"Lady" originated from "Lady Lear" in the Book of Songs. Confucius said that "Lady is a woman with a talent", which means that a woman has masculine achievements and talents, which is also a title of respect for a woman with knowledge and cultivation.
"Woman Xia" and "The Scholars" (4 1) record: "She is a woman Xia, but she has many heroes." This is a general term for elderly women.
"Girl", there's a phrase in Gu Yuefu's "Mulan Ci", "I didn't know Mulan was a girl after twelve years of traveling together". It symbolizes the ambition of "a woman in the middle" and is also synonymous with young women.
The word "woman" comes from the Book of Jin, which is an ornament representing women on the heads of ancient women. At that time, Zhuge Liang attacked Wei and challenged Sima Yi many times. When the other side didn't take the battle, Zhuge Liang left the women's headdress in order to humiliate him. Later, people often called the heroes among women "heroines".
"Women's history" refers to women who were learned in ancient times and served as officials in charge of the etiquette, classics and documents of court queens.
"Skirt" is the costume decoration of ancient women, generally referring to women. This word often appears in novels and plays. A Dream of Red Mansions (1): "My eyebrows are open and I am sincere." "Lady" refers to a gentle, kind and beautiful woman, and is often called in literary works. The Book of Songs Nan Zhou Guanju: "Guanju dove is in Hezhou. My fair lady, a gentleman is good. "
A "girl" refers to a woman in her prime. 【 stunning beauty 】 refers to the unparalleled beauty in the world.
There are many beautiful women in Yan and Zhao, all of whom are Yan Ruyu. Therefore, young and beautiful women are always called "Jade Man", "Bi Man", "Beauty", "Jade Girl", "Jiao Wa", "Xi Shi", "stunner" and "Qing E".
"Talented woman" refers to a woman with literary talent.
"Don't be a scholar" refers to a talented woman.
【 foliage proposal 】 refers to a frivolous and delicate woman.
"Soft jade and warm fragrance" refers to a gentle young woman.
"Bitter plum on the roadside" refers to abandoned women.
"Xiaojiabiyu" refers to the beauty in a small family. There is a saying in the "Jasper Song" in the ancient Yuefu that "Jasper is a little girl and dare not climb your virtue".
A beautiful and faithful woman is called "Luo Fu".
An ugly and virtuous woman is called "no salt"
Address other people's daughters as "Qianjin", "Lingyuan" and "microscope".
Address other people's wives as "madam" and "madam", except for "meeting place", "room owner" and "room room". Address your wife as "wife", "wife", "wife", "wife" and so on.
Among the appellations of women, "mother" is the greatest and noblest. In Cold Records of Miscellaneous Knowledge in Qing Dynasty, Er Ya called her mother Cong, The Book of Songs called her mother Mu Shi, The Book of Northern Qi called her mother Ma Shi, and Hou Zi of Han Shu called her mother Taifuren. Other records include: the emperor's mother is called "Empress Dowager", the official's mother is called "Taijun" and the ordinary people's mother is called "Mother".
2. Men and women in classical Chinese call themselves emperors, and others can't use them.
In addition to the emperor, others said as follows:
To put it bluntly, I, Yu, Yu and Mou are equivalent to "I" now.
Humble: next, humble, incompetent, boy, just.
Call yourself a descendant of an elder (usually irrelevant).
Compared with their younger peers, they call themselves "silly brothers".
Compared with their older peers, they call themselves "little brothers".
Self-proclaimed to the boss: Xiaguan, humble position.
The old woman calls herself modest-the old woman calls herself her husband-the princess and the queen call herself modest in front of the emperor-the princess and the queen call themselves courtiers-my palace, the widowed empress dowager-the folk woman calls herself a little woman, and the unmarried woman calls herself a domestic slave. Married. At that time, women often called themselves "concubines" when writing, and Liu called herself "younger brother", which shows that she hoped to communicate with literati on an equal footing.
3. How did ancient women call themselves "I"? Ancient women called themselves "I": Nu Wa. In the past, women called themselves.
Quotations: Clear Sky Ren Shang's Peach Blossom Fan Refuses Media: "I am married to Hou Lang, so I don't want to change my mind."
Translation: "Our family has married Houlang. Will we change our minds? "
Women are humbly called "concubine", "concubine" and "handmaiden".
Old women are modestly called "old women".
The princess and queen called themselves "concubines" before the emperor.
The princess and queen called themselves "my palace" in front of courtiers.
The widowed Empress Dowager Cixi called herself "bereavement".
Folk women call themselves "little women".
A woman's humble name is "handmaid".
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Modesty of ancient people
1. an attitude of humility, which used to call itself.
Fool, modestly calling himself not smart. Despicable and modest, claiming to have little knowledge. We humbly call ourselves or our things bad. Humble, call yourself humble. Stealing means privately, privately, and it often means bold and abrupt when used. I humbly declare that I am not as tall as the other person. Servant, humbly calling himself the servant of the other party, uses it to mean serving the other party.
Second, the ancient emperors' words of self-modesty included loneliness (the king of villains), widowhood (the person without virtue) and lack of hub (incompetence).
Three, the words of ancient officials' modesty are Xiaguan, Last Guan, Small Guan and Beizhi.
4. What are the words that girls call themselves: old woman, concubine, slave family, handmaid, concubine, etc.
A, old woman [l m: o sh ē n] old woman's self-proclaimed (more common in early vernacular).
The source of the fifth and third chapters of The Scholars said: "My sincere grandmother said,' Grandpa four, I think I have lived in Nanjing for more than fifty years. " "
Second, my body [qiè shēn] In the old society, women claimed to be modest.
Source "Surprise at the First Moment" Volume 27: "If Master is willing to accept as a disciple, it will be the fruit of my body."
Third, the female family [nú jiā] young women claim to be (more common in early vernacular).
The third source of Water Margin: "I am from Tokyo." W: I'm from Tokyo.
Fourth, a woman whose handmaid is enslaved. The modesty of ancient women is translated as "I".
Source: "Zuo Zhuan Xi Gong Twenty-two Years": "Handmaid, the name of women is also low." A handmaid is a title of respect for a woman.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) concubine: a concubine of low status. Ancient women claimed to be modest.
Source: Qing Jiang Shiquan's "Xiangzulou": "I treat my wife so well!"
5. What are the self-proclaimed words of girls? The old woman calls herself modest —— The old woman calls herself her husband —— The princess and queen call themselves in front of the emperor —— The princess and queen call themselves in front of the courtiers —— The widowed empress dowager of my palace —— The folk woman calls herself a little woman, and a woman in cloth calls herself modestly. For example, an unmarried woman said, "I don't know, but I'm from Tokyo, and I don't want to move to Nanjing, because I came to Weizhou to visit my relatives with my parents."
Mother fell ill and died in the inn. Father and daughter live like this all their lives.
There is a rich man here, called Zheng Daguan, the "real Kansai". Seeing the slave family, he forced the media to protect him and asked him to be a concubine. Who is willing to write three thousand documents, empty money and real deeds, and beg me?
After less than three months, his first wife was very interested and kicked out all the slaves, so she couldn't finish collecting them, and left them at her master's house for the original value of 3 thousand yuan. Father is too weak to argue with him.
He is rich and powerful. I didn't take a penny from him at first, and now I want to beg for money to pay him back? There's nothing I can do. My father taught me some ditties since I was a child. He came here to get a seat in the restaurant. But he has some money every day, and most of it is returned to him, leaving a few fathers and daughters to travel.
There are few people drinking these two days, which violates his money limit, and he is afraid that he will lose face when he comes to beg. Father and daughter cried at the thought of this pain and nowhere to tell.
I don't want to make mistakes, I hope to beg for mercy and be lenient! "Married women say that my concubine Wen Zhishi doesn't drink water from stealing springs, and dishonest people don't feed it. What's more, there is a female brother in the late Ming Dynasty. Liu appreciated the talent and took the initiative to write and visit in person, calling himself the "female brother" on the famous post. At that time, women often called themselves "concubines" when writing, and Liu called herself "younger brother", which shows that she hoped to communicate with literati on an equal footing.
The maid asked the maid to wait on the towel rack. -Zuo Chuangong twenty-two years.
Note: "handmaid, women are also contemptible." Others: "I"-humbly calling myself or my own things bad, such as me, modestly calling myself; My family name, humbly address my family name; I am humble about my house and residence.
"Humble"-call yourself humble. "Servant"-humbly call yourself the servant of the other party, and using it means serving the other party.
"Dare"-means to take the liberty of asking others. If you dare to ask, it is used to ask each other questions; Dare to ask, used to ask someone to do something.
6. How to say "girl" in ancient Chinese "girl" is generally called "woman" in classical Chinese, or by other names: beauty, tea, caterpillar, powder, beauty, beautiful girl, jasper, cardamom and so on.
Most of these appellations for women focus on appearance, costume makeup and so on, such as the following: 1, tea. This refers to women's tea, not beautiful women.
For example, Bai Juyi's Ode to Wine in the Tang Dynasty: "You should get drunk first tonight, so tea is annoying." Everyone is not drunk tonight and needs the help of beautiful women. )
2. Red skirt. This refers to the skirt worn by women and also refers to women.
For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu's "Drunken Gift Book": "Chang 'an is full of rich children, and it is endless fun; I can't understand the lyrics, but I can indulge in the red dress. "Changan those rich kids, there are all kinds of gamey meat.
If you don't know the elegant taste of literati drinking, you will only get drunk among women. ) 3, red powder.
This refers to rouge and white powder for women's makeup, and also refers to beautiful women. For example, Li Shangyin's "Ma Wei" in the Tang Dynasty: "Ji Ma Yan rhinoceros moved to the ground and buried the red powder into ashes."
An Lushan's military forces were menacing, and the emperor was forced to give Yang a death present, which was buried in a hurry and soon turned to dust. The "red powder" here refers to Yang Guifei. )
4, powder. Here refers to the white powder painted on women's faces and the blue-black pigment used for thrush, which refers to beauty.
For example, Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow in the Tang Dynasty: "If she just turns her head and smiles, there will be hundreds of spells cast, and the six palaces will fade away." Looking back and smiling, many people can be charmed, and all the concubines in the Sixth Hospital have lost their beauty. )
5, moth eyebrows. Here refers to the slender and curved eyebrows of women, which is synonymous with beauty.
For example, Gao Shi's Song of the Frontier in the Tang Dynasty said, "Sluts fight from the army, while moths, eyebrows and cicadas keep empty boudoir." The husband has been in the army for many years, and the beautiful wife lives alone in the boudoir every day. )
6. Beauty. This refers to a woman's beautiful face, but also to a beautiful woman.
For example, in the Qing Dynasty, Wu's "Yuan Yuanqu": "Crying for six armies is a loss, and rushing to the crown is a beauty." The whole army cried and put on white mourning clothes, but they did not know that the general was angry for beauty. )
7. skirts. Because women wear skirts to insert women, they are called skirt girls.
For example, Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty: "I am a handsome man, and I am loyal." I think I am a man, but I am not as good as a woman. )
Extended information ancient women's names of all ages: 1, humble origin: refers to childhood. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the Jian 'an period, the peacock flew southeast and wrote, "When I was a daughter, I was born in the wild."
Born in a small place and raised in Shan Ye) 2. Total angle: total, bunching; Jiao, a small bun, means sending and receiving knots, that is, the way children's buns are separated upwards, commonly known as Xiaoya Jiao, so childhood is called "total angle". From The Book of Songs Qi Feng Fu Tian: "Wan Xi Bo Xi, General Corner is embarrassed."
(translation: the beautiful child is so pitiful, and he is still wearing a small croissant braid. There was a girl in ancient times who was called Niannian at the age of seven.
The word comes from Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden in Jin Dynasty: "I have yellow hair and enjoy myself." Old people and children are very comfortable and happy, and they have a good time.
4, cardamom: especially suitable for girls aged thirteen or fourteen. From Du Mu's Farewell in the Tang Dynasty: "Thirteen watches, the first two months of cardamom."
(Translation: Beautiful girl is light and beautiful, over thirteen years old; She is like a bean flower in February, with budding branches, tender leaves and beautiful flowers, swaying in the wind and beautiful. ) 5, and logistics: ancient women/kloc-over 0/5 years old, there is logistics, because women/kloc-over 0/5 years old are logistics.
It also means that you have reached marriageable age, such as "the year is over". From the Book of Rites: "A woman ... died five years later".
When a woman reaches the age of fifteen, she needs to comb her hair. She is old enough to get married. 6. Waiting for one year: refers to the adult marriage of women, also known as "waiting for a word".
From the book "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty". Ye Fan, a Southern Song Dynasty poet, wrote "The Biography of Queen Mu Cao". The original text reads: "Cao Cao entered the three women's constitutions, festivals and Huawei, and hired 50,000 silks. The young ones stayed in the country for many years." "The young one will stay in this country for several years."
Cao Cao married his three daughters, Cao Xian, Cao Jie and Cao Hua, to Liu Xie, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and received 50,000 silk as a dowry. The youngest daughter stayed in Guo Feng temporarily and was sent to the palace when she was old enough to get married. ) 7. A: It means 50 years old.
From the Confucian scholars' Book of Rites Quli Shang in the Qin and Han Dynasties, "Fifty Say Ai". Fifty hairs are as white as wormwood. )
8. Huajia (Ershun): refers to the 60-year-old name named after the trunk. From the Tang Dynasty Zhao Mu's "Duijiu", sixty flowers are handed out, and the cycle is like a pearl.
Touching a 60-year-old beard with your hand is like playing with beads over and over again. 9. Shantou: refers to the elderly, also known as "white head".
From "The Biography of Lu Qiang in the Later Han Dynasty": "Therefore, Qiu Duan Ying and Wu Yong, the world, are used to border affairs and have great achievements." As a result, Qiu, who has a heroic reputation in the world, stuck to the border and dealt with the Qiang uprising with disheveled hair until his hair turned white. )
10, eighty or ninety years old: refers to eighty or ninety years old. The language "Han Caodui Nine Songs": "People are very old and can die.
Elegance extends to plants and insects. It is said that all old people can end up just because they live to the end. Your majesty can benefit from your kindness, even plants, insects and fish. )