1. refers to sixteen years old.
The second is a metaphor for women losing their virginity.
Three means sixty-four.
2. The meaning is the same as "year of broken melon", which refers to the time when a woman is sixteen.
3. The word "melon" is divided into "August 8". In the old days, the word "melon" was divided into two or eight years, which was called sixteen years old. It is mainly used by women in poetry. Old people are also called sixty-four years old, also called "dividing melons".
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1, "broken melon" doesn't mean that the vegetables and fruits we eat are broken. In fact, in ancient times, broken melon was an adjective to describe the age of women. The word "broken melon" in Ci Yuan says: the word melon can be divided into two characters or eight characters, so in ancient times, a woman was called sixteen years old as the year of broken melon;
2. There is a passage in "Rainy Three Waters": "Yu, Xian Yi Taoist, Tang Xijing, Chang 'an woman. ..... At the age of a broken melon, I long for clarity. "The age of the melon means that a woman has reached sixteen.
3. In Lu You's poem, it is also written: Jasper learned to sing and dance before she broke the melon, which means that Xiao Jiabiyu learned to sing and dance very well when she was less than 16 years old. There is also a poem that once said: Broken melon is young and has a small waist, which also means that she is young and has a good figure.
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