The legal wife of the master of the house. She is the only mother of all children in the family while their biological mothers can only be called yiniang 姨娘, which means aunties, since they are the concubines.
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The legal wife of the master of the house. She is the only mother of all children in the family while their biological mothers can only be called yiniang 姨娘, which means aunties, since they are the concubines.