Men are called dancing elephants: men are fifteen to twenty years old.
The woman is called "waiting for the year": a woman who has reached the age of majority and is waiting to be married, also known as "waiting for the word".
The language is from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty (后汉书-曹皇后记). Later on, it was called "Yanyuan" for the years when a woman was waiting to be married.
Infant: a person's first birth.
Swaddling clothes: a general term for a person under one year of age.
Childhood: two to three years old.
Beginning to replace the milk teeth and tufts of hair: a girl is seven years old.
Beginning of the replacement of the milk teeth and the milky year: the boy is eight years old. Explanation: According to the physiological condition, when a boy is eight years old and a girl is seven years old, they change their teeth, shed their milk teeth and grow permanent teeth, which is called "replacing the milk teeth", "shedding the milk teeth" or "tufts of hair".
The general term for young children.
The Year of the Bun: refers to children. (Anciently, a child's hair was hanging down, and by extension, it refers to a person who has not yet reached the age of majority.)
Huangkou: under ten years old.
Young school: ten years old. (Because the ancient script had no punctuation, people intercepted the word "幼学" and used it as a substitute for ten years old.)
The year of the golden hairpin: the girl is twelve years old.
Cardamom age: a woman is 13 or 14 years old.
The year of the dancing spoon: thirteen to fifteen years old.
Expanded:
Ancient people's age was sometimes not expressed in numbers, and instead of directly stating how old someone was or how old they were, an age-related title was used instead.
Tiáo (垂髫) is a child between the ages of three or four and eight or nine (髫, the short hair that hangs down from a child's head in ancient times).
Tiáo are children between the ages of eight or nine and thirteen or fourteen (in ancient times, children divided their hair into left and right halves and tied them into a knot at the top of their head, which resembled two ram's horns, hence the name "tiáo").
Age designation is the ancient name for age, the age of the ancients sometimes do not use numbers, but with other designations to indicate. Most of the age designations were recorded in books, and then used to this day.