The pronunciation of "期颐之年" is qī?yí?zhī?nián.
Generally speaking, a person who is 100 years old is called "期颐之年".
Citation:
1. Zheng Xuan's note: "The period is like to be; the Yi is to be nourished. I do not know the clothes, food and flavor, filial son to do all to raise the road only." Meaning: When a person reaches the age of 100, he needs to be taken care of by his filial son in terms of food, housing and other aspects, so "100 years old" is called "Yi".
2, the Han Dynasty Dai Sheng edited the "Book of Rites": "Ten years of life is said to be young, learning; twenty is said to be weak, the crown; thirty is said to be strong, room, eighty is said to be eighty or ninety, ninety is said to be old, a hundred years is said to be period of Yi." Means that life in a hundred years, so call 100 years old for the "period Yi year".
3, Sun Xidan collection: "a hundred years of food and drink, living, action, nothing to be raised. Fang's Harcourt said: 'life in a hundred years, so a hundred years with a view to the name.'" Later, because of the hundred years old for "period Yi".
4, su shi "rhymes with ziyu three": "everywhere may not be idle divination building, the years can be counted since the period of time."
5. Pu Songling, "Liaozhai Zhiyi": "I am sending you back to your home, and I will give you a thousand dollars of property, and a life expectancy of a thousand years, is that enough for you?"
Other age-related epithets in ancient times:
1. Cardamom: refers to a woman aged thirteen. Cardamom is 13 or 14 to 15 or 16 years old, cardamom is a kind of early summer flowering plant, the early summer is not yet the summer, the metaphor is that people are not yet adults, so it is called "cardamom years" for the teenage years.
2, weak crown: this time to perform the crown ceremony, that is, wearing a hat that has become a man, to show that adults, but the body is still not strong, is still relatively young, so it is called "weak". In later years, it refers to the age of about twenty men, not for women.
3, and the year: thirty years old. The Analects of Confucius: "Thirty years old." When a person reaches the age of thirty, it should be the age of self-reliance, self-reliance, self-reliance, self-reliance, self-reliance, self-reliance, self-reliance, self-reliance, self-reliance, self-reliance. Later on, it was called "the year of standing".
4, flower armor: 60 years old. The term "Huajia" comes from the ancient Chinese calendar, with sixty years as a cycle, a cycle called a jiazi, but also because of the names of the heavenly stems and earthly branches are numerous and intertwined, also known as Huajia.
5, the age of seventy, the year of the cart, the staff around the year: seventy years old. Du Fu's "Qujiang": "Wine debt is not common, life is seventy years old." Later, the term "ancient and rare" was used as a substitute for seventy years old. Hanging car: the ancients generally to the age of seventy resigned from home, waste car not used, because of the use of the cart refers to the age of seventy.