[be old enough to marry; girl's coming of age]

Refers to a woman who is old enough to be betrothed or married. In ancient times, when a woman was betrothed at the age of fifteen, she tied her hair and put on a hair clasp that year; If you are not betrothed, when you are twenty years old, you will wear a hair clasp. ? "Yili? The Book of Rites Internal Rules has been explained in detail since the year of Shi Hun Li: "(Woman) Ten years old." Zheng Xuan's note: "It refers to those who should be married in the year. When a woman promises to marry, it is a word, but it is not allowed to marry, and it is twenty. " Hairpin. Later, she was called a woman over fifteen. "The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, Biography of Empresses, Female Bachelor, Shanggong Song Family": "(Ting Fen) Born five women, all of them are wise ... before the end of the year, they can all belong to the text." The tenth time in the Scholars: "Mr. Lu Lao has a love, a year and a year." He Bange in Qing Dynasty's "Night Tan Sui Lu Wu Zhe": "Women are young and full of beauty."

Word decomposition

And the explanation and interest from the back to keep up with: in time. Can't catch up. Achieved: passed. And (selected in the ancient imperial examination, especially to obtain Jinshi). Popularize. Too much is too late. Take advantage of, take advantage of: timely. Early. Try at the forefront. Sunlight, air and water are the basic conditions for living things. And. An ancient hair pin used to hold rolled hair or a hat: a hair pin. It' s awkward. In ancient times, it specifically referred to the age at which a woman could have her hair curled up at fifteen, that is, adulthood. Years. Radical: bamboo.