2. Cardamom: 13 to 15 years old (Cardamom is a plant that blooms in early summer, which is not midsummer, which means that people are still underage, so it is called "cardamom years").
3. Weak crown: The man is twenty years old. In ancient times, when a man crowned at the age of 20, it indicated that he had reached adulthood, so he was called "weak crown" because he had not yet reached the prime of life.
4. weeping: also called "weeping?" . Of children or childhood. Le, the hair that children hang down.
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In the process of reading ancient prose, we often come across some words that express age appellation, such as "weak crown" and "exhausted". Students are often puzzled by this. In fact, there are many words like this, which are all the knowledge we must know in the process of reading ancient Chinese.
The age appellation of the ancients came from different sources, and most of them were named according to the physiological characteristics of different ages, but some of them became fixed titles by following the predecessors' words.
Among all age appellation, the title of "ninety" is the most interesting. Or "mackerel back", mackerel is a kind of fish, and the stripes on its back are like the wrinkled skin of an old man. In old age, old age spots appear on the skin, such as the skin of frozen pears, so it is also called "frozen pears".
There are also names based on physiological characteristics, such as: people are called "babies" when they are born because they need to be held on their chests to feed. Babies can pass the fake, and the fake has a chest. A baby is a child held on his chest.
Seven-year-old is not only called "mourning", but also called "losing teeth", which is why it is called because it is the period of changing teeth. Fifteen-year-olds are called "children", and "children are called when there is no vegetation on the mountain". In ancient times, 16-year-old adults, 15-year-old men were not crowned, and women were not crowned. Metaphor is used here.
Our country also has the tradition of keeping track of the years of cadres and branches, and 60 years is a round, so there is a saying that 60 years old is the year of flowers and flowers.
Of course, there are more than these in ancient age appellation, and many of them are scattered in all kinds of ancient books, which have not been handed down because of their less use. These mentioned above have been used by later generations because of their high frequency of use and strong vitality. Some of them have also entered our daily communication, such as "standing at thirty". For another example, from the words "baby" and "child", we can't see the difference between history and today.
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