The cardamom age refers to the age of thirteen or fourteen for a woman, and the young age of a minor woman is the cardamom age. The reason why so called mainly from the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's a famous seven-word stanza in the poem "give goodbye". The original text reads, "Gracefully curling up more than thirteen, cardamom tips in early February. The spring breeze is ten miles from Yangzhou Road, and the pearl curtains are always better than the curtains rolled up."

The meaning is that she is just thirteen years of age with a beautiful demeanor, like a budding cardamom flower at the beginning of February. The youthful beauties of Yangzhou City's ten-mile-long street, rolled up the pearl curtains to sell their beauty, are not as good as her. This is a poem written by Du Mu to a thirteen-year-old girl named Zhang Shaoxing when he left Yangzhou. The poem describes this tender and beautiful girl as a budding cardamom shoot that has just sprouted at the beginning of February, waiting to be blossomed.

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Fifteen years old is the year of maturity. In ancient times, when a woman was fifteen years old, she put her hair together, pulled it up in a bun, and put in jewelry called maturity, which was called the maturity ceremony. After adding maturity, it means that she has become an adult, so when a woman reaches adulthood, it is called "maturity", also known as "and maturity".

The age of sixteen is the year of the broken melon and the year of the jasper. Because the word "melon" can be split into two "eight" characters, two eight sixteen, so refers to the sixteen-year-old woman. When a woman reaches the age of sixteen, her body is fully developed and she can get married.

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