From the "shape", the word "melon" can be divided into two "eights", and the so-called 286, the meaning of the year of breaking melons is clear at a glance. That is, the woman is sixteen. It can be described as the prime time of women's youth. Literally, the broken melon rolled down and produced red flesh and nectar. This idiom has been passed down to this day, and it is inevitable that someone will understand the meaning literally. It is said that in ancient times, a woman 16 years old was going to get married, and the husband and wife died after sharing the same bed, so it gradually meant the year of breaking melons, but is this the case?
Let's take a look at the origin of the year of broken melon. In Fan Si's "Yunxi Entertainment is Slightly High" in the Tang Dynasty, it was said for the first time that "Yu Di is better for those who give a song to Dongchuan on the eighth floor." The above has no literal meaning until Yuan Mei's Poems with the Garden in the Qing Dynasty: "Ancient Yuefu:' Jasper breaks the melon. Or it is incorrect to think that when the moon first arrives and the melon breaks, you will see red tide. "? The year of broken melon does not mean the beginning of the month. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a doctor of medicine named Chu Cheng, who wrote a book called Chu's suicide note. At that time, some people wanted to marry a broken melon girl, which would show promiscuous ambitions, but they didn't want to be heirs. When he said "broken melon girl", he meant underage girls.
As we all know, characters evolved slowly in form at the earliest, and the ancients even separated the meaning of characters from "form" to understand. Therefore, the meaning of the "year of broken melon" itself only refers to a 16-year-old woman, and there is no other extended meaning. We can't expect to treat it as a joke.