In ancient times, male and female minors tied their hair into two corners. What did childhood become?

0 years old

Degree: When the child is born.

Childhood: refers to a child who is still in infancy when he just knows how to laugh.

Baby: a baby under one year old.

Soup and cake period: refers to the three days after the baby is born. In the old custom, when a child is born three days later, it is called "soup cake feast" to entertain relatives and friends, and it is also called "soup cake feast" or "soup cake party".

1 year

Fang: Onomatopoeia, the voice of a baby learning a language. Like babbling, it also means that children begin to learn words in this process. Qing Yuanmei's Ode to Sisters: "After your death, you gave birth to two female fangs." Zhou Xi refers to a baby's first birthday.

2 years old

Childhood: refers to a child who is still in infancy when he just knows how to laugh. Others write "children's bags" or "raising children". There is a sentence in Han Yu's poem that "the two families have children, raising children and caring for each other." Childhood: refers to children aged 2-3.

8 years old

Total angle: ancient children tied their hair in two knots on the top of their heads and tied it into a bun, which looked like an angle. Therefore, "total angle" is also used to refer to people's early childhood. Borrowed from childhood. Here, "total" means coalescence. A good friend I have known since I was a child. The total angle is a teenager between the ages of eight or nine and thirteen or fourteen (ancient children divided their hair into left and right halves and tied it in a knot at the top of their heads, which looks like two horns, so it is called "total angle").

Tongbi [chèn]: Bi, in Shuowen, there is a saying that "the male was born in August, but he was eight years old; A woman has teeth in July and dies at the age of seven. It can be seen that children's deciduous teeth fall off and grow permanent teeth, which is called "Chen." Childhood "often refers to people's childhood and adolescence." There are also some people who say that they are "princes", such as "The Biography of Dong Zhuochuan in the Later Han Dynasty": "Although their descendants are princes, women are princes. "

At first, the girl was seven years old.

First year: the boy is eight years old. Description: According to the physiological condition, boys are eight years old and girls are seven years old. They can change teeth, take off deciduous teeth and grow permanent teeth. This is called "childhood year", "childhood year" or "childhood year".

nine years old

Nine: Nine.

Yellow button: under ten years old.

Index year: the child is nine years old.

10 years old

Kindergarten: ten years old. (The Book of Rites? Qu Lishang: "Life is ten years old, learning." Because there were no punctuation marks in ancient Chinese characters, people intercepted the word "kindergarten" as a proxy for ten years old. )

Foreign Fu Zhinian: The child is ten years old.

12

Chai Jin Year: The girl is twelve years old. [

13 years old

Cardamom: refers to a thirteen-year-old woman. Cardamom is thirteen or fourteen years old to fifteen or sixteen years old (Cardamom is a plant that blooms in early summer, but not yet in midsummer, which means that people are still underage, so it is called "cardamom youth").

Thirteen: 13 years old.

Dancing at night: Teenagers are thirteen to fifteen.

15 years old

Ruxiang: Ruxiang [jρ] originally refers to the hairpin used in ancient times. Generally, after 15 years old, ancient women rolled up their hair and covered it with a hair clasp, indicating that they had reached adulthood. "She" refers to a woman who has reached the age of 15. And logistics: refers to a fifteen-year-old woman.

Tie your hair: tie your hair. In ancient times, men tied their hair at the age of 20, and women tied their hair at the age of 15, indicating adulthood. The signs of masculinity of men and women are "coronation" and "coronation" respectively.

Year of study: because "standing at thirty, not confused at forty." Confucius said, "Be determined to learn five out of ten, stand at thirty, be puzzled at forty, know your destiny at fifty, listen at sixty, and follow your heart at seventy." -"The Analects of Confucius governs"), so later generations called 15 years old "the year of learning".

Hair binding: The ancients took 15 as the age of adulthood, and tied up their hair and put it on their heads. Hair was tied when a man was fifteen (when he was fifteen, a man would dissolve the original corner and tie it into a bundle).

There is also logistics: the woman is fifteen years old. (The Book of Rites? Neze: "Women have five years in ten years. " )

Jasper's youth broke the melon: the woman was sixteen. (In the old days, scholars took the word "melon" as 2008, which was called sixteen years old, and was mostly used by women. )

The Year of the Dancing Elephant: Teenagers are fifteen to twenty years old.

Adult: fifteen or a little over fifteen. Zheng Xuan: "An adult child is over 15 years old".

16 years old

28: 16 years old.

Broken melon, jasper years-female 16 years old. The ancients in China divided it into two words to mark the year. "Popular Compilation" said: "If Yan Pin gave Zhang Yue" success should be in the year of breaking melons ",he would be 8864 years old". "Popular Woman" and "Song Xie has Pan Ci" Broken Melon Boy and Waist ". "According to the custom, it is wrong to beat a woman into a broken melon. The word melon is broken into two characters, and it is said that it is 286 years old. "[20 years old.

Crown: It means twenty years old. In ancient times, a man was crowned at the age of 20, indicating that he had reached adulthood. Crown: refers to a twenty-year-old man (also known as "weak crown").

Tie your hair: tie your hair. In ancient times, men tied their hair at the age of 20, and women tied their hair at the age of 15, indicating adulthood. The signs of masculinity of men and women are "coronation" and "coronation" respectively.

Weak crown: The ancients were crowned at the age of 20 to show masculinity, but they were not yet strong, so they were called "weak crowns". Refers to just coming of age. Refers to twenty years old. Weak crown: In ancient times, a man was called "weak" at the age of 20. At this time, he had to put on a hat to show that he had grown up. "Weak crown" refers to a man who has reached the age of 20. Later generations generally refer to the age of men in their twenties. Weak crown is a twenty-year-old man.

Tao: Female, twenty years old.

24

Flowers in love: female 24 years old.

30 years old

Standing (year of standing): because "standing at thirty, not confused at forty." Confucius said, "Be determined to learn five out of ten, stand at thirty, be puzzled at forty, know your destiny at fifty, listen at sixty, and follow your heart at seventy." -"The Analects of Confucius is a government"), so later generations call 30 years old "the year of establishment". Thirty years old: refers to thirty years old. Li is a thirty-year-old man.

Beginning room: thirty years old. "Book of Rites Internal Rules": "When you have a house at the age of 30, you will be in charge of men's affairs."

Ke Zhuang: Just in the prime of life. In ancient times, thirty years old was strong. Don Kevin·Z's "It is not easy to get rid of it": "At the beginning of Zhenguan, it is not easy to get rid of it."

Xu Niang: Female, thirty years old.

40 years old

Not confused (the year of not being confused): Because "standing at thirty, not confused at forty." Confucius said, "I am determined to learn five out of ten, stand at thirty, not be confused at forty, know my destiny at fifty, listen to my ears at sixty, and do what I want at seventy, without overstepping the bounds." -"The Analects of Confucius governs"), so later generations call 40 years old "the year of no doubt". The year of no doubt: refers to forty years old. Not confused is that the man is forty (not confused, "not confused, not confused").

50 years old

Ai: In ancient times, people who were fifty years old were called "Ai". "Book of Rites Qu Lishang": "Fifty is Ai." Ai is getting old.

Half a century, the year of knowing one's destiny and longevity: the year of knowing one's longevity refers to 50 years old (also known as "knowing one's destiny" and "half a century").

Know life: It's a 50-year-old man (know life, meaning "knowing destiny"). Know life is short for know life.

Know the destiny: Confucius said, "I am determined to learn five out of ten, stand at thirty, not be confused at forty, know the destiny at fifty, listen at sixty and walk at seventy." -"The Analects of Confucius"), so later generations called the age of 50 "the year of know life". [

The Year of know life: Because "standing at thirty, not confused at forty." Confucius said, "Be determined to learn five out of ten, stand at thirty, be puzzled at forty, know your destiny at fifty, listen at sixty, and follow your heart at seventy." -"The Analects of Confucius"), so later generations called the age of 50 "the year of know life". Year of know life: refers to 50 years old (also known as "knowing destiny" and "half a hundred").

54 years old

69: That is 54 years old.

60 years old

The year of listening, listening, calendar and flower: 60 years old. Because "standing at thirty, not confused at forty." Confucius said, "Be determined to learn five out of ten, stand at thirty, be puzzled at forty, know your destiny at fifty, listen at sixty, and follow your heart at seventy." -"The Analects of Confucius governs"), so later generations call 60 years old "the year of listening".

Old age: honorific, refers to the age of the elderly, mostly over 60 years old.

Hua Jia: heavenly stems and earthly branches uses it to date the year. Starting from A, 60 years becomes a week, so it is called 60 years old. Huajia: In ancient China, dry branches were used to record time. The so-called dry branch is short for heavenly stems and earthly branches. There are ten stems and twelve earthly branches, and the ten stems and twelve earthy branches are made into sixty units in turn, which are usually called "sixty flower jiazi" or "flower jiazi". When this time-keeping word is used to remember a person's age, it means that a person is 60 years old in the year of sixty.

Flower armor: refers to 60 years old, with branches dating, intricate collocation, repeated for 60 years.

Calendar year: refers to 60 years old.

Xia Shou: The ancients took the age of 60 as their next birthday. Xia Shou: It refers to people over 60.

Qi: In ancient times, people who were sixty years old were called Qi.

[qí] Ai: In ancient times, people aged 60 were regarded as ancestors.

6 1 year

Return the gift: 6 1 birthday. According to the chronological method of cadres and branches, 60 years is a round, and 6 1 year is the time for a new round of recalculation, so it is called "hijri".

70 years old

From "The Year of the Heart": Because "standing at thirty, not confused at forty." Confucius said, "Be determined to learn five out of ten, stand at thirty, be puzzled at forty, know your destiny at fifty, listen at sixty, and follow your heart at seventy." -"The Analects of Confucius governs"), so later generations call 70 years old "the year of self-mind".

Gu Xi: It is not easy for ancient people to live to 70 years old. Du Fu said in a poem: "Wine debts are common, and life is seventy years old." According to this poem, later generations called seventy years old "seventy years old".

Seventy years old, the year of trailer and the year of hanging pole: all refer to seventy years old.

Di [dié]: Seventy or eighty years old, generally referring to old age. For example, the years of [Mao] and [De].

Year of the staff around: 70 years old. [

Year of suspension: 70 years old.

77 years old

Happy birthday: it means 77 years old, and the cursive character is like 77, so it means 77 years old.

80 years

Dynasty year, dynasty year and [Mao] year of death: all refer to eighty or ninety years old.

Yao: It refers to eighty or ninety years old, and generally refers to old people, such as old women and octogenarians.

Yao [Mao] wrote in "On Salt and Iron, the Book of Filial Piety": "Seventy is Yao." "Book of Rites Quli" says: "890 is the time to die." Yi [dié], "Erya Shi Yan" Note: "Eighty is the best." Combined with the above statement, we can see that "one age" refers to a person's longevity, which is probably "seven old and eighty". [mo][dié]: refers to old age. Mao in his eighties and nineties. This cave is seventy or eighty years old. Mao and die mean eighty or ninety years old. Mao Chuan added, "You old man, you are eighty years old." Later generations called this 80-year-old man "very old".

The year of [gross] and [death]: refers to eighty or ninety years old. Ninety-year-olds can also be called octogenarians.

Middle age: refers to over 80 years old.

Umbrella is 80 years old. Because the grass with the word "umbrella" looks like "eighty", it is called "umbrella life".

88 years old

Mishou: It means 88 years old. Because the word rice looks like eighty-eight, which means eighty-eight. In addition, it also means that although you are old, you have a great appetite.

90 years old

Shangshou: 90 is Shangshou.

Mackerel back: Mackerel is a kind of fish, and the stripes on its back are like the wrinkled skin of an old man. . In old age, senile spots appear on the skin, such as the skin of frozen pears, so it is also called "frozen pears".

99 years old

Bai Shou: It means 99 years old, and one percent is 99, so it means 99 years old.

100 years old

Period: refers to a hundred years old. The first stage: In the first stage, Zhu said it meant "the turn of the week", that is, he turned around and said, "It is said that a hundred years have passed". H, what Zhu said is "to support", that is, to maintain the poet's daily life. Yi is a centenarian. Period refers to one hundred years old. "Yi Shi" is a special name for "centenarian" in life. "Book of Rites Quli Shang": "A hundred years is long." Zheng Xuan's note: "The period is still important; Easy and nurturing. I don't know the taste of clothes, but the dutiful son has to practice Buddhism. " It means that when people reach the age of 100, they need the care of filial sons in food, housing, animals and other aspects, so the "centenarian" is called the "longevity old man". [

Shangshou: a hundred years

Longevity year: refers to a hundred years old.

108 years old

Tea life: refers to 108 years old. 20 on the top and 88 on the bottom of the tea word add up to 108 years old.

140

Double rare, double celebration-one hundred and forty years old.

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In addition, children:

Tong Ru: Children.

Pendant: refers to children. The children tied their hair in a bun. Pendulum: Pian [tiáo] refers to the short hair that naturally droops when ancient children don't tie their hair. So we use "crying" to call children, or refer to people's early childhood. Some people also say "drooping hair", which means the same thing. For example, there is a saying in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty that "you can only succeed if you serve the army." Crying: the child's hair is tied up and drooping, which refers to childhood. Crying: refers to young children (also called "total angle"). Stripes are children aged three or four to eight or nine (stripes, short hair hanging down from the heads of ancient children).

[Article]: Children change their teeth. Year: childhood.

Li (tiao) year: childhood.

Pian [tiáo] Age: childhood.

Bundle hair: refers to teenagers.

Childlike heart: call youth childlike heart.

Below the knee: In childhood, children can only hold their parents' knees when they are young. The Sacred Rules of Filial Piety: "Therefore, my own life is only at my knees."

Ruzi: Children. "On Mencius Li Lou": "There is a song of a willing ox, which says,' The surging water is crystal clear and can hold my tassel. ""is also used as a title for old people to address young people. According to historical records, "My father returned it when he arrived, saying,' Junko can teach.' "

In addition, adults also:

Crown winner: refers to adults.

Waiting year, waiting word: refers to the age at which a woman will get married when she reaches adulthood. "Love for years, the golden sound will be revived" (Selected Works of Emperor Wen Song and Empress Yuan Cewen). "Women are allowed to get married, and they are embarrassed." ("Book of Rites Quli Shang")

Having a house and a home: the year when a man marries a woman. Mencius Teng Wengong: "A husband is born with a house, and a woman is born with a home." Zhu Note: "Men take women as their rooms and women take men as their homes."

Disgruntled wife: refers to older unmarried women. Mencius on Hui Liang: "There is no dissatisfied wife inside, no husband outside. " [

Husband in a broad sense: refers to an older unmarried man.

In addition, the elderly have:

Zhang Jia nian: fifty

Zhang Xiangnian: 60

Zhang Guo era: seventy years old.

Age of the staff: eighty.

Book of Rites: "Fifty sticks are at home, sixty sticks are in the countryside, seventy sticks are in the country, eighty sticks are in the court, and ninety people who want to ask are in the room."

Gray: That old man. The old man's hair is gray because it refers to the old man.

Yellow hair: refers to the elderly who live longer. The old man's hair changed from white to yellow. "Yellow hair" is yellow hair. When people get old, their hair turns from black to white and their white hair turns yellow.

Whitehead: Whitehead refers to old age.

Longevity: Longevity.

Eyebrow longevity: [Mao] longevity, longevity. When people get old, they have long eyebrows, so they are called Mei Shou.

Mu: An old woman.

Old age: old age, old age.

Warm birthday: the old custom is that the day before the birthday, family and close relatives and friends come to celebrate the birthday.

Longevity: the meaning of longevity.

Distant age: refers to longevity and advanced age.

From ancient times to the present, the appellations of infant, young, young, strong, middle-aged and old in China are really varied, elegant and interesting.

Babies under one year old;

2~3 years old-childhood;

Girls are 7 years old-years old;

The boy is 8 years old-the year of aging;

Youth is generally called-total angle;

10 years old-Huangkou;

13~ 15 years old-the year of dancing spoon; [

15~20 years old-the year of dancing elephants;

12 years old (female)-year of Chai Jin;

13 years old (female)-cardamom,

15 years old (female)-and year of death;

16 years old (female)-year of broken melon, year of jasper;

20 years old (female)-Tao Li Nianhua;

24 years old (female) in love;

Want to get married-Mei Nian;

To 30 years old (female)-Xu Niang, who is half old;

20 years old (male)-weak crown;

30 years old (male)-30 years old;

40 years old (male)-the year of no doubt, the year of the strong;

50 years old-more than half a century, the year of knowing right and wrong, the year of knowing life, the year of loving your husband, and the year of Dayan;

60 years old-the year of the flower, the year of the flat head, the year of the ear and the eye, the year of Zhang Xiang;

70 years old-ancient and rare, the year of the country, the year of events, and the year of politics;

80 years old-the year of the staff;

80~90 years old-octogenarians;

90 years old;

100 years old-Qiyi.

Ancient nicknames

General angle: refers to childhood.

The words in The Book of Songs, such as Feng Wei's Self-protection, General's Mansion and Feng Qitian's Mansion, are all from the perspective of General's Mansion. In the future, it will be called childhood "total angle". Preface to Tao Yuanming's Poem Murong: "The general angle hears the Tao, and the white poem achieves nothing."

Look down: refers to childhood.

In ancient times, boys were not crowned and their hair drooped, so "crying" was used to refer to childhood. Pan Yue's "Borrowing Land Fu": "Being shaken by Brown is always looked down upon." [

Bundle hair: refers to teenagers.

Generally speaking, it means 15 years old. At this time, you should learn all kinds of skills. Dai Fu Bao: "Let's go to college, learn great arts and complete the festival."

Logistics: refers to female 15 years old.

The Book of Rites says that "a woman ... has been married for five years". "Cue" means for marriage, which means that you have reached the age of marriage.

Waiting year: refers to the adult marriage of women, also known as "waiting word".

The language in "Empress Cao in the Later Han Dynasty" says that "the young stay in the country". In the future, women's marriage age will be called "waiting year". Selected Works of Song Wendi in Mourning the Empress of Yuan Dynasty: "Therefore, I will wait for the New Year, and the golden sound will be revived. "

Weak crown: refers to a 20-year-old man

Language "Book of Rites Qu Lishang" "Twenty weak and crowned". The ancient man was crowned at the age of 20, indicating that he had reached adulthood. Zuo Si wrote in a poem "Ode to History": "A weak crown makes a gentleman stand out from the crowd."

Standing: refers to 30 years old.

The language "The Analects of Confucius is a government" is "standing at thirty". In the future, thirty will be called the year of "standing". Long Qing, a lonely monk from a strange story in a strange studio, said, "When a friend comes to his hometown, he respects him and sees that he is silent and sincere. He is only one year old."

There is no doubt: it means 40 years old.

The language in The Analects of Confucius is "forty without confusion". In the future, use "no confusion" to represent 40 years old. Ying Kun's "Answer to Han Wenxian's Letter": "My first year, I am not confused."

Ai: It means 50 years old.

Out of the Book of Rites Quli Shang, "Fifty Words of Love". Old people have pale hair. "The Popular Romance of the Republic of China" 37 times: "... I have reached the age of Ai, what am I dissatisfied with?"

Flower armor: refers to 60 years old.

Named after heavenly stems and earthly branches's intricate name. Ji Chenggong's Chronicle of Tang Poetry (Volume 66): "(Zhao Mu) Li Changji, a middle school student in Xian Tong, wrote a short song and said to the wine,' Manually spend sixty flowers, and the cycle is like a pearl'."

Gu Xi: It means 70 years old.

From Du Fu's Qujiang poem: "Wine debts are everywhere, and life is 70 years old." Also known as "Gu Xi".

Whitehead: refers to old age, also known as "Whitehead".

"The Biography of Lu Qiang in the Later Han Dynasty": "Therefore, Duan Ying, Tai Wei, bravely established the world and was used to frontier affairs, and made great achievements." [

Yellow hair: refers to the long-lived elderly.

The book of songs, such as The Song of Truffles and Huangfa Taipei. The old man's hair turned from white to yellow. Cao Zhi's "Giving a White Horse to Wang Biao": "Wang Qi loves the county and enjoys the yellow hair period." Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden: "I am yellow and I am happy."

Chubei: refers to the long-lived elderly.

Poems, Elegance, Walking on Reed, Huangtaipei, Taitai and Tun in The Book of Songs are all common. Er Ya Shi Shu: "A broken back leads to a long life." The old man has spots on his back like mackerel.

Period: refers to a hundred years old.

Language "Book of Rites Quli Shang" is "a hundred years, easy". It is said that centenarians depend on their children and grandchildren to support them. Su Rub's "Two Rhymes and Three Trilogy": "You might as well build it around and count the days."

Reader's Digest No.1 1983

On ancient nicknames

Li Wei

I read the article Another Ancient Name published by Comrade Kuen Yeung in the first issue of Reader's Digest (1983), and I was very interested. I also extracted a little fun.

Tanghe cake period: Babies were born in three dynasties, which is called Tanghe cake period.

This language is Liu Yuxi's "Send a Wash Poem".

First degree: refers to the first year of a child's life.

From The Story of Childhood Learning by Qing Dynasty writer Cheng. Later, it was also commonly called "the first birthday". For example, the 60th birthday was called "60th birthday".

Spoon: refers to children.

The language "Biography of Han Poetry" Volume 1: "Male was born with teeth in August and toothless at the age of eight. July female teeth, seven years old and teeth ... "

Teaching age: refers to a nine-year-old child.

Year of foreign happiness: refers to a ten-year-old child.

Dance spoon year: refers to the age of thirteen for children.

All the above are from Ji.

The year of broken melon: refers to a sixteen-year-old woman.

This is the old literati who split the word "melon" into two words to mark the year. Vulgar Girl: "Song Xieyou wrote:' A boy with a broken melon has a small waist'. According to custom, it is wrong to beat a woman to pieces. The word melon is broken into two or eight words, and it is said that it is two or eight years old. " The year of the broken melon is also called sixty-four. "Popular Compilation" says: "If you give Zhang:' Success should be in the year of breaking melons', then he will be 8864 years old". In the year of having a house, men take women as their houses and women take men as their homes, so the year of having a house is the year of getting married. Li went to Li Shang. [

The year of the Zhang family: refers to fifty years old.

Year of Zhang Xiang: refers to sixty years old.

Zhang Guo year: refers to 70 years old.

Age of the staff: eighty years old.

All the above titles are from Wang Zhi.

Summer harvest: sixty years old.

Tadashi: Eighty years old.

Shang Shou: One hundred years old.

The above title is from Zhuangzi.

Flowers bloom again: 120 years old.

Celebrate both antiquity and rarity: 140 years old.

In addition, people over the age of 60 are collectively referred to as "old people" and people over the age of 80 are called "otters". Others refer to the elderly as "Dragon Bell" and "Down and Out Year". Guang Yun: "Dragon bells, bamboos and old people shake like bamboo sticks, and they are forbidden to hold them until they are cured. People's embarrassment, the flowing water of the Tao is also blocked, such as people's experience, so the cloud. "

Ancient appellation

In the process of learning ancient prose, we often come across some words expressing age appellation, such as "weak crown" and "hard work". Students are often confused about this. In fact, there are many words like this, which we must know in the process of learning ancient Chinese. The ancient age appellation came from different sources, most of them were named according to the physiological characteristics of different ages, but some of them followed the words of their predecessors and became fixed names.

Of all age appellation, the title "ninety" is the most interesting. Or "mackerel back", mackerel is a kind of fish, and the stripes on its back are like the wrinkled skin of an old man. . In old age, senile spots appear on the skin, such as the skin of frozen pears, so it is also called "frozen pears".

There are also names based on physiological characteristics, for example, people are called "babies" at birth because they need to be held on their chests to feed them. Babies can pass fake, fake breasts. A baby is a child held on his chest. Seven-year-old is not only called "mourning", but also called "losing teeth", so it is called because it is the period of changing teeth. Fifteen years old is called "child" and "when there is no vegetation on the mountain, it is called" child ". Ancient 16 years old adult, 15 years old men were not crowned, women were not crowned. Metaphor is used here.

In addition, what we often say now is "the year of establishment", "the year of no doubt" and "the year of know life" come from the records in The Analects of Confucius: "Confucius said: Five out of ten are determined to learn, thirty are standing, forty are not confused, fifty know the destiny, sixty are obedient, and seventy are not willing to leave." [

The Book of Rites, compiled by Dai Sheng, a Han Chinese, said: "Life is ten years old, twenty weak, thirty strong, forty strong, fifty ai, sixty, eighty and ninety years old." Among them, there is also the saying that you are guilty for years. However, later generations often regard "infant learning" and "weak crown" as age appellation, which is probably the reason why the vocabulary of later generations has developed from monosyllabic to disyllabic.

In China, there is also a tradition of keeping track of cadres and party branches. 60 years is a round, so there is a saying that 60 years old is the "year of the flower". Du Fu said in a poem: "Wine debts are common, and people are seventy or twenty years old." As a result, seventy has another nickname of "seventy years old".

Of course, there were more than these appellations in ancient times, and many of them were scattered in various ancient books, but they were not handed down because they were used less. These mentioned above have been used by later generations because of their high frequency of use and strong vitality. Some of them have also entered our daily communication, such as Standing at Thirty. For example, from the words "baby" and "child", we can't see the difference between history and today.

And:

Baby: less than one year old.

Child: Two to three years old.

First year, teenager: the boy is eight years old.

General angle: the general term for childhood.

The year of hanging steamed buns: refers to children. Yellow button: under ten years old.

Kindergarten: ten years old.

The year of dancing spoon: thirteen to fifteen years old.

Chi Xue: Fifteen.

The year of dancing elephants: fifteen to twenty years old.

Weak crown: twenty years old.

Thirty years old: thirty years old.

The year of no doubt: forty years old.

The year of knowing destiny and knowing right and wrong: fifty years old.

Listening to flowers: 60 years old.

Seventy years old: seventy years old.

Age of the staff: eighty years old. [

People in their eighties and nineties.

Yi: centenarians.

At first, the girl was seven years old.

Chai Jin Year: The girl is twelve years old.

Cardamom: The woman is thirteen years old.

There is also logistics: the woman is fifteen years old.

Jasper's youth broke the melon: the woman was sixteen.

Tao: Female, twenty years old.

Flowers in love: female 24 years old.