Ancient age appellation Collection
Infant: less than one year old.
Children: two to three years old.
At the beginning, the girl was seven years old.
First year: the boy was eight years old. Description: According to the physiological condition, when a boy is eight years old and a girl is seven years old, she will change her teeth, take off her primary teeth and grow permanent teeth. This is called "the year of childhood", "the year of childhood" or "the year of childhood".
Total angle: a general term for childhood.
The year of hanging bun: refers to children. In ancient times, children's hair drooped, which was extended to refer to minors. )
Huang Kou: Under ten years old.
Kindergarten: ten years old. (Book of Rites? Qu Li Shang: "Life is ten years old, learning." Because there was no punctuation in ancient Chinese characters, people intercepted the word "kindergarten" as a proxy for ten years old. )
Year of Jin Chai: The girl is twelve years old.
Cardamom: The woman is thirteen years old.
Chi Xue: fifteen years old. (The Analects of Confucius: Confucius said, "Five times out of ten, I am determined to learn ...")
And logistics: the woman is fifteen years old. (Book of Rites? Neize ":"Women have five years in ten years. " )
The year of Jasper's youth and broken melon: the woman is sixteen years old. (In the old days, scholars took the word "melon" as the year of 2008, which was called sixteen years old, and it was mostly used for women. )
Weak crown: twenty years old. (Book of Rites? Quli Shang: "Twenty is a weak crown." )
Tao Li Nianhua: Female is twenty years old.
Flower in love: female is twenty-four years old.
Standing: thirty years old.
No doubt: forty years old.
Destiny: fifty years old. (The Analects of Confucius: Confucius said: "I am determined to learn five times out of ten, standing at thirty, not confused at forty, knowing my destiny at fifty, obeying my ears at sixty, and doing what I want at seventy, not exceeding the moment." “）
The year of knowing right and wrong: fifty years old. ("Huai Nanzi? As the old saying goes, "Bo Yu is fifty years old, but he has been absent for forty-nine years." It is said that there was a Bo Yu in the Spring and Autumn Period who constantly reflected on himself. By the age of 50, he knew the mistakes of the previous 49 years, so later generations used "knowing right and wrong" to call him fifty. )
Age of hearing and flower: 60 years old. Since ancient times, our country has used heavenly stems and earthly branches to date each other intricately, which can form sixty pairs of branches, so it is called "sixty branches" or "sixty flowers", so sixty years old is also called "the year of sixty flowers". )
Gu Xi: Seventy years old. (Du Fu's "Two Poems of Qujiang": "Wine debts are common, and life is 70 years old." )
Octogenarian: eighty or ninety years old. (Book of Rites? Quli ":"890 yue Yao. " According to this explanation, people use the word "octogenarian" to refer to eighty or ninety years old. )
Yi: A centenarian. (Book of Rites? Quli: "A hundred years is a long time." It means that life lasts for a hundred years, so it is called "the year of life." Yuan Chen Hao explained: "Life lasts for a hundred years, so it is a period; Eating and drinking are all moving, so I am embarrassed. " )