In fact, the year of sixty refers to a 60-year-old man. In ancient times, people liked to be named after heavenly stems and earthly branches, and that's how it came about, because heavenly stems and earthly branches's cycle was sixty years, which happened to be the first one in the heavenly stems and the first one in the earthly branches, so it was called sixty years, so it was called a Jiazi.
Later, it evolved into the year of sixty, which was originally from the Chronicle of Tang Poetry in the Song Dynasty, in which it was mentioned that drinking wine was: sixty flowers and sixty flowers, and the cycle fell like a pearl.
Ancient appellations for elderly people of other ages
1, seventy years of age
Seventy years of age refers to people who are over seventy years old. As the old saying goes, people are rare until they are 70 years old. It is called ancient rarity because the life span of ancient people is very short, because there are many plagues, and basically the average life span is only forty years old.
If you can live to be 70 years old, it is basically very rare. It originally came from a poem by Du Fu, "Two Poems of Qujiang", which mentioned that "wine debts are common, and life is 70 years old."
2. octogenarian years
Eighty years old is called the octogenarian or the octogenarian, because in ancient times, when he was eighty years old, he was already unable to move and needed crutches, so he became the octogenarian, and octogenarian itself refers to the very old man, originally from Han Cao Dui Jiu Ge, which mentioned "octogenarian"
3, the year of backbreaking
Ninety-year-old is called the year of chapped back, and mackerel is a kind of fish with stripes on its back, which is very similar to the wrinkled skin of the elderly, so it is called the year of chapped back. In fact, 90-year-old is also called the year of frozen pear, because the stripes on frozen pear are very similar to the age spots born by the 90-year-old, and almost have the same effect as the year of cardamom.