The year of the flower armor refers to 60, and 60 years is a flower armor.

Chinese Idioms

HuaJia: In the old days, the heavenly stems and the earthly branches were used in conjunction with each other as a chronicle, and sixty years was a hua jia, also known as a jiazi. Hua: describes the intricacies of the names of the stems and branches.

Idiomatic Usage

Partial formal, as subject and object. It has a positive connotation.

It is customary to call sixty years old as "Hua Jia" (花甲), which means over sixty years old.

"The Year of the Flowery Armor". "Huajia" is "flower a son of" short, the origin of this name and China's ancient stem and branch chronology is inseparable. Stem and branch, that is, the heavenly stem, the earthly branch. The heavenly stem is called "dry", the earthly branch is called "branch", is the ancient times has appeared in a counting, timing symbols.

The heavenly stems are ten, namely A, B, C, D, E, F, G, C, N, N, K. The earthly branches *** twelve, namely A, B, C, D, E, F, G, C, N, K. The earthly branches *** twelve. Earth Branch **** twelve, that is, son, ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Huxu, Ohio.

Ten Heavenly Stems and twelve Earthly Branches (combination of singular with singular, even with even, such as A Zi, B Zhen, but not A Zhen, B Zi) combination of sixty pairs of non-repeating counting units (idiomatic expression "Ding is Ding, D is D," that is, originated here. (The idiom "Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao" is derived from this. Because "Ding" and "Mao" belong to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches respectively, they can not be mixed up, so this idiom means to be serious and unambiguous).

The combination of the ten stems is the main one, and since the beginning of "A", the twelve earthly branches are matched in turn. To the tenth branch, ten dry has been all matched, then again from the first dry with the eleventh branch, and so on, **** got sixty groups, known as the "sixty dry branch" or "sixty flowers A Zi", "sixty A Zi ".

Sixty years, so sixty years old is the "flower armor" year. According to evidence, the thirteenth century BC in the Shang Dynasty, China has been used to record the day of the stem and branch, and the use of the stem and branch chronology, is generally believed to have begun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu Jianwu thirteen years (54 years AD). Prior to this time, the stem and branch was added by later generations. Stem and branch chronology from the Eastern Han Dynasty has been used until now.