Ding means an adult man in ancient times. Legend has it that in ancient times, forty years old was Ding. In the Sui Dynasty, it was twenty-one years old. In the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, it was twenty-three years old. In the Song Dynasty, a man aged twenty was Ding. Ding, sixty years old. After becoming a man, he had to perform corvee service and pay a poll tax.
In ancient times, giving birth to a boy was called a "tin", but those who were called "tin" must be adults, because only after adulthood can they assume the physical labor of the family, so in In ancient times, men between the ages of sixteen and sixty were called "Ding".
Because women were engaged in textile, cooking and housework in ancient production, they were not qualified for heavy agricultural labor and their status was far lower than that of men. That is, because they could not cultivate farm work, they had an extra job to eat. "mouth", so girls born in ancient times were called "Tiankou". Extended information
Under the influence of ancient movies and TV dramas, we are no strangers to terms such as "strong young man" and "prosperous young man". Carrying on the family line and reproducing children were top priorities for every household in ancient times.
Even though we live in an open-minded modern society, even those born in the 1980s and 1990s, when we were children, we still more or less felt the culture of "preferring boys over girls" since ancient times.
For example, the elders in the family will emphasize that they are not as "preferring boys over girls" like other families, which will inevitably lead to a feeling that "there is no money here". In remote rural areas, some people will even treat their newly born children. Female babies are secretly thrown away, especially in less developed areas. This kind of "sexist" cultural dregs has been passed down to this day since ancient times.
In the backward feudal ancient society, there were even different names for boys and girls in the family. A boy was called "Tian Ding" and a girl was called "Tian Kou". In fact, this kind of "boy and girl" The statement is also a manifestation of gender discrimination.