The cardamom age is thirteen.

In the ancient times, each age stage has different pronouns, and cardamom refers to the age of 13 years old. Cardamom is from the poem "Farewell" by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu: "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." It describes a thirteen-year-old girl as a cardamom flower on a branch at the beginning of February.

But cardamom refers to young girls, men's age of 13 years old can not be described by cardamom, cardamom is originally a Chinese medicine herb name, mostly in February flowers, early summer when the fruit, more written into the history of literature, representing the beautiful things. Therefore, cardamom usually refers to a young girl's 13 years old.

Ancient elegant name for each age group:

1, the beginning of the milk teeth: boys 8 years old, girls 7 years old. According to the physiological condition, when a boy is 8 years old and a girl is 7 years old, they change their teeth, take off their milk teeth and grow permanent teeth, which is called "replacing the milk teeth", "milk teeth" or "tufts of hair".

2. Weak Crown: Ancient people performed the crown rite at the age of 20 to show that they had reached adulthood, but their bodies were not yet strong, so they were called "weak crowns". The term comes from Liu Yuxi's "Reply to Liu Liuzhou" in the Tang Dynasty: "Weakly crowned with the worry of the elders, the Gifu recalls all the leisurely. If the couple plows and leaves their bodies behind, the yellow hairs will look at each other for the rest of their lives."

3. Peach and Li Nianhua (桃李年华): a woman is 20 years old. The term comes from Lu You's "Pear Blossom" in the Song Dynasty: "The powder is light and fragrant from the family, and it is not allowed to take up the age of peaches and plums. Often think of Nanzheng Qingming Road, drunken sleeves to meet the wind and snow a fork."

4, half old Xu Niang: a woman 30 years old. The term comes from Liu Yuxi's "Seven Dreams of Yangzhou Le Prostitutes and Poems" in the Tang Dynasty: "Flowers as cinders and jade as makeup, and the style is like the old Xu Niang. Deep in the night, the moon in the bay, ten thousand miles to follow the gentleman an inch of intestines."