The reputation of young people is the year of dancing spoons, the year of dancing elephants, and Zhixue.
1. The Year of the Spoon Dance.
Shao dance is a kind of dance learned by 13-year-old boys in ancient times. Descendants refer to boys aged 12-13 years.
2. The Year of the Dancing Elephant.
"Dancing Elephant" refers to men aged 15-20, and is synonymous with adult children. It was originally the name of an ancient martial arts dance.
3. Zhixue.
"Zhixue" comes from "The Analects of Confucius·Wei Zheng" in "Confucius said: I am determined to study at the age of fifteen." (meaning that Confucius was determined to study with concentration at the age of fifteen), and later refers to men. 15 years old.
Younger nickname:
1. Cardamom.
Cardamom is between the ages of thirteen or fourteen and fifteen or sixteen years old (cardamom is a plant that blooms in early summer. Early summer is not yet midsummer, which is a metaphor for people who are not yet minors, so the underage boyhood is called the "cardamom years". ). Du Fu's poem "Farewell" contains "Pingping has been curling up for more than thirteen years, and the cardamom leaves are in early February".
2. Bundle hair.
The hair is tied when a man reaches the age of fifteen (at the age of fifteen, a man must disband his original hair and tie it into a bunch). In "The Book of Rites of Dadai" there is a saying "Tie your hair and enter the university".
The hairpin indicates that a woman is fifteen years old. In ancient times, when a woman reached the age of fifteen, she would tie her hair up and clip it with a hairpin to indicate that she had reached adulthood. "Book of Rites" states that "(a woman) will have her hair tied in fifteen years."