Every stage in a person's life is very important and commemorative, so the ancients gave different titles according to the characteristics of each age group. These titles more vividly and poetically express the characteristics of people at that age. Regarding age, we are familiar with the common sayings such as "standing at thirty and not confused at forty" and "being rare since ancient times". Here the editor will share with you one by one the names of what age groups were called in ancient times. Many of the titles were also divided into men and women.
0-1 years old: naked, swaddled
Babies under one year old.
Innocent - a newborn baby.
Swaddling - wrapping the baby in a quilt.
2-3 years old: child
Refers to children who are just learning to laugh. It is also written as "child bag" or "child".
3-8 years old: tiáo
Tiáo, the short hair hanging down on the head of ancient children.
Pan Yue's "Fu Tian Fu": "Being brown is shaken, and the hair is always hairy."
Girls are 7 years old and boys are 8 years old: chèn (chèn)
"Shuowen": "A male's birth rate is eight months, and he has a mole at the age of eight; a female's birth age, and her age is seven years, and she has a mole."
"Child" refers to the loss of a child's deciduous teeth and the growth of permanent teeth. According to physiological conditions, boys lose their teeth at the age of 8 and girls at the age of 7, hence the name. "Shi Feng" is also a synonym for childhood.
Another: A girl is 7 years old, also known as her first year. 8-year-old boy is also called the nian.
8-14 years old: Zongjiao
Zong means bunching; Jiao, a small bun, means to send and receive knots. Children in ancient times divided their hair into two halves, the 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 "general horns". "Zongjiao" is also used to refer to a person's childhood stage.
Under 10 years old: Yellow Mouth
The original meaning of Huang Mouth is the mouth of a young bird.
10 years old: the year of kindergarten and foreign teachers
The year of the golden hairpin: the girl is 12 years old.
The girl is 13 years old: cardamom?
It comes from the poem "Farewell" by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu: "Pingping is more than thirteen years old, and the cardamom sprouts are in early February." It means the beginning of February. The cardamom flower waiting to bloom is a metaphor for a 13-year-old girl.
Men aged 13: Spoon Dance
A kind of dance learned by 13-year-old boys in ancient times.
Girls aged 15: hairpin (jī) "Book of Rites": "A girl should have hairpin when she is fifteen years old." Hairpin 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 when they were 15 years old, indicating that they had reached adulthood.
Men aged 15: tie their hair. When a man reaches the age of fifteen, he should disband his original hair and tie it into a bunch. "Book of Rites of Great Dai·Bao Fu": "Going to university with your hair tied up, you can learn great skills and practice great ethics." At this time, you should learn various skills.
Men aged 15-20 years old: Dancing Elephant
Dancing Elephant was originally the name of an ancient martial arts dance, and is also synonymous with adults. "Book of Rites·Nei Principles": "As a child, he dances with elephants and learns to shoot and control."
A woman is 16 years old: twenty-eight, the year of jade, the year of broken melons
In the old days, literati dismantled The character "gua" means the year of twenty-eight, which means sixteen years old.
Jin's Sun Chuo's "Jasper Song": "When the jasper breaks the melon, the man is turned upside down by love..." It writes the freshness and beauty of a young girl in her twenties.
Broken melon does not mean that a woman has lost her virginity. As mentioned above, the word melon is broken into two characters.
Twenty-year-old men: crowning and crowning
In ancient times, a man who was twenty years old received a crowning ceremony to indicate that he had reached adulthood, but his body was still not strong, so it was also called "weak crowning". In the past, when men and women came of age, it was also called "knotting" - tying their hair. Men wear their hair tied and crowned when they are 20 years old, and women wear their hair tied and hairdoed when they are 15 years old, indicating adulthood.
30 years old: Erli, Shishi, Kezhuang
Erli - derived from Confucius' remarks (previous article), "Li" means "to establish one's body and determination".
Shishi - from "The Book of Rites·Nei Principles": "When you are thirty and have a wife, you will start to take care of men's affairs."
Kezhuang - in the prime of life. Tang Wei Zheng's "Shi Gradually Cannot Be Confused at the End": "In the beginning of Zhenguan, the time was full of enthusiasm."
40 years old: no confusion
From Confucius's words, no confusion, "no confusion, Not confused" means.
50 years old: Ai, knowing destiny (knowing destiny), half a hundred
Ai - from "Book of Rites·Qu Lishang": "Fifty is called Ai."
Knowing destiny - derived from Confucius' remarks.
"The Analects of Confucius·Wei Zheng": At fifty, one knows destiny. It means that after the age of fifty, people know how difficult it is to realize their ideals, so they no longer pursue results when doing things, and are indifferent to personal honor and disgrace. Later generations used "knowing destiny" as the code for fifty years old.
60 years old: Ershun, sixtieth year, senior (qí)
Ershun - comes from Confucius' remarks;
Sixty days - my country uses ten days to make peace The twelve earthly branches are combined into sixty units in order, and the cycle repeats for sixty years. Usually it is called "Sixty Flowers Jiazi", also known as "Huajia".
61 years old: Returning the calendar
According to the chronology of the stems and branches, 60 years is a cycle, and the age of 61 is the time when a new cycle starts again, so it is called "returning the calendar" .
70 years old: the year of Congxin, the year of ancient times, the year of the state of the stick, the year of becoming political.
Congxin - comes from the words of Confucius;
The years of ancient times - Originated from Du Fu's poem;
I wear spring clothes every day when I return to the dynasty, and return home drunk every day at the head of the river.
Drinking debts are commonplace, but rare in the past seventy years.
You can see the butterflies deeply through the flowers, and the dragonflies are flying in the water.
The scenery of Chuanxiang is constantly changing. For the time being, we should appreciate each other and do not contradict each other.
——Tang Dynasty Du Fu's "Two Songs of Qujiang·Part 2"
The Year of the Stick Kingdom-when you are over seventy, you can use a cane to walk in the capital and the capital;
The year of governance - officials return the power of governance to the monarch. Refers to officials resigning and returning home.
77 years old: happy birthday
The cursive character "xi" looks like seventy-seven, so it refers to it.
80 years old: Umbrella longevity
Because the cursive shape of the character "umbrella" resembles "eighty", it is so called.
88 years old: rice longevity
Because the word "rice" looks like eighty-eight when it is opened, it is borrowed to refer to it. In addition, it also means that although you are old, you have a strong appetite.
90 years old: fish back and frozen pear
Indicates the skin condition of the elderly, see above.
99 years old: Baishou
Bai Shaoyi is "white", which is also 99, so it is borrowed.
100 years old: Qiyi
In Qiyi, Zhu Xi said that it is "the meaning of Zhou Zha", that is, it has turned around, "it is said that a hundred years have been completed." Yi, Zhu Xi said, "It's just about nourishing." That is, daily life requires maintenance.
"Book of Rites·Qu Lishang": "A hundred years is called Qi Yi." It means: when a person reaches a hundred years old, he needs filial sons to take care of him in terms of food, housing and other aspects.
108 years old: Tea longevity
The upper part of the character for tea is twenty, and the lower part is eighty-eight. The two are added together to get 108.
140 years old: Shuangqi, Shuangqing
In ancient times, people were 70 years old, and Shuangqi was twice as old, 140 years old.