China's traditional concept, how old a person is, refers to the first few years in this world. Moreover, this year is distinguished by the Spring Festival, that is, the Chinese New Year. 1 year, 2 years old, or even dozens of years old, all refer to age. So when a person is born, it is the age of the first year, and then it will increase year by year.
The so-called real age is a cardinal number, which refers to how many years you have lived. Therefore, the real age must be counted as the birthday, and the nominal age is based on the "year".
Not only people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai do this, but also people in China do this. There are two kinds of ages: nominal age and nominal age, so you are one year old when you are born. In addition to the head and tail, the real age is counted, that is, the head and tail of the imaginary age are counted, and only the real age is not counted. The actual age is one year old, and the anniversary is enough. The shortage of nominal age is mostly discussed in vain among the people, unlike in formal occasions.
In folk, beginning of spring is regarded as the end of the calendar, while ordinary people think that the Lunar New Year is the end of the calendar. Take a special case: beginning of spring, born in Jihai in 20 19, gave birth at 30: 00 in the twelfth lunar month in 2018. If a woman gives birth in Guangzhou and they are twins, the first baby will be born at 10: 50 Beijing time on this day, and the second baby will be born. According to the calendar, the birth of the first baby has four pillars and eight characters: 1898, B ugly month, Ren Shenri, B unfinished year, Ji Hainian, Bing Yinyue, Gui Ri, Ren Zishi. According to the folk theory of nominal age, by the second day, that is, the first day of the first lunar month, the first baby can be called two years old and the second baby can only be called one year old, but according to the real age theory, it is actually less than two days. Born at the handover, there is a big difference between before and after. There is also a difference between the age of death and the age of life. The age of death can be calculated according to the head and tail, that is, according to the imaginary age, not the real age, and the number of lives can be calculated according to the imaginary or real age.
People were born in October, which is reasonable according to their imagined age. Because of the sex of the couple, they are pregnant, nearly ten months long in the womb, and one is not much more. If the plan is empty, it is still far from the end of the year. In rural areas, old people are often not only counted by nominal age, but also two to three years older than nominal age. Last year, for example, I asked an old man in his twenties how old he was. He was born in 1924 10. He said he was 98 years old. I asked how to calculate. He said that he had seen thirty-four and thirty-five leap months in the seventh leap month of nineteen years, which was enough to add three years. On the issue of age, many people are greedy for perfection, not only love to be inadequate, but also make up for the leap month.
A: Yes! Even if he was born at the end of this year, he will be two years old after New Year's Day. There are not so many reasons. This is a habit, but the hospital birth certificate and ID number are still based on the actual birth age, not one year old.
I'm not saying that only Jiangsu and Zhejiang people calculate their age in this way, but I know that most rural areas in China still calculate their age in this way, which is called nominal age; And formally fill in files, accounts, forms, etc. You have to fill your first year.
I'm afraid it has a long history to calculate the age by nominal age, and this method of calculating the age may have existed since the Lunar New Year in China. From the time when the two Chinese zodiac signs are handed over to each other in the Lunar New Year. No matter how many days you came to this world last year, your first year, or from New Year's Eve, is the beginning of your coming to this world. In the past, a couplet profoundly described this phenomenon, saying: one night, two years old, five years old.
In fact, it is the so-called one year old, nominal age. People on our side are up and down 1 year old.
My eldest daughter was born in the twelfth month. She was one year old when she came up, and she will be one year old in a few days during the Spring Festival. All the dolls before the full moon are two years old.
In fact, one year old and nominal age are easy to calculate.
One year old is when you come out of your mother's body.
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A nominal age is when you come out of your father's body.
As long as they are from China, they all express it this way.
Now people tend to pay attention to one age every day. How old am I today? I still have a few months and a few days, and I will be full tomorrow ... It just sounds embarrassing. I was born in 7 1 and I am 49 years old. According to today's name, I'm 47 years old, and today I'm five months and a few days ... tired!
The nominal age is like this. Even if you were born before midnight on December 30 of the lunar calendar, on the first day of the following year, you will be two years old less than one day after your birth.
The nominal age is a traditional way of counting age in China, with the Lunar New Year as the dividing point. People born that year are all one year old, one year later. One-year-old means that the length of time spent abroad after the birth of the Gregorian calendar is zero, and one year is added after the first birthday.
Gregorian calendar was introduced into China after the Revolution of 1911, and it is called Gregorian calendar, not Gregorian calendar. The chronology of China is divided by 24 solar terms, which is the real solar calendar.
A little light in the universe combines with parents' sperm and eggs to form a new life, and life begins. A person's age should be counted from this moment.
Why do some people say that people from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are born even if they are 1 year old?
As a native of Zhejiang, let me answer this question. In our place, even if you were born at 1, you will be two years old after the end of the year, so there will be some funny things. For example, a nanny gives birth to a child at the age of 30, and the baby is one year old and becomes two years old the next day. It is consistent with the myth that one day in the sky and one year on earth.
It is also for this reason that a baby mother is pregnant for 4 1 week and told her to inject oxytocin for production. She just doesn't rush it, but she doesn't want to give birth until after the first day of the first month. This is not because she was artificially ruptured on the first day of the first month, induced by oxytocin, and was born in eight hours. Fortunately, it's a little bigger this month. But those born on New Year's Eve also have the advantage of getting extra red envelopes.
To sum up, in our Zhejiang province, a baby is one year old after birth and one year later, no matter how many days have passed. Good luck with your pregnancy.
Traditionally, China's birth age is 1, and all the ages of the ancients mentioned in ancient books are calculated in this way!
During the Republic of China, the Gregorian calendar was introduced, and the western age calculation method was also introduced. In order to distinguish it from the tradition in China, the age in the west is called "one year old", and the traditional age in China is called "nominal age". Self-identity is empty, strong worship of foreign things and flattery of foreign countries!
Nowadays, people have forgotten the tradition of China, and they are still mocking the locals who are still inheriting the traditional chronology of China. This is extremely ignorant and ridiculous!
It's not just people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai who are born at the age of one. I come from Anhui, so do we. There is a saying that there is a difference between nominal age and one year old. Simply put, one year old is counted from the moment you leave your mother, and nominal age is counted from the moment you leave your father. I don't know if it's right, that's my understanding.
The so-called "born to be one year old" is only used to calculate the age in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. A newborn baby is one year old at birth, year after year (Spring Festival). Even if you are born on New Year's Eve, you will be called "two years old" in the second day (the first day of the first month), which is a habit of delaying history.