What year is ninety?
80~90 years old-octogenarians; 90 years old; 100 years old-Qiyi.
What year is 90?
It's called an octogenarian. Source: The Book of Rites Quli says: "Eighty-nine years old." When it means, 890 can be an old man. In Er Ya Shi Yan, it is noted that "eighty is the best" means turning into a cave at the age of 80. To sum up, we can know that eighty or ninety years old can be called old people.
"Ninety" has other names, such as "mackerel back". Mackerel is a kind of fish with stripes on its back like wrinkled skin of an old man. In old age, senile spots appear on the skin, such as frozen pear skin, so it is also called "frozen pear".
Other names for the elderly:
Shunnian, Shunnian and Huajiannian: both refer to 60 years old.
Old age: honorific, refers to the age of the elderly, mostly over 60 years old.
Money: In ancient times, people aged 60 were called money.
Xia Shou: The ancients took 60 as their next birthday, meaning over 60.
Return the gift: 6 1 birthday.
A year from the heart: 70 years old.
Gu Xi: It is not easy for ancient people to live to 70 years old.
The year of trailer and the year of winding stick: both refer to 70 years old.
Yi: seventy or eighty years old, generally referring to old age. For example, an octogenarian.
Happy birthday: it means 77 years old, and the cursive character is like 77, so it means 77 years old.
Umbrella birthday: 80th birthday. Because umbrella grass looks like eighty, it is called "umbrella life".
Middle age: refers to over 80 years old.
Mi Shou: It means 88 years old. Because the word rice looks like eighty-eight, which means eighty-eight.
Shangshou: 90 years old is Shangshou.
Bai Shou: It means 99 years old, and one percent is 99, so it means 99 years old.
Period: refers to a hundred years old.
Tea life: refers to 108 years old. 20 on the top and 88 on the bottom of the tea word add up to 108 years old.
Double happiness and double happiness: 140 years old.