From ancient times to the present, the appellations of infant, young, young, strong, middle-aged and old in China are really varied, elegant and interesting.
Less than one year old-2 ~ 3 years old-when I was a child
Girls are 7 years old-boys are 8 years old-years.
Childhood is generally called-total angle1under 0 years old-huangkou.
13 ~ 15 years old-the year of dancing spoon 15 ~ 20 years old-the year of dancing elephant
12 years old (female)-Chai Jin is 20 years old (male)-weak crown
13 years old (female)-cardamom
15 years old (female)-and the year of death
16 years old (female)-broken melon years, jade years.
20 years old (female)-Tao
24 years old (female)
Marriage-the Year of Plum Blossom
To the age of 30 (female)-Xu Niang, who is half old.
30 years old (male)-30 years old
40 years old (male)-undoubtedly a strong year.
50 years old-more than half a century, the year of knowing right and wrong, the year of knowing life, the year of loving your husband, and the year of Dayan.
60-year-old, flat-headed, Cong 'er, hometown Zhang.
70 years old, the year of country, career and government.
80 years old-the year of the staff.
80 ~ 90 years old-octogenarians
90 years old
100 years old-Qiyi
Ancient nicknames
General angle: refers to childhood.
The words in The Book of Songs, such as Poem/Feng Wei/Self-protection, banquet in general perspective, Qi Feng/Fu Tian, are all in general perspective. In the future, it will be called childhood "total angle". Preface to Tao Yuanming's Poem Murong: "The general angle hears the Tao, and the white poem achieves nothing."
Look down: refers to childhood.
In ancient times, boys were not crowned and their hair drooped, so "crying" was used to refer to childhood. Pan Yue's "Borrowing Land Fu": "Being shaken by Brown is always looked down upon."
Bundle hair: refers to teenagers.
Generally speaking, it means 15 years old. At this time, you should learn all kinds of skills. Dai Dai Li Ji/Fu Bao: "Go to college, learn big skills and perform big festivals."
Logistics: refers to female 15 years old.
From the Book of Rites, "A woman ... died five years ago". "Cue" means for marriage, which means that you have reached the age of marriage.
Waiting year: refers to the adult marriage of women, also known as "waiting word".
Later Han Dynasty/Empress Cao said that "the young stay in the country". In the future, women's marriage age will be called "waiting year". Selected Works/Wensong Emperor Yuan Empress's Funeral Policy: "So wait for the New Year, and the golden sound will be revived."
Weak crown: refers to a 20-year-old man
In the Book of Rites/Quli, it is said that "twenty is weak and the crown is high". The ancient man was crowned at the age of 20, indicating that he had reached adulthood. Zuo Si wrote in a poem "Ode to History": "A weak crown makes a gentleman stand out from the crowd."
Standing: refers to 30 years old.
The Analects of Confucius/Politics stands at thirty. In the future, thirty will be called the year of "standing". Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio/Monk Changqing: "When a friend comes to his hometown, respect him, and see that he is silent and sincere, he is only young."
There is no doubt: it means 40 years old.
The Analects of Confucius/Politics is "forty without confusion". In the future, use "no confusion" to represent 40 years old. Ying Kun's "Answer to Han Wenxian's Letter": "My first year, I am not confused."
Ai: It means 50 years old.
The Book of Rites/Qu Lishang's Fifty Words of Love. Old people have pale hair. "The Popular Romance of the Republic of China" 37 times: "... I have reached the age of Ai, what am I dissatisfied with?"
Flower armor: refers to 60 years old.
Named after heavenly stems and earthly branches's intricate name. Ji Chenggong's Chronicle of Tang Poetry (Volume 66): "(Zhao Mu) Li Changji, a middle school student in Xian Tong, wrote a short song and said to the wine,' Manually spend sixty flowers, and the cycle is like a pearl'."
Gu Xi: It means 70 years old.
From Du Fu's Qujiang Poems: "Wine and debts are everywhere, and life is seventy years old." Also known as "Gu Xi".
Whitehead: refers to old age, also known as "Whitehead".
"The Biography of Lu Qiang in the Later Han Dynasty": "Therefore, Duan Ying, the commander in chief, is the best in the world and is used to border affairs with outstanding achievements."
Yellow hair: refers to the long-lived elderly.
The book of songs, such as "poem/truffle/palace" and "Huangfa Taipei". The old man's hair turned from white to yellow. Cao Zhi's "Giving a White Horse to Wang Biao": "Wang Qi loves the county and enjoys the yellow hair period." Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden: "I am yellow and I am happy."
Chubei: refers to the long-lived elderly.
The Book of Songs commonly includes Poetry/Elegance/Walking Reed, Huangtaipei, Taitai, Tun and so on. Erya/Poetic Art: "A broken back leads to a long life." The old man has spots on his back like mackerel.
Period: refers to a hundred years old.
Language "Book of Rites/Quli Shang" is "a hundred years, easy". It is said that centenarians depend on their children and grandchildren to support them. Su Rub's "Two Rhymes and Three Trilogy": "You might as well build it around and count the days."
Reader's Digest No.1 1983
Tanghe cake period: Babies were born in three dynasties, which is called Tanghe cake period.
This language is Liu Yuxi's "Send a Wash Poem".
First degree: refers to the first year of a child's life.
From The Story of Childhood Learning by Qing Dynasty writer Cheng. Later, it was also commonly called "the first birthday". For example, the 60th birthday was called "60th birthday".
Spoon: refers to children.
The language "Biography of Han Poetry" Volume 1: "Male was born with teeth in August and toothless at the age of eight. July female teeth, seven years old and teeth ... "
Teaching age: refers to a nine-year-old child.
Year of foreign happiness: refers to a ten-year-old child.
Dance spoon year: refers to the age of thirteen for children.
All the above are from Ji.
The year of broken melon: refers to a sixteen-year-old woman.
This is the old literati who split the word "melon" into two words to mark the year. "Popular Edition/Women": "Song Xieyou's Ci:' A boy with a broken melon has a small waist'. According to custom, it is wrong to beat a woman to pieces. The word melon is broken into two or eight words, and it is said that it is two or eight years old. " The year of the broken melon is also called sixty-four. "Popular Compilation" says: "If you give Zhang:' Success should be in the year of breaking melons', then he will be 8864 years old". In the year of having a house, men take women as their houses and women take men as their homes, so the year of having a house is the year of getting married. The language is "Li/Qu Li Shang".
The year of the Zhang family: refers to fifty years old.
Year of Zhang Xiang: refers to sixty years old.
Zhang Guo year: refers to 70 years old.
Age of the staff: eighty years old.
All the above titles are from Wang Zhi.
Summer harvest: sixty years old.
Tadashi: Eighty years old.
Shang Shou: One hundred years old.
The above topic comes from Zhuangzi.
Flowers bloom again: 120 years old.
Celebrate both antiquity and rarity: 140 years old.
In addition, people over the age of 60 are collectively referred to as "old people" and people over the age of 80 are called "otters". Others refer to the elderly as "Dragon Bell" and "Down and Out Year". "Guang Yun": "Dragon bells, bamboo, the old man shaking like a bamboo branch, forbidden to hold. People's embarrassment, the flowing water of the Tao is also blocked, such as people's experience, so the cloud. "