When was the year of broken melon used to describe women? Why is it called "broken melon"?

When did you describe a woman in the year of broken melon? Why is it called "broken melon"? The editor-in-chief will provide you with detailed relevant contents.

The ancients described a person's age in many different ways. Different ages have different names. However, many words can be used to describe the same era for a long time. There is such a word that is easily misunderstood, "broken melon". In fact, broken melon refers to the age of girls, so how big is broken melon? Why is it called broken melon? What does broken melon mean?

History has passed, and great changes have taken place in people's life and language habits. Now when it comes to age in life, we usually say how old we are. But in ancient times, our ancestors often used some words to express people's age. Words used to describe men are "year of birth", "year of old age" and "year of weakness". It is also used to describe the age of women. For example, "the year of golden hairpin" and "the year of cardamom" refer to women aged 12 and 13. The most misleading thing should be 16-year-old women's "broken melon year". In modern times, people who seldom study often think wrong.

You can imagine such a scene. A big watermelon grows more mature and moist. We broke it open, the pulp and juice splashed out, and then it split in half, revealing the red pulp. When you think of this scene, is it particularly beautiful? Then let's think about the marriage age of ancient women. 16 The age of becoming a monk is most suitable for ancient women. At this time, the girl has fair skin and can squeeze water with her hands. After the ceremony with her husband, her husband and wife lived in the same room.

A broken watermelon has something to do with the skeletons in the closet between a 16-year-old girl and her husband. Some people will admire the wisdom and imagination of the ancients. Everything is just right, even some vivid images. But everyone is wrong. The so-called "year of broken melons" is not what we imagined.

In the dictionary, the definition of "broken melon" is not chastity, but a woman of 16 years old. In ancient times, the Tang poem "The Year of Broken Melon" recorded: "The year of broken melon is not the year of broken melon, but the year of jade emperor." Maybe some male compatriots will feel wrong when they see this poem. There is nothing they can do. Chinese is becoming more and more extensive and profound. The meaning of this sentence is very simple, that is, XXX sent a singer, less than 16 years old, who has a hobby of playing flute.

However, the interpretation of "the year of broken melon" is to break the word "melon". Two horizontal lines represent two, two left lines and two left lines are eight. Therefore, the "year of broken melon" is "28 years old" and is 16 years old. In fact, the wrong interpretation of this word is not everyone's fault, because the first mistake is a sentence in Feng Menglong's "Du Shiniang's Furious Treasure Box" in the Ming Dynasty: "I broke this melon at the age of 13, and now I am 19. Not only have I experienced many children and grandchildren. " Therefore, Chinese characters are too cultural, and the phenomenon of reading words to create meanings occurs from time to time, but we still need to read more books and strengthen our self-cultivation.

Due to the low productivity and lack of medical care and food in ancient times, the average life expectancy was much shorter than today. The stone age is less than 20 years. Even in the early days of liberation from 65438 to 0949, the average life expectancy of China people was only about 58 years old. Therefore, early marriage and childbearing were common and inevitable phenomena in ancient China.

Now whose girl gave birth to a child at the age of 20, I'm afraid it will make people laugh. In ancient times, a 20-year-old girl without her husband's family would become a leftover woman. Even in some dynasties, if the girl in the family is not married at the age of 20, she is likely to violate the king's laws and her parents will be punished in the county government.

In ancient times when productivity was not high, people always relied on the birth rate to get more labor to make up for the economic shortage. Especially in wartime, in order to defend the country and defend the forces of one side, it is necessary for the powerful to expel the army.

In addition, the status of women in that era was extremely low and they could only be used as fertility tools. Only a few excellent family members have received cultural education. Generally speaking, girls aged 16 and 17 will get married and have children when they are sexually mature. She often becomes a woman overnight, which is called broken melon.

There is also a saying that breaking a melon shows a woman's maturity. If the word "melon" is decomposed, it can be divided into eight characters, eight characters or twenty-six. There is a poem saying: Jasper marked melons at the beginning of the year, indicating that the daughter of this family is sixteen years old. Is it hard or sad, hurt or sad?

In addition, some people say that broken melon refers to menarche of women, that is, "broken melon sees red tide". Broken watermelon is red, but broken watermelon is still red? For menarche, the ancients called it Tiangui, and the corresponding age was 14 years old. Both Neijing and Compendium of Materia Medica say so.