1. The first and sixth years: a girl is seven years old.
2. The Golden Hairpin Year: The girl is twelve years old.
3. Cardamom: refers to a girl who is thirteen years old. Cardamom is between the ages of thirteen or fourteen and fifteen or sixteen years old (cardamom is a plant that blooms in early summer. Early summer is not yet midsummer, which is a metaphor for people who are not yet minors, so the underage boyhood is called the "cardamom years").
4. When a girl turns 15, she is called a hairpin (pronounced jī).
And hairpin: hairpin [jī], originally refers to the hairpin used to tie hair in ancient times. In ancient times, women usually put their hair up and tied it with a hairpin after the age of 15, indicating that they have reached adulthood. "Jiji" refers to a woman who is over 15 years old. Jiji: refers to a woman who is fifteen years old.
The saying comes from "Book of Rites·Nei Principles" that "a woman... will have her hair tied for fifteen years." "Hip" refers to the knotting of hair and using a hairpin to tie it, indicating that one has reached the age of marriage.
5. The Year of Jasper and the Year of Broken Melon: A woman is sixteen years old.
(In the old days, literati used the word "gua" to indicate the year of twenty-eight, meaning sixteen years old, and it was mostly used for women.) There are many poems about jasper, among which "Jasper Song" by Sun Chuo of Jin Dynasty is the most famous. "When the jasper breaks the melon, the man is obsessed with love. The lotus mausoleum is frosty, and the autumn appearance is still good. The little jasper girl does not dare to be virtuous. The little jasper girl does not dare to be virtuous. She feels the man's rich love, and is ashamed of her beauty. The jasper little girl does not dare to be virtuous. Climbing. Gan Lang is full of energy, so he gets the golden orchid. When the jasper breaks the melon, the relationship is upside down. Gan Lang is not ashamed of him, so he turns around and hugs her. "Write the freshness and beauty of a young girl in her twenties.
6. Waiting for the Nian: refers to a woman waiting to be married when she reaches adulthood, also known as "waiting".
7. Peach and Plum Years: A woman is twenty years old.
8. Flowery years: The woman is twenty-four years old.
9. MILF: The woman is thirty years old.
Age appellation is an ancient appellation that refers to age. Sometimes the age of ancient people is not expressed by numbers, but by other appellation. Age titles are mostly recorded in books and are still used today.
The age of ancient people was sometimes not represented by numbers. They did not directly tell how old someone was or how old they were, but instead used an age-related title instead. Chuiku (tiáo) refers to children aged three to four to eight or nine years old (chui, the short hair hanging down on the heads of ancient children). Zongjiao is a young man aged between eighty-nine and thirteen or fourteen years old (in ancient times, children divided their hair into left and right halves and tied each into a knot on the top of their head, shaped like two sheep's horns, so they were called "Zongjiao").
Age title-Baidu Encyclopedia