Why did the ancients like to use cardamom to describe girls? Is it really because there are no words to describe it?

This is really because using cardamom to describe a girl can reflect her age. In fact, in ancient times, many descriptive words represented an age stage. For example, when a woman is thirteen or fourteen years old, she will be called a cardamom, and when she is fifteen, she will be a mature year.

In fact, this expression is only to highlight the age of women, and this title actually represents age. Then this metaphor for women is to highlight which stage of life you are in.

The reason why I like to use cardamom to describe girls is because cardamom is actually very similar to the feeling that girls bring. Speaking of the adjective cardamom, I have to say that it was a poem written by Du Mu at that time, 13 times or more. At the beginning of February, the cardamom crown, spring breeze along Yangzhou Road miles. Might as well roll up the bead curtain.

Then from such a poem, people will compare the cardamom mentioned in this poem to a petite and beautiful woman of thirteen or fourteen. In fact, Du Mu had been lingering in the brothel at that time, because he was very reluctant to part with a geisha, so he wrote such a poem when he finally left.

And this geisha, whom he couldn't bear to give up, was about thirteen or fourteen years old, so this metaphor came later. It's not because there are no words to describe a 13-year-old girl named cardamom. It is only because of using such a word to describe a girl that it is easier for everyone to understand.