Anciently, a woman of 20 was called "Peach and Plum". Peach and plum: a metaphor for a person's youthfulness. It is from Ming Xu Wei's "And Kai Yan Gong": "I vow to collect the effect of Mulberry and Elm, so as not to be disgraced by Peach and Plum, a snow of this statement, and the reward of elegant ambition."
Floral letter (woman 20-25 years old): now the woman to 24, 25 years old, are to be called "leftover women", but the ancients have given this age group of women a very beautiful name - flower letter years.
Floral letter is the wind that comes in response to the flowering season. The letter wind in the festival brings the sound of blossoms, and the woman, at 24 years old, is also at the time of her youth and beauty.
Fan Chengda's poem: "who can beat the drum to urge the flower letter, quickly hit the Yangzhou hundred thunder", the poet in order to see the moment of blossom, the idea of beating the drum to urge the flower, the ancients are still so romantic, how do we instead of the good years as a person old and yellow?
Expanded
1, red (0 years old): the skin of the newborn baby slightly red, the ancients will be at this time the child called "red". The heart of a child is a pure heart that is as immaculate as that of a newborn child.
2, childish (2-3 years old): this time the baby has grown a little, but can not walk, have to be held by adults. The word "tiyi" refers to the action of an adult grasping the child's armpits and picking him up, while "孩" is not a child but an ancient word for "cough," describing the child's giggling in his swaddling clothes.
3. Tufts of hair (3-9 years old) and total horns (9-13 years old): Ancient people would name the age of a child by its hair. Before the age of 9, a child's hair was not braided, but hung down naturally, called "tufts of hair", and after that, the hair was tied in a knot on each side, like two ram's horns, called "total horns". In the Book of Songs, "the feast of the chief horns is full of laughter", where the hero and the heroine are young and innocent, and the feelings of the young may be immature, but they are full of beautiful poetic meaning.
4, the weak crown (men 20 years old): the ceremony of the crown, is one of the most solemn ceremonies in ancient times. Witnessed by the family, a man who has reached the age of 20 is crowned by a designated dignitary in the clan temple to signify his adulthood. Because men at this age are not yet strong, they are also known as "weak crowns".
"When a gentleman begins to crown himself, he will wish for a rite of passage and add a crown to his heart." Twenty of the youth rich in youth, blood and vigor, and the ceremony, it is to remind them, the future of life, no matter fell or hit the head of blood, always be blameless, no regrets.
5, and the year (30 years old): more than 2000 years ago, Confucius said "thirty and standing", since then "thirty" has become the Chinese measure of the ability of men to settle down in society.
Men in ancient times started their families earlier than today. They could marry at the age of 15 or 6, and in their 20s they had children and grandchildren, so there was no shortage of children and grandchildren before the age of 40, so it was a matter of honor to be thirty years old in those days.