Refers to sixteen years old. The good years of fifteen or sixteen.
Twenty-eight years old, pinyin èr bā nián huá, the good years of fifteen or sixteen years old. Refers to the most beautiful period of youth. It is generally used to describe a girl’s golden age.
Source: Li Bai's "Jiang Xia Xing": "I just met a young woman who was a concubine, and she was wearing red makeup for twenty-eight years."
Source translation: I happened to meet a young woman who sold wine, she was twenty-eight years old. , beautiful in red makeup, working as a bartender selling wine with her husband. When a prostitute: a wine seller.
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Other names:
1. Hairpin: Originally refers to the hairpin used to tie hair in ancient times. In ancient times, women usually put their hair up and tied it with a hairpin after the age of 15, indicating that they have reached adulthood. "Jiji" refers to a woman who is over 15 years old. Jiji: refers to a woman who is fifteen years old.
2. Hair tying: tie your hair and tie your hair. In ancient times, men tied their hair and wore a crown when they were 20 years old, and women tied their hair and tied their hair when they were 15 years old, indicating adulthood. The symbols of adulthood for men and women are "adding a crown" and "adding a hairpin" respectively.
3. Hair binding: The ancients regarded the age of fifteen as the age of adulthood and tied their hair up on top of their heads. The hair is tied when a man is fifteen years old (at the age of fifteen, a man must disband his original hair and tie it into a bunch).
4. The Year of Jasper and the Year of Broken Melon: A woman is sixteen years old. (In the old days, literati used the word "gua" to indicate the year of twenty-eight, meaning sixteen years old, and it was mostly used for women.) There are many poems about jasper. Among them, "Jasper Song" by Sun Chuo of Jin Dynasty is the most famous, which describes the beauty of a young girl in her twenties. Fresh and beautiful.
5. The Year of the Dancing Elephant: The young man is fifteen to twenty years old.
6. Adult: Fifteen or slightly older.
7. Pogua, Jasper Years: The woman is sixteen years old. Ancient literati divided the melon into two horoscopes to mark the year.
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