2. Ancient times refers to underage servants. "Evening Gift": "On the first day, the boy held a broom and gave it to him with his left hand." Zheng Xuan's note: "Boy, if the son of Li returns to the temple." Yu Xin of the Northern Zhou Dynasty wrote "Taoist Treading on Empty Words": "Tsing Yi goes to Shao Shi, and the boy goes to Penglai." Tang Hanyu's eighth autumn poem: "Young people come from outside and blow lights in front of me."
3. It refers to children. Qing Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio: "I got married at the age of twenty and was still a boy."
4. One of the old imperial examinations. Began in the Tang Dynasty. "The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty Xuanzong Ji": "According to the subjects set by Gong Yuan of the Ministry of Rites, Ethan, Li San, Sanchuan, Xiucai, Tao Ju, Shu Ming and Boy Scouts are offered." Wang Song Anshi's poem "Detailed Examination Paper": "The lad often praises his merits, but regrets his greatness in his later years." Chen Qing Kang Qi's "nirvana in fire" Volume 7: "Pan Wengong tried the boy and sat on the bench every day, with a dignified manner." See Boy Scouts and Boy Scouts.
5. Primary school students; Eyes. Tong, pass the pupil. "Biography of Han Xiang": "Shun Gai emphasized the boy, and Xiang Yu emphasized the boy." Yan Shigu's Note: "Boy, the eyes of the eyes." Biography of Wen Yuan and Zhao Zhi in the Book of Jin: "The boy is white and black, and there is a wind of thunder."
In the past, men under fourteen were called boys. In martial arts novels, men who have no sexual experience at all are also called "boys". Only a man with this physical condition can practice some martial arts that have just arrived in the sun, such as the boy's kung fu and the magic of Jiuyang in "Eternal Dragon Slayer".