18th century manservants accused of being maidservants in disguise

Part 3 of “The use of the term ‘renyao’ through the ages”

In earlier posts, we looked at the use of the term “renyao” in texts from the 7^th through the 10^th centuries.  Yue Ke (1183—1243)[1] also used the term in Tingshi 桯史, a collection of historical notes from the Song era. The section Renyao of Suqu recorded two anecdotes about people of unusual physical appearance: