堕民,又称惰贫,绍兴地方志也称乐户、丐户,绍兴老百姓习惯上称男性为大贫、堕贫,女性为老嫚,未婚女孩为鳗线(鳗与嫚谐音,鳗线即小鳗),他们世代为固定主顾(绍兴人为区别于一般含义主顾,把顾读成 kū)做特定的服务(狭义上的堕民业),是被人歧视的贱民阶层。绍兴曾是堕民的最大聚居地,抗战前浙江省有过统 Abandoned, also known as the poor, Shaoxing, local chronicles also known as musicians, beggars households, Shaoxing people used to refer to men as the big poor, falling into poverty, women for the elderly, unmarried girls eel line Small eel), their generation as a fixed customer (Shaoxing people different from the general meaning of the patrons, the Gu Ducheng) to do specific services (in the narrow sense of the decline of the people), is discrimination in the Dalit class. Shaoxing was once the largest enclave of the fallen into the country, and Zhejiang Province had a pre-war anti-Japanese war