Is 35 considered middle-aged?

The power of traditional concepts and cultural background: I am 30 years old and entering middle age.

The most common saying among Chinese people is "Thirty", and usually we do regard 30 as the starting point of middle age. For a long period of time, most Chinese people will start a family and start a career before the age of 30, and starting a family and starting a career is an important sign of getting rid of youth and entering the true adult stage. To some extent, this iconic significance even exceeds the number "30" itself.

To this day, in some places in China, the custom of giving lucky money during the New Year is still retained. Those who receive lucky money are not necessarily young and innocent children, but also include unmarried adult men and women. However, men and women who have not yet started a family may still receive lucky money even if they are over 30 years old. The cultural subtext is "you are still a child, not an adult." Of course, you cannot be called a middle-aged person. However, this cultural psychology also has its upper limit. Generally speaking, if you are over 40 and still unmarried, you will still be considered middle-aged. However, changes in the world and the progress of the times are slowly changing this collective psychological perception.

With the improvement of living conditions, the improvement of health awareness, and the popularization of fitness culture, more and more Chinese people still look like young people between the ages of 30 and 40. Therefore, in terms of appearance alone, it would be a bit far-fetched to say that 30 years old is middle age. However, our culture and collective psychology do believe that people in their 30s are generally considered middle-aged.

Discussion: There is an interesting psychological phenomenon. When we are young people in our teens or twenties, we will take people in their thirties as middle-aged people for granted. But when we enter the ranks of thirty-year-olds, we desperately classify ourselves as young people in our hearts. Although this psychological tendency of "classifying others as middle-aged and classifying yourself as young" has some selfish implications, it is considered a normal psychological state in psychological research. Researchers in psychoanalytic theory call it "Jealous".

Young appearance is the first psychological dividing line between ages.

Compared with the abstract concept of traditional cultural background, each person's appearance is actually the first psychological dividing line between age groups. People's aging is first intuitively reflected in their appearance, and the aging rhythm of most people is basically the same, so we can judge whether the person is young, middle-aged, or old from the first sight of a stranger. If you are 35 years old, but you are old-fashioned, have many wrinkles, and have some vague hair, without knowing your age, it would not be an injustice to treat you as a middle-aged person. On the contrary, if the skin is firm, the face is thin, and the body is slim, the first impression given is that young people are well-deserved, at least several steps ahead of most of their peers.

A joke that is often ridiculed among public figures is the age difference between Jimmy Lin and Guo Degang. In fact, Guo Degang is only 1 year older than Lin Zhiying, but Lin Zhiying still looks youthful, while Guo Degang is standard middle-aged. Guo Degang teased Lin Zhiying and said, if you don't age, we will go crazy. The speaker has no intention, the listener has the intention, but in our hearts we wish we could all live like Jimmy Lin and make others go crazy!

A small conclusion is that if you are standing at the intersection of 35 years old and do not want to be considered middle-aged by others, then the most important thing you should do is to work hard to maintain a youthful appearance. And a graceful figure!

Good physical fitness is the essential difference between youth and aging.

However, appearance is just an appearance, or it is just an external reflection of a person's aging. True aging lies in lack of physical strength and declining health, while true youth lies in maintaining physical fitness. Physical fitness is reflected in many aspects such as strength, speed, endurance, coordination, flexibility, and agility. Therefore, if 35-year-old people want to look younger, they should not enter the pit of "greasy middle age" too early. Persisting in long-term exercise is the most important way, no one. To maintain a youthful state of physical fitness, you should at least be better than the average person of the same age. Only then can you be qualified to say that you are still a young person at the age of 35. In short, keep exercising!