the children grow up, some of them have been with the wet nurse's children since childhood. This becomes the baby's brother or sister, brother and sister. This kind of affection formed when children are together also makes the wet nurse's family form a kind of affection close to their children. In rural areas around Xinzhou and Yanbei in Shanxi, the relationship between wet nurse and wet nurse can last for a lifetime.

When the children grow up, the wet nurse often visits and takes care of the children, and the children often visit and take care of the wet nurse, helping the wet nurse to do the work at home and giving her some financial help. This is considered to be in line with the etiquette and communication practices in rural Shanxi. The child's biological parents will also understand this problem and will often check the child to do so. This is a form of non-blood relationship and relatives' communication in rural areas.

Zeng Guofan, a famous frontier official in Qing dynasty, made a couplet after the death of his wet nurse: one meal is still known, the situation is guaranteed, and he is only ten months pregnant; A thousand dollars is hard to pay back. When it comes to human physics, you will cry for three years. It can be said that this couplet is a fair evaluation of me as a wet nurse.

Nannies are also called nannies, nurses, wet nurses, wet nurses, grandmothers, grandmothers, tits and so on. There are all kinds of names, which vary from time to time. But in a word, she is a profession that specializes in breastfeeding and taking care of children.

There are many reasons why this industry has existed since ancient times. In the past, children's biological mothers were mostly rich and powerful, and it was a privilege for servants to support their children. In the folk, it is more difficult for Diao's biological mother to support herself because of her weak body and lack of milk, so she hired milk to help raise her. When the wet nurse is a poor woman in the countryside, she gives up feeding her own baby and feeds other people's children with her own milk. It is a maid who is nursing the baby.

The profession of wet nurse appeared very early, and there is a saying in the Book of Rites that "the son of a gentleman eats his mother". The children of dignitaries were brought up by wet nurses, and the feudal society was customized. There are dozens of young women waiting to be selected outside the palace, most of whom are rural women who have just given birth and have enough milk, aged between 15 and 20. No one paid attention to their status, but once they were elected to the palace, they were fed by the crown prince's stomach and chicken son, and they became people from then on. As the saying goes, "once you choose a person, you will have money all your life" refers to this generation.

The royal wet nurses of all dynasties were dignitaries, and even if they left the palace halfway, they would be respected in the village and have no worries about food and clothing. In the book Wan Ji Shu written by Shen Bang in the Ming Dynasty, it is recorded that the titty house belongs to the Royal Guards, and 40 good women are selected to enter the titty house every quarter, which is called sitting on tits. Choose another book for 80 people, called Dianmao tits. People run away from this industry, so they often become extremely short of breasts.

There are many wet nurses who have cared for the prince, many of whom were given titles after the prince ascended the throne. For example, the wet nurse king of Emperor Han 'an in Rudong is extremely "wild king"; Our wet nurse Song is the "goat army", and our wet nurse Yu is the "Enping army". One of the most outstanding is the wet nurse who succeeded Ming Chengzong. It was named "Mrs. Baosheng Xianshun". I used to play politics with Wei Zhongxian, and I was very arrogant for a long time. "Chronicle of the Ming Dynasty" records: "The attendants are far more prosperous than the holy driving, surrounded by lanterns and torches, and the clothes are bright and beautiful, like gods." After the death of Emperor Chengzong, the Hakkas died with the Yan Party.

The folk wet nurses are different, and most of them are women who lead by example. After many families gave birth to Bian's baby, the mother's milk was not enough to breastfeed the baby, or the mother was extremely weak. Some of them are entangled in diseases, and some even die prematurely during childbirth. There are also wealthy families who don't want to take care of their children themselves, but entrust their children to a wet nurse to feed them. Nanny, breast-feed others with her own milk and get some financial reward.

Because most children need to be breastfed for one to three or four years, children have been with their wet nurses all day since childhood, forming a very deep special feeling between them. This has produced many touching stories. For example, stories such as "Ivy gave her life to protect the Lord" and "The wet nurse severely reprimanded Kou Zhun" are all written in ancient books, which are remembered in history and respected by future generations.

When Zheng Banqiao was three years old, his mother was seriously ill in bed and dying. Banqiao was young and ignorant, and the wanderer "went to bed and hugged his mother to lie down. I don't know if her mother is still yelling." Later, it was brought up by a wet nurse. Banqiao's unforgettable life is that his wet nurse treated her well when her family was poor. Therefore, I once wrote the poem of the wet nurse as a souvenir, saying:

I am not lonely in my life;

Long-term hatred of wealth and late arrival makes you feel ashamed for a long time.