The Twenty Six Malignant Gates epigraph is based on stories people have told for many years.
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Sometimes mothers do know best
A girl goes against her mother
The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, also known as the nursery rhyme or cautionary tale in the book "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan, is said to contain dangerous and harmful things that children should avoid. However, the actual contents of the Twenty-Six Malignant Gates are not explicitly mentioned in the book. It is left to the reader's imagination, leaving the nature of the gates and what they contain open-ended.
Tans use of the Twenty Six Malignant Gates epigraph suggests that folk wisdom while illogical on one level is that it is still a form of wisdom nonetheless.