The ancients called twenty years old ().

Babies under one year old;

2~3 years old-childhood;

Girls are 7 years old-years old;

The boy is 8 years old-the year of aging;

Youth is generally called-total angle;

10 years old-Huangkou;

13~ 15 years old-the year of dancing spoon;

15~20 years old-the year of dancing elephants;

12 years old (female)-year of Chai Jin;

13 years old (female)-cardamom,

15 years old (female)-and year of death;

16 years old (female)-year of broken melon, year of jasper;

20 years old (female)-Tao Li Nianhua;

24 years old (female) in love;

Want to get married-Mei Nian;

To 30 years old (female)-Xu Niang, who is half old;

20 years old (male)-weak crown;

30 years old (male)-30 years old;

40 years old (male)-the year of no doubt, the year of the strong;

50 years old-more than half a century, the year of knowing right and wrong, the year of knowing life, the year of loving your husband, and the year of Dayan;

60 years old-the year of the flower, the year of the flat head, the year of the ear and the eye, the year of Zhang Xiang;

70 years old-ancient and rare, the year of the country, the year of events, and the year of politics;

80 years old-the year of the staff;

80~90 years old-octogenarians;

90 years old;

100 years old-Qiyi.

Ancient nicknames

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General angle: refers to childhood.

The words in The Book of Songs, such as Feng Wei's Self-protection, General's Mansion and Feng Qitian's Mansion, are all from the perspective of General's Mansion. In the future, it will be called childhood "total angle". Preface to Tao Yuanming's Poem Murong: "The general angle hears the Tao, and the white poem achieves nothing."

Look down: refers to childhood.

In ancient times, boys were not crowned and their hair drooped, so "crying" was used to refer to childhood. Pan Yue's "Borrowing Land Fu": "Being shaken by Brown is always looked down upon."

Bundle hair: refers to teenagers.

Generally speaking, it means 15 years old. At this time, you should learn all kinds of skills. Dai Fu Bao: "Let's go to college, learn great arts and complete the festival."

Logistics: refers to female 15 years old.

The Book of Rites says that "a woman ... has been married for five years". "Cue" means for marriage, which means that you have reached the age of marriage.

Waiting year: refers to the adult marriage of women, also known as "waiting word".

The language in "Empress Cao in the Later Han Dynasty" says that "the young stay in the country". In the future, women's marriage age will be called "waiting year". Selected Works of Song Wendi in Mourning the Empress of Yuan Dynasty: "Therefore, I will wait for the New Year, and the golden sound will be revived. "

Weak crown: refers to a 20-year-old man

Language "Book of Rites Qu Lishang" "Twenty weak and crowned". The ancient man was crowned at the age of 20, indicating that he had reached adulthood. Zuo Si wrote in a poem "Ode to History": "A weak crown makes a gentleman stand out from the crowd."

Standing: refers to 30 years old.

The language "The Analects of Confucius is a government" is "standing at thirty". In the future, thirty will be called the year of "standing". Long Qing, a lonely monk from a strange story in a strange studio, said, "When a friend comes to his hometown, he respects him and sees that he is silent and sincere. He is only one year old."

There is no doubt: it means 40 years old.

The language in The Analects of Confucius is "forty without confusion". In the future, use "no confusion" to represent 40 years old. Ying Kun's "Answer to Han Wenxian's Letter": "My first year, I am not confused."

Ai: It means 50 years old.

Out of the Book of Rites Quli Shang, "Fifty Words of Love". Old people have pale hair. "The Popular Romance of the Republic of China" 37 times: "... I have reached the age of Ai, what am I dissatisfied with?"

Flower armor: refers to 60 years old.

Named after heavenly stems and earthly branches's intricate name. Ji Chenggong's Chronicle of Tang Poetry (Volume 66): "(Zhao Mu) Li Changji, a middle school student in Xian Tong, wrote a short song and said to the wine,' Manually spend sixty flowers, and the cycle is like a pearl'."

Gu Xi: It means 70 years old.

From Du Fu's Qujiang Poems: "Wine and debts are everywhere, and life is seventy years old." Also known as "Gu Xi".

Whitehead: refers to old age, also known as "Whitehead".

"The Biography of Lu Qiang in the Later Han Dynasty": "Therefore, Duan Ying, Tai Wei, bravely established the world and was used to frontier affairs, and made great achievements."

Yellow hair: refers to the long-lived elderly.

The book of songs, such as The Song of Truffles and Huangfa Taipei. The old man's hair turned from white to yellow. Cao Zhi's "Giving a White Horse to Wang Biao": "Wang Qi loves the county and enjoys the yellow hair period." Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden: "I am yellow and I am happy."

Chubei: refers to the long-lived elderly.

Poems, Elegance, Walking on Reed, Huangtaipei, Taitai and Tun in The Book of Songs are all common. Er Ya Shi Shu: "A broken back leads to a long life." The old man has spots on his back like mackerel.

Period: refers to a hundred years old.

Language "Book of Rites Quli Shang" is "a hundred years, easy". It is said that centenarians depend on their children and grandchildren to support them. Su Rub's "Two Rhymes and Three Trilogy": "You might as well build it around and count the days."

On ancient nicknames

Tanghe cake period: Babies were born in three dynasties, which is called Tanghe cake period.

This language is Liu Yuxi's "Send a Wash Poem".

First degree: refers to the first year of a child's life.

From The Story of Childhood Learning by Qing Dynasty writer Cheng. Later, it was also commonly called "the first birthday". For example, the 60th birthday was called "60th birthday".

Spoon: refers to children.

The language "Biography of Han Poetry" Volume 1: "Male was born with teeth in August and toothless at the age of eight. July female teeth, seven years old and teeth ... "

Teaching age: refers to a nine-year-old child.

Year of foreign happiness: refers to a ten-year-old child.

Dance spoon year: refers to the age of thirteen for children.

All the above are from Ji.

The year of broken melon: refers to a sixteen-year-old woman.

This is the old literati who split the word "melon" into two words to mark the year. Vulgar Girl: "Song Xieyou wrote:' 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. " The year of the broken melon is also called sixty-four. "Popular Compilation" says: "If you give Zhang:' Success should be in the year of breaking melons', then he will be 8864 years old". In the year of having a house, men take women as their houses and women take men as their homes, so the year of having a house is the year of getting married. Li went to Li Shang.

The year of the Zhang family: refers to fifty years old.

Year of Zhang Xiang: refers to sixty years old.

Zhang Guo year: refers to 70 years old.

Age of the staff: eighty years old.

All the above titles are from Wang Zhi.

Summer harvest: sixty years old.

Tadashi: Eighty years old.

Shang Shou: One hundred years old.

The above topic comes from Zhuangzi.

Flowers bloom again: 120 years old.

Celebrate both antiquity and rarity: 140 years old.

In addition, people over the age of 60 are collectively referred to as "old people" and people over the age of 80 are called "otters". Others refer to the elderly as "Dragon Bell" and "Down and Out Year". Guang Yun: "Dragon bells, bamboos and old people shake like bamboo sticks, and they are forbidden to hold them until they are cured. People's embarrassment, the flowing water of the Tao is also blocked, such as people's experience, so the cloud. "