Cardamom is a metaphor for a girl of thirteen or fourteen.
Related examples:
1. Modern writer Lu Xun, "And Jieting Miscellaneous Writings Two Collected Essays on "People's Words Can Be Fearful"": "When it comes to women, we have to play with our talents, either 'Xu Niang half-aged, charm is still alive', or 'Cardamom years, delicate and lovely'". ', or 'cardamom years, delicate and lovely'."
2. Modern writer Shi Sanyou's "Jinling Wild History of Qinhuai Songstress Wang Xichun": "The songstresses who come here to perform are half-aged Xu Niang, cardamom-aged teenagers, and under-aged toddlers."
Expanded Information
Anciently, the age of 15 was the year of the child, that is to say, no longer a child, i.e., the hair was tied up and enrolled in school. Men to twenty held the "crown ceremony", that is, the crown, can be practiced, engaged in, for the official, etc. carry on.
Ancient people often pointed to the belly for marriage, or early engagement, to be married after adulthood. Most of the time, the man was eighteen (or twenty) and the woman was fifteen (or sixteen).
Related Metaphorical Appellations:
1. Childhood: total horn, tufts of hair
2. 8 years old (male): the year of the milky teeth
3. 10 years old or younger: yellow mouth
4. 10 years old (female): the year of the bun
5. 12 years old (female): the year of the golden hairpin
6. 13-15 years old : The Year of the Dancing Spoon
7, 15-20: The Year of the Dancing Elephant
8, 20 (male): The Weak Crown
Baidu Encyclopedia - Cardamom Years