The meaning of "Pogua" was misinterpreted by the world in fact during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Let me first explain why such misinterpretation occurred in the Qing Dynasty. In fact, the main problem still appeared in the works of the literati at that time. . Because in the late Ming Dynasty, a scholar named Feng Menglong once wrote in his work "Warning Words: Du Shiniang Sinked the Treasure Box in Anger", "Du Shiniang broke the melon when she was thirteen, and now she is ten. Nine years old, within seven years, I have experienced countless princes, princes and grandsons, all of whom were obsessed with love and debauched, and even broke the family and property without hesitation. "
The meaning of "Pogua" here has been misinterpreted, because "Thirteen-year-old Pogua" has clearly stated that it means to lose one's body. The word "Pogua" has gradually become popular in the late Ming Dynasty. The original meaning of "earth" has been distorted, so that this meaning became more fixed in the Qing Dynasty. Pu Songling of the Qing Dynasty mentioned it in the "Hu Meng" in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", "When you see a woman coming in, you will be old." But at the age of eighteen or nine, he smiled at the girl and said, "My sister is already broken. Is the groom happy?" ", which proves that the word "Pogua" at that time had been completely mixed into such ambiguous and obscene thoughts.
Before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the so-called "Pogua" was used to describe a woman who was sixteen years old. In ancient times, the ancients took the melon seeds apart and regarded them as two internal and external characters. This is the so-called twenty-eight years old, which is sixteen years old. Therefore, in ancient times, "broken melon" was also called "divide". Because in the "Popular Edition", it was mentioned that "when success occurs in the year of Pogua, the age is eighty-eight sixty-four", because "eighty-eight sixty-four" also refers to the age of sixty-four, "Gongsong" This is the meaning of "Being Dang in the Year of Pogua".
The earliest word "Pogua" can be traced back to the Southern Dynasties, and it appeared in a poem "Jasper Song", one of which is The first sentence goes like this: "When the jasper breaks the melon, the man is turned upside down by his love." The hibiscus blooms in the frost, and the autumn appearance is still good." The fourth sentence "When the jasper breaks the melon, the love for each other is reversed. "I am grateful to you, but I am not ashamed of you, I will hug you when you turn around." The "po melon" mentioned in these two sentences refers to a woman who is over sixteen years old and has just begun to fall in love.