1. Total angle
In ancient times, children tied their hair into a pair of small buns like horns, which were called total horns. "The Book of Songs Qifeng Futian": "The total angle is Xi." Horn, bun; Hair, children's hair is divided upwards. Later generations used "total angle" to refer to childhood.
Look down
In ancient times, children did not wear hats when they were minors, and their hair drooped. Later, because "crying" refers to childhood. Tao Jin Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden; "I have yellow hair and I am very happy."
3. and
Female 15 years old. Fu is a hairpin used by ancient women to curl their hair. And "Fu" means that when a woman reaches the age of 15, she raises her head to show that she has reached adulthood.
4 cardamom
A girl of thirteen or fourteen. In the Tang Dynasty, Du Mu wrote a poem "Farewell": "Flowers are more than thirteen, and cardamom is the first in February."
5 broken melons
Female 16 years old. Ancient literati took the word "melon" apart and made it into two characters, because they called a woman of 16 years old "the year of broken melon". Thank you: "the broken melon is young and the waist is small."
6. weak crown
This man is 20 years old. In ancient times, when a man was 20 years old, he would hold an adult ceremony and put on a crown to show that he was an adult. Book of Rites: Twenty is a weak crown. Jin Shi's "Ode to History": "A weak crown makes a gentleman, and it is good to read a group of books."
Step 7 stand still
Thirty years old. Confucius' The Analects of Confucius: "I am determined to learn five out of ten and stand at thirty." Later, he called 30 the year of "standing".
8.40 years old.
The Analects of Confucius is "forty without confusion" At the age of 40, the speaker has more social experience and can distinguish right from wrong. In addition, Shi Qiang also refers to 40 years old. Book of rites At the ceremony. It is said that the man is 40 years old, with strong intelligence and strength, and can be an official.
9 fate
Fifty. "The Analects of Confucius for Politics": "You know your destiny at fifty."
10 Ai。
Fifty. Book of Rites: "Fifty is Ai." Kong's Ying Da Shu: "As pale as Ai." Old people's hair is as pale as Ai's.
1 1 flower
60 years old. It is composed of 60 complicated names in heavenly stems and earthly branches order.
12 sounds good. 60 years old. "The Analects of Confucius for Politics": "Sixty sounds good." So 60 years old is called the year of hearing.
13 headland
60 years old.
14 Gu Xi
Du Fu's "Qujiang" poem: "Wine and debt together, life is seventy years old."
15
Old age. Later, at the age of 80 or 90, he became an octogenarian.
16 Qi Yi
Refers to a hundred years old. Book of Rites: "A hundred years is long." Period, need; H, aftercare, nursing. Centenarians need descendants to support them. Song dynasty
17 hanging arc Chen
A man's birthday. In ancient times, when a boy was born, he would hang a bow on the left side of the door. Later, because the birth of a man is called hanging arc, the birthday of a man is called hanging arc.
18 birthday
Birthday China, brilliant, brilliant. Birthday is a good name for people to celebrate their birthdays.
18 Nongzhang
A boy was born. Zhang is a kind of jade worn by ancient princes. "The Book of Songs Xiaoya Four Drives": "It is the department of people, carrying clothes to sleep and clothes to take off." It means that a man who wants to be born can also wear jade ornaments and become a prince in the future. Since then, he has been called "Nongzhang".
19 tiling
The girl was born. Ceramic tile, a spindle, a tool for women's textile. "The Book of Songs Xiaoya Four Dry" is a woman who wears brown clothes and carries tiles. I hope that the woman born will be qualified to be a queen in the future. Later, I called my daughter "tiling"
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