Less than a week old - swaddling clothes; ?
2~3 years old - child;?
Girls 7 years old - tufts;?
Boys 8 years old - milk year;?
The general term for the youngest years - the chief angle;?
Under 10 years of age - Huangkou, a term for a young child who is not yet free of childishness;?
13~15 years old - the year of the dancing spoon;?
15 to 20 years old - the year of the elephant dance;?
12 years old (female) - the year of the golden hairpin;?
13 years old (female) - the year of the cardamom, ?
15 years old (female) - the year of maturity; ?
15 years old (male) - the year of learning;?
16 years old (female) - the year of the broken melon, Jasper years, 28 years;?
20 years old (female) - the year of peach and plum;?
24 years old (female) - the age of flowers and letters;?
To get married - the year of the plum, the year of the plum;?
To 30 (female) - half-aged;?
20 years old (male) - the crown;?
30 years (male) - the age of maturity; ?
Prime age - springtime;?
40 years old (male) - not confused, strong years; ?
50 years old - over half a hundred years old, the year of knowing what is wrong, the year of knowing what is right, the year of ai sui, the year of great diffusion;?
60 years old - the year of the flower armor, the year of the flat head, the year of the smooth ear, the year of the staff village, the year of the return of the calendar;?
70 years old - old and thin, the year of the staff of the country, the year to the matter, the year of the government, from the heart of the year, the year of the cart;?
80~90 years old - the oldest age;?
90 years old mackerel years;?
100 years old - the period of Yi, can also be called "people Swiss".
1. Tufts of hair: tufts of hair (tiáo), the period of young children. In ancient times, children had short hair that naturally hung down when they had not yet tied their hair, so it was called "hanging hair". Tao Yuanming's "Records of the Peach Blossom Garden" (桃花源記): "Yellow hair is tufted on the hair, and they are happy and self-satisfied." When girls are 7 years old, they are called "tufts of hair", and when boys are 8 years old, they are called "milky years".
2, the total horn: the total horn is eight or nine years old to thirteen or fourteen years old teenagers, the ancient children will hair divided into left and right halves, in the top of the head each tied into a knot, the shape of the two horns of the goat, so it is called "the total horn.
3, yellow mouth: this refers to the beak of the nestling bird, referring to children; the ancient household service system said that the child is yellow, the Sui dynasty to less than three years of age for the youngest child yellow, the Tang dynasty to the newborn baby for yellow. Later, children under the age of ten are generalized as "yellow mouth".
4, the year of the dance spoon: refers to the boy 13 - 15 years old. According to & lt; Rites & gt; records: spoon, a kind of music and dance, the ancient practice of children who have not yet become. Dance spoon refers to the learning of the spoon dance for the underage. The Book of Rites. Internal rules": "ten three years to learn music, poetry and dance spoon. Adults learn to shoot and defend by dancing with elephants." Kong Yingda: "The one who dances with the spoon, Xiong, said: 'The spoon is also the key.' When I was thirteen, I learned to dance with a spoon." Later to refer to the young.
5, the year of the dance of the elephant: "dance of the elephant" is also synonymous with adult children. Originally, it was the name of an ancient martial arts dance. Rituals - Nei Zi: "into a child, dance elephant, learning to shoot and defend." "Shuo" said: "into a child, said more than fifteen; dance elephant, said dance martial arts also. Xiong's cloud: 'is said to use the small dance of the dry go also.'" Dancing elephant - male fifteen ~ twenty years old.
6, the year of the golden hairpin: the woman is 12 years old. Southern Liang Dynasty - Emperor Wu's "Water Song in the River": "Twelve rows of gold hairpin on the head, the feet of the silk shoes five articles." Girls to twelve years old to bring hairpin .
7, douzhi: perennial herb, a metaphor for the virgin. Refers to the woman at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Tang Du Mu "farewell" poem: "graceful curls more than thirteen, cardamom tips in early February."
8, maturity: hairpin. In ancient times, when a woman was fifteen years old, she was promised to wear a hairpin that year; not promised to wear a hairpin at the age of twenty. In ancient times, when a woman reached the age of 15, she tied her hair and put it on with a hairpin, so it was said that when a woman reached the age of 15, she had reached the age of maturity. It also refers to the age of marriage, such as "years have reached maturity".
9, weak crown: ancient men at the age of 20 to perform the crown ceremony. So the main "weak crown" instead of 20 years old, weak is young, the crown is wearing an adult hat, but also to hold a big ceremony. Zuo Si "Wing You" poem: "weak crown get soft Han, the old eminent view of the group book."
10, the year of ambition: for 15 years old. Language from the "Analects? For political": "The son said: 'I ten five and will be learning, thirty and standing, forty and not confused, fifty and know the fate of heaven, sixty and smooth ears, seventy and from the heart.'" That's why later generations called the age of 15 "the year of learning".
11, broken melon Nianhua: broken melon Nianhua (Jasper Nianhua), which is the old literati will "melon" word split into two eights in order to chronicle the year (melon in the Clerical Script and the North and South Dynasty Weibei style can be split into two eights). Sources: "Song Xie Youliu: 'A small waist at the age of a broken melon'" (Tongluan Zhi - Women). According to the popular saying, a woman's body is broken into melons, but this is not true. The word "melon" is broken into two eights, which means that she is twenty-eight years old." The first time I saw this, I was able to see it in the back of my head.
12, Peach and Li Nianhua: can only refer to the woman's 20 years old, the man's can not be so called, or very mother. The source of the words, may be from Lu You's poem: "powder light fragrance from a family, did not allow the peach and plum accounted for the years. Often think of Nanzheng Qingming Road, drunken sleeves to meet the wind and snow a fork."
13, flower letter: flower letter, flowering period. Refers to the woman's age to twenty-four years old. It also refers to the woman's age when she is young and beautiful. Source: Song Fan Chengda, "Lianyin after Yuanxi": "Who can urge the flower letter with waist drums, and quickly play Yangzhou's hundred-faced thunder." ?
14. Biu Mei: Biu Mei: The plums fall down when they are ripe. It is a metaphor for a woman who has reached the age of marriage. Origin and Sources The Classic of Poetry - Zao Nan - Biu Mei: "Biu Mei is actually seven. I am looking for a commoner to marry me, and I will be there when the time is right."
15. Half-aged Xu Niang: People often use the term "half-aged Xu Niang" to refer to women who are old and still have a sense of style. Half old Xu Niang" word originated in the North and South Dynasties. Xu Niang name Xu Zhao Pei. She was the consort of Emperor Yuan of Liang in the Southern Dynasty.
She was too old. But she was still dressed up. It's not a good idea. It's not decent. So. Some people say: "The woman is half old. Still in love." About the "flirtatiousness" of "Xu Niang". Southern History. Consort biography. Liang Yuan Di Xu Fei> there is a very brief record. Song Chen Heyi's poem <Book of Memories> in the "open window to meet a smile. I do not realize that Xu Niang old" two lines can be seen Xu Niang's flirtatious. Later people will use "half old Xu Niang" or "Xu Niang half old" to satirize those who are over the age of the wind and flirtatious. They are also called "Xu Niang". Some people also call themselves Xu Niang. Contains the meaning of self-effacement and self-esteem. Therefore, can not be "half old Xu Niang" as a derogatory term.
16, eighty-nine years old: eighty or ninety years old. Eighty-nine, sound "bubble", old, sound "iterative". Eighty-nine years old refers to people who are very old. The eighties and nineties, when the age is very big Etymology "Han - Cao Cao - Song of Wine": "The eighties and nineties are all able to end of life, the grace is wide and grass and insects."
17, mackerel years: In all the age designation, "ninety" can be called the most interesting. The mackerel is a kind of fish, and the spots on its back are like the wrinkled skin of an old man. In the twilight of one's life, age spots appear on the skin like the skin of a frozen pear, so it is also called "frozen pear". Chub mackerel (鲐tái), also known as mackerel, chub mackerel, and mackerel (chub mackerel). A small mackerel (Pneumatophorus grex) found in most warm sea areas. Dorsal greenish-white, with dark blue undulating stripes on the upper side of the body. It lives in the sea and is abundant in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea. For example: mackerel (mackerel-like markings) is used as a substitute for the elderly [old man].
18, the age of Yi: Yi: a hundred-year-old man. Derived from the Han Dynasty, Dai Sheng edited the "Rituals - Qu Ji chapter": "life ten years said young, learning; twenty said weak, crown; thirty said strong, there is a room ...... eighty said eighty, ninety said eighty, ninety said ninety ...... a hundred years said the period of Yi." Means that life in a hundred years, so called 100 years old for the "period of the Yi year." Period, Zhu Xi said is "the meaning of the circle", that is, turned a circle, "said a hundred years has been week". Yi, Zhu Xi said is "said when raised only". That is, living and living to be maintained. Yi means a person who is 100 years old. It means that at this point in time, the food and living expects the children and grandchildren to be raised and cared for. Chen Hao, a Yuanist, explained, "A person's life expectancy is one hundred years, so it is called the period; the diet, living and moving people are not to be raised, so it is called the Yi." Zheng Xuan note: "period, Judah to be also; Yi, also raise. I do not know the clothes, food and flavor, filial son to do to raise the road only." Meaning: people to a hundred years old, food, housing and other aspects of the need for filial piety care, so "100 years old" is called "Yi".