One is a metaphor for underage girls and elderly women; Second, it symbolizes that women have sex for the first time. Girl's broken melon:
The word melon is broken into two characters, and it is said that it is 286 years old. Gao Luopei, a Dutch sinologist who once wrote China Test in the Room and Mystery Test, understood the concept of broken melon of China girl, which he thought meant that the girl was 28 years old, which was also determined by the special font composed of Chinese characters "melon" and "eight". Broken melon says that the woman is sixteen, for many reasons. The article "Broken Melon" on page 2242 of the third volume of Ci Yuan says that the word melon can be divided into two characters or eight characters, so it is customary to call a woman sixteen years old as the year of broken melon in the poem. Tang Huangfumei's Sanshui Xiaoxi: "Yu, Xian Yi Taoist, Tang Xijing, Chang 'an woman. ..... At the age of a broken melon, I long for clarity. "In the Song Dynasty, King Runan had a concubine named Jasper, who was very fond of her, so he wrote" Jasper Song ":"Jasper broke the melon, and Lang was rebellious. "Broken melon girl, also known as Jasper girl, also known as virgin girl, refers to underage girls. Lu You's Untitled: "Jasper didn't break a melon that year, but she learned to be a singer and dancer. "Vulgar Girl by Qu Hao in Qing Dynasty": "Song Xieyou's Ci:' A boy with a broken melon has a small waist'. According to custom, it is wrong to beat a woman to pieces. The word melon is broken into two or eight words, and it is said that it is two or eight years old. "Old woman's melon:
The saying that broken melons are old women also comes from the popular compilation in Qing Dynasty: "If you give Zhang:' Success should be in the year of broken melons', he will be 8864 years old." Two eights can be multiplied or added, but there is a big difference.