Modern people live to seventy years old is a casual thing, look around the people you know you will find that people nowadays live very nourishing. In the square of each city in these years, everywhere in the flourishing square dance you look at the orderly pair are grandparents generation of elderly people in the dance of the old dance happy and happy to enjoy their happy time. Especially in the city bus when the card, every time you will hear the voice prompts of the birthday card. And look at these old "longevity" on the bus where a where the ancients called longevity model ah! It is simply the look of a middle-aged healthy man!
From the heart of the year: because "thirty and standing, forty and not confused." (Confucius said: "I ten have five and ambition to learn, ...... Seventy and from the heart." -The Analects of Confucius - for the political"), so later generations called the age of 70 for "from the heart of the year".
Ancient Rare: In ancient times, it was not easy for people to live up to 70 years old. Du Fu said in a poem: "Wine debt is not common, life is seventy years old." Later generations have followed this poem, saying that 70 years old is "the year of ancient rarity".
Ancient Rare Life: refers to the 70th birthday. It originated from Du Fu's poem "Life at 70 is ancient and rare".
Ancient Rare Years, Years of Hanging, Years of Staffing: all refer to the age of 70. Today, we only know it as the age of rarity, while the other designations are hardly known. Remember, the year of the staff and circumference: means 70 years of age. The middle life: seventy is the middle life. The year of the cart: means 70 years old.
77 years old the ancients called Xishou: refers to 77 years old, the cursive character for happy seems to be seventy-seven, so the special substitution refers to 77 years old.
Anecdote: in ancient times, the seventy-year-old man called the ancient rare, eighty years old called the oldest old, ninety years old called what it
80 years old, the ancients called the year of the Chao Mai, the year of the Chao Zhi, the oldest old [mao] old age [die] of the year: refers to the age of eighty or ninety years old.
The eighties and nineties: refers to the age of eighty or ninety years, refers to old age in general, such as: the old eighties and nineties, the oldest and oldest years.
Senile: eighty [mào], "Salt and Iron Theory - Filial Piety and Nurture" wrote: "Seventy is said to be eighty or ninety." The Book of Rites - Qu Li says: "Eighty-nine and ten is said to be old." The oldest [dié], "Er Ya - interpretation of the words" note: "Eighty for the oldest." Combining the above statements, we can see that "oldest old" refers to a person's longevity, which is about "seven years old and eighty years old". Eighty [mào] eighty [dié]: refers to old age. The age of eighty or ninety years old. The age of eighty or ninety is the age of eighty or ninety. Eighty (mao) old (die) refers to eighty or ninety years old. Mao Chuan also said, "old, old, eighty is said to be old." Later people called the eighty or ninety-year-old old man as "eighty-nine".
The eighty [mao] oldest [die] years: refers to eighty or ninety years old. Ninety years old can also be called the oldest old.
Mid-life: refers to 80 years old and above. Umbrella life 80 years old birthday. Because the cursive form of the word "umbrella" resembles "eighty", it is called "umbrella life".
Mi Shou: 88 years old. Because the character for rice is like eighty-eight, it is used to refer to the age of 88. In addition, it also contains the meaning of high age, but appetite.