The ancients usually referred to 13-year-old daughter as "in the prime of life", which means that the beauty of women has begun to take shape, but it is not in bud. Cardamom is often used to describe a woman, indicating that she has entered a young age in her life. The year of dancing spoon means that boys learn dancing spoon from 13 to 15. Spoon is a kind of music and dance. In ancient times, Xi refers to immature children, and dance spoon refers to the dance that immature children learn.
The ancients called other age groups as follows:
1, ancient 1 year old, nicknamed "Fang Ya": Fang Ya: onomatopoeia, the voice of a baby learning a language. Like babbling, it also means that children begin to learn words.
2.2 years old in ancient times, also known as "childhood": childhood: refers to a child who was still in infancy when he just learned to laugh. Others write "children's bags" or "carrying children", referring to children aged 2-3.
3. In ancient times, the age of 7 was also called "Tong Bi": Tong Bi: A child's deciduous teeth fell off and permanent teeth grew out, which was called "Tong Bi". "Tongbi" often refers to a person's childhood and adolescence. Also known as "parallel".
4. Ancient 10 years old, also known as "kindergarten": kindergarten: ten years old. "Book of Rites Quli Shang": "Life is ten years, and you learn when you are young." Because there were no punctuation marks in ancient Chinese characters, people intercepted the word "kindergarten" as a proxy for ten years old.
5. The ancient woman was 65,438+02 years old, also known as "Jin Chai Nian": Jin Chai Nian: When a girl reaches the age of 12, she must take Chai and Jin Chai as pronouns and nicknames.
6. Ancient woman 15 years old, also known as "Ba Nian": and "Ba" originally refers to the ancient hairpin used for hair binding. Generally, after 15 years old, ancient women rolled up their hair and covered it with a hair clasp, indicating that they had reached adulthood. "She" refers to a woman who has reached the age of 15. And logistics: refers to a fifteen-year-old woman.
7. The ancient woman was 20 years old, also called "Tao": Tao was synonymous with the 20-year-old woman. Tao Li: It is a metaphor for people's youth. Ancient men were 20 years old, also known as "weak crown": it refers to a 20-year-old man. The ancient man was crowned at the age of 20, indicating that he had reached adulthood.
8. Ancient women were 24 years old, also known as "flowers in love": flowers in love: refers to women's age of 24. It also refers to young and beautiful women.
9. Ancient women were 30 years old, also known as "semi-old Xu Niang": semi-old Xu Niang: refers to women who still have charm in middle age. In order to satirize those women who are still attractive and well-dressed in those years, some people call themselves Xu Niang, which means inferiority. The ancients were thirty years old, also known as "Li", and the Analects of Confucius stood at thirty.
10, the ancient woman was 40 years old, otherwise it was called "old pearl yellow": old pearl yellow: Generally speaking, women are useless when they are old. In ancient times, it was said that women were despised when they were old, just like pearls lost their luster because of age. The ancients were forty years old, not to be called "not confused". He said that the Analects of Confucius was "forty without confusion".
1 1. The ancients were 50 years old, also known as "the year of know life": the year of know life, which means knowing the destiny, means 50 years old.
12. The ancients were 60 years old, also known as "the year of 60 flowers": China has used heavenly stems and earthly branches to date each other intricately since ancient times, which can form 60 pairs of branches, so it is called "60 branches" or "60 flowers", so 60 years old is also called "the year of 60 flowers".
13. The ancients were 70 years old, also known as "seventy years old": seventy years old means that people reached 70 years old. From "Two Poems of Qujiang".
14, the ancients were 80 to 90 years old, and there was another "octogenarian": octogenarian, used as a general term for the elderly. From Cao Cao's "To Wine": "All old friends can die, and the favor is extended."
15, the ancients were 90 to 100 years old, otherwise known as "Yi". Yi: centenarians. Life is a hundred years, so it is a period; I am happy when food, drink and shelter are moving.