Which clans are referred to by the nine clans?

Strain nine clans, in ancient times, there are a variety of interpretations and sayings, one is: ? From the high ancestor, down to the Yuan Sun, all nine clans? ;

Another statement is: ? Nine clans, the father clan four, mother clan three, wife clan two? But actually more often? The nine clans? is a kind of? False name? Probably means that the emperor is very unhappy, think kill you a person is not enough to solve the hate, so he wants to kill your relatives, but in anger, and can not move the hands of the index of your relatives in the end, can only say? The nine clans are involved? The emperor's wrath was expressed in this way. And why must say? Nine clans? Instead of seven, eight, six, five it, this is because in the ancient traditional culture, nine of this number represents the highest number, anyway, his meaning is to kill all of your relatives one are not left meaning. But then, there has never been an emperor complete the scope of the nine clans divided out, who knows your family with relatives with which people it, if then a bad, coincidentally, there is a person, for the emperor is very important, but it is your relatives, and then the words of the son of God can not be recovered this is not time to be very embarrassed. But? Nine clans? The second statement refers to the generation of relatives, there is a very accurate description.

Father's family four? This refers to the whole family plus the married aunt and her son, plus the married sister and nephew, plus the married daughter and grandson.

The mother's family of three? This refers to the mother's father's family which is the grandfather's family, plus the mother's mother's family which is the grandmother's family, plus the mother's siblings and their sons' whole family.

The wife's family two? This refers to the whole family of the father-in-law and the whole family of the mother-in-law's mother's family. These above ranges pretty much encompass all the relatives as a way to show the wrath of the emperor. There was one emperor who took the emperor's anger to the extreme and invented the ? the "Ten Families"? that is, Ming Chengzu killed Fang Xiaoru and executed him? Ten clans? This is on the basis of the nine clans, his students also added also became? Ten clans? The first time I saw this, I was able to get the money to pay for it.