From Du Mu's poem "Farewell": "Gracefully curling up at the age of thirteen, cardamom at the beginning of February."
The cardamom is a perennial herbaceous plant, about ten feet high, flowering in late spring and early summer, into spikes, the first for the young leaves rolled, the leaves gradually spreading and flowers gradually open, February is the budding period, often used to describe the young girl's pure innocence and dreaming age in literature. The phrase "cardamom years" comes from Du Mu's poem "Farewell": "gracefully curling up more than thirteen, cardamom tips in early February. The spring breeze of ten miles of Yangzhou Road, rolled on the pearl curtain is not as good as." Du Mu in his thirties, "down and out in Yangzhou", when he was traveling, in the boredom of writing this poem to a teenage prostitute, the poem's "thirteen or so" is unmistakably identified as a thirteen or fourteen year old girl, such as cardamom buds to be blossomed, the metaphor is very accurate! The poem is a very precise and vivid metaphor.
Words Cardamom
Pronunciation dòu kòu nián huá
Interpretation dòu kòu nián huá
Meaning "cardamom" is a perennial herb, a metaphor for a virgin. It refers to a woman when she is 13 or 14 years old.
Source Tang Du Mu's poem "Farewell": "Gracefully curling up at the age of thirteen or so, cardamom at the beginning of February."
Example Once you meet a woman, you will have to play with your talent, either as "a woman of half an age, with a lingering charm" or as "～,lingeringly lovely". Lu Xun's "And Jie Ting Miscellaneous Writings"
Usage As subject and object; used for young girls
These words are used to describe a woman's ability to speak her mind.