Confucius said: "I am determined to learn ten-fifths. I will stand firm at thirty; I will not be confused at forty; I will know the destiny at fifty; I will follow the destiny at sixty; I will walk at seventy without exceeding the rules." So there is The year of ambition, the year of status, the year of doubt, the year of heart. What other age titles do you know? How big do childhood, total horn, cardamom, and weak crown represent respectively? Look at the picture to find your age and title!
Among all the age titles, the title "ninety" is the most interesting. Or "silver back," a silver carp is a fish with markings like old man's wrinkled skin. As people age, age spots such as frozen pear skin appear on their skin, so they are also called "frozen pears".
There are also names based on physiological characteristics. For example, a person is called "baby" as soon as he is born, because he needs to be held on the chest for feeding. You can wear a fake baby, and the fake one has breasts. A baby is a child held on the chest. Seven years old is also called "Mourning" and "Broken Tooth Snow Lotus Ice Cart". The reason why it is called this is because this is the period when teeth are changing. Fifteen-year-olds are called "children". "If there is no grass in the mountains, they are called children." In ancient times, adults reached adulthood at the age of 16. Men were not crowned at the age of 15, and women were not crowned. This is a metaphor.
In addition, what we often call "the year of establishment", "the year of not being confused" and "the year of knowing one's destiny" all come from the records in "The Analects of Confucius for Politics": "Confucius said: Five out of ten are determined. Learn to stand up at thirty, not to be confused at forty, to know the destiny at fifty, to follow your ears at sixty, and to do whatever you want at seventy."
Han Daisheng compiled "Book of Rites and Qu Ji Chapter" and said: "Life is ten years old. Young, weak at twenty, strong at thirty, strong at forty, loving at fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty or ninety, one hundred years old." Among them is the saying "old people are guilty". However, later generations often regard "Young Pi" and "Weak Guan" as age titles. This is probably the reason why later generations' vocabulary developed from monosyllable to bisyllable.
In China, there is also a tradition of counting years, with 60 years as a cycle, so there is also a saying that 60 years is the "year of the sixtieth". Du Fu once said in a poem, "Liquor debts are everywhere, and life is rare in seventy years." Therefore, seventy has another name "seventy years old".
Of course, there are more than these titles in ancient times. Many of them are scattered in various ancient books and have not been handed down because they are rarely used. The ones mentioned above have been used by later generations because of their high frequency of use and strong vitality. Some of them have entered our daily communication, such as "Standing at Thirty". For another example, from the words "baby" and "child", we can no longer see the difference between history and today.