Idioms are a kind of condensed national culture, which present various characters in society at that time and have deep cultural connotations. Judging from the use of idioms in the Chinese language college entrance examination questions in recent years, there has never been a test question that examines the gender of the idiom and the age of the woman in the idiom. For example, "cardamom age" mostly refers to a woman who is thirteen or fourteen years old. If it is said to be "this "The boy is in his prime" is a typical example of gender misuse of idioms. The gender of idioms mostly refers to female idioms, which can only be used for women and not for men.
1. The Year of the Golden Hairpin: A woman is twelve years old.
Example 1: The ignorant golden hairpin years left mottled marks.
Example 2: Having passed my golden age, I am no longer carefree. My sorrow is getting closer and closer to me, and my happiness is getting further and further away from me.
2. Cardamom Years: The woman is thirteen or fourteen years old. Cardamom is a perennial herbaceous plant, about ten feet tall. It blooms in late spring and early summer in the shape of a spike. It is initially rolled up by young leaves. The leaves gradually unfold and the flowers gradually bloom. February is the budding period. In literary works It is often used to describe the purity and innocence of girls. The phrase "cardamom years" comes from Du Mu's poem "Farewell": "Pingping is more than thirteen years old, and the cardamom branches are in early February. The spring breeze is ten miles away on Yangzhou Road, and it is better to roll up the bead curtain." The "more than thirteen years" in the poem is clear. The girl who was unmistakably identified as thirteen or fourteen years old was like a cardamom bud.
Example: "When you meet a woman, you have to show off your talents, either 'a MILF, still charming', or 'in her prime, delicate and cute'". Lu Xun's "Second Collection of Qiejieting's Essays·On the Awesomeness of Human Words"
Misuse examples: We are fifteen or sixteen-year-old middle school students, in our prime years, and we must study hard.
3. The age of hairpin: a woman is fifteen years old. According to the Nei Principles of the Book of Rites, a woman's haircut will last for fifteen years. In ancient times, when a woman reached fifteen years old, she would tie up her hair and wear a hairpin. In ancient times, underage girls had hanging hair. When they were about fifteen years old, they had to tie their hair up and use hairpins to tie it up, which was called "hairpin addition". The "hairpin addition ceremony" was held to signify adulthood. Later, it gradually developed to be held on the day before the wedding. An old woman with many children and grandchildren was asked to trim the woman's forehead, twist her face (using thin silk thread to remove facial hair), then wash her face, bathe her hair, tie her bun and add a hairpin.
4. Jade Years: A woman is sixteen years old. A woman's sixteenth year is called the Jasper Year, which can also be called the first division of the melon, the year of Fengxin, the age of twenty-eight, and the year of breaking the melon. (Gua: can be divided into two eight characters in official script and Wei stele style in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.)
Example: The jade years are always filled with colorful dreams. We hold courage in our hands, shoulder our ideals, and move towards freedom. go ahead.
5. An unmarried woman is: Yunying is unmarried, a yellow-flowered girl, a sister-in-law who is alone, and is waiting to be called a boudoir. Woman. Luo Yin's poem Qijue: "Zhongling was drunk for more than ten years, and I saw Yunying again; I am not a famous king and I am not married, so I may be inferior to others.")
Example: Although Sister Guo had a successful career, it was a pity that Yunying was unmarried and was still alone when she died.
6. Flower Letter: Flower Letter, flowering period. Refers to the woman's age reaching twenty-four years old. It also generally refers to a woman's age when she is young and beautiful. Source: Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty, "Lian Yin after the Lantern Festival": "Whoever can use the waist drum to urge flowers to send letters will quickly strike "Liangzhou" with thunder from all directions."
Example: When she was in the prime of flowers and letters, She became famous.
7. Luo Fu You Husband: A woman who already has a husband. (Luofu refers to the famous beauties in ancient times. It comes from "Mo Shang Sang" of Han Yuefu, "The emperor has his own wife, and Luofu has his own husband". Later generations continued to use it and removed the word "自" in the middle)
< p>Example: Mandarin ducks dream of having fun with each other. Do you remember that Luo Fu has her own husband? (Volume 3 of "Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes" by Ji Yun of the Qing Dynasty)8. Banlaoxu Niang: A middle-aged and elderly woman who is still charming (the story comes from the story of Xu Zhaopei, the concubine of Emperor Liang Yuan of the Southern Dynasty. Xu Zhaopei was young. She was indeed a radiant beauty, but she could not compete with the fact that time has made people grow old. After her prime years, her beauty was no longer what it used to be, but she still had a bit of charm despite her heavy makeup. "Mistress" is used to describe middle-aged women whose charm is still there.)
9. The charm is still there: The charm and beauty of women over forty years old are no less than when they were young. Describes middle-aged women who still retain their graceful grace. (Source of the idiom: "Songyin Man Lu" by Wang Tao of the Qing Dynasty: "Although the mother belongs to Xu Niang, her charm is still there, so it is fitting for Lao Beng to give birth to this pearl.") In addition, there are: the style is still there, the aftertaste is still there. .
10. Pearls turn yellow with age: Women who are old and lose their beauty are looked down upon like pearls that turn yellow over time and become worthless. (The second chapter of Ming Dynasty Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng's "Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua": "The lady is still in her youth, and she has a good chance of turning over, unlike me who is old and has a yellowish look and is worthless.")
Example: A real old man is a yellowish old man. It’s not worth it. After walking this little distance, it’s really hard. I want to go back and take a nap. (Chapter 7 of Wu Jianren's "Anecdotes" in the Qing Dynasty)
11. Pipa don't hug: In the old days, it meant a woman remarried. Source: Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing": "When I came out after calling for thousands of times, I still held the pipa to half cover my face."
Example: Don't hold the pipa, the head is ruthless, not only is it not as good as this concubine, but also Not as good as this fox.
(Volume 4 of "Notes of Yuewei Cottage" written by Ji Yun of the Qing Dynasty)