The ancients often used some other names instead of age, what are these nicknames?

In today's society, when someone asks about age, we use numbers. But the age of the ancient Chinese was sometimes not expressed by numbers, and instead of directly saying how old someone is or how old they are, they were replaced by an age-related title. There are various titles, which is also a major cultural feature of ancient China.

First of all, when a baby is born for one month, it is called a "full moon" or "full moon" or "birth month", and when a baby is 100 days old or one year old, it is called "sun". Babies under the age of one are often referred to as "swaddling". When a child is two or three years old, it is called a "child" or "child".

When a child reaches the age of seven or eight years old, this age is called "sloppy". Of course, due to the yellow hair of young children, they are generally used to refer to children as "yellow children". In addition, since children in ancient times did not have the habit of tying their hair, they were also called "drooping" or "hairy years".

When a woman reaches the age of thirteen or fourteen, it is called the "cardamom years". A woman at the age of 15 is also known as "Helu". When a woman is sixteen years old, she has another name, that is, "broken melon", because the "melon" is split in half is "twenty-eight", according to the multiplication formula 2816, "broken melon" is sixteen years old, commonly known as "twenty-eight years".

In modern times, the age of sixteen is still called the "flower season", and the age of seventeen is called the "rainy season".

At the age of thirty, he is called "erui". At the age of forty, he is called "not confused", and at the age of fifty, he is called "knowing the destiny of heaven". Of course, due to exhaustion at the age of fifty, his hair has turned as pale as mugwort, which can also be called "moxa".

Sixty years old is called "Huajia" or "Ershun". "Seventy years old", ancient rare is also known as seventy years old, and "old age" refers to seventy to ninety years old, generally referring to old age. And the centenarian is called "Yiyi", which is already a very blessed old man!

Chinese culture is broad and profound, and the ancients have really worked a lot on age nicknames, and they are all in line with the characteristics of people's physical and mental development. Of course, there is more to ancient age than that.

Swaddling: a child who has just been born for a short time; Cardamom years: 13-14 years old, children: 2-3 years old, 60 years old, weak crown: 20 years old, and standing: 30 years old.

The weak crown represents 20 years old, the year of standing represents 30 years old, the year of not being confused represents 40 years old, the year of destiny represents 50 years old, the year of Huajia represents 60 years old, and the year of Gu Xi represents 70 years old.

The ancients were very particular about the nickname of age, and each age group would have a nickname. These aliases mainly include Dancing Spoon, Dancing Elephant, Crown Age, Standing, Not Confused, Flower Age, Knowing Destiny, Sixtieth Birthday, Ancient Rare, Old Age, Expectation, and Ancient Rare Shuangqing.

For example, cardamom, over half a hundred years old, Huajia, ancient rare, elderly, etc., are all other names for age, and these aliases are very common in poetry, as long as you see these aliases in poetry, you can know how old you are.

There are many nicknames for age: Age: Cardamom Age - 3 years old: Childhood - 8 years old: Hanging hair Age: Weak crown Age: Twenty-eight years.

In ancient Chinese society, people of different ages were called differently. Here are some common names:

Akako: Refers to an infant.

Child: refers to a toddler, about 3 to 6 years old.

Child: Refers to a child between the ages of 7 and 13.

Juvenile: refers to young people between the ages of 13 and 20.

Prime: Refers to adults between the ages of 20 and 40.

Middle-aged: refers to people around the age of 40 to 60.

Elderly: refers to a person over 60 years of age.

In addition, there are some titles for different genders and identities, such as women are called daughters, girls, daughters, etc., men are called Langjun, Gongzi, Shengzhou Liang Young Master, etc., and ** and nobles have specific honorific titles, such as adults, officials, adults, etc.

In ancient times, people of different ages were called differently, and here are some examples:

Infants: Dromache refers to children under the age of one, known as "swaddling babies", "nursing babies", "nursing babies", etc.

Toddler: refers to a child between the ages of one and seven, and is called "child", "Mengtong", "toddler", "child", etc.

Juvenile: refers to children between the ages of seven and eighteen, and is called "weak crown", "and tong", "schoolchild", "juvenile", etc.

Youth: refers to people between the ages of 18 and 30, and is called "youth", "youth is like a clever person", etc.

Prime: refers to people between the ages of 30 and 10, and is called "middle-aged", "prime-aged", etc.

Elderly: refers to people over the age of 50 and is called "elderly", "elderly", etc.

These terms vary depending on the era, region, cultural background, etc., but here are just a few common examples.

The names of different ages in ancient times can be divided into the following categories:

Early childhood: Children from birth to about six years old are called "infants", "infants", "infants", "infants", etc.

Childhood: Children between the ages of six and fourteen are called "virgins", "virgins", "teenagers", etc.

Adolescence: Young people around the age of fourteen to around twenty are called "teenagers", "youth", "young adults", etc.

Prime: People around the age of 20 to around 40 are called "prime", "middle-aged", "strong", "big husband", etc.

Middle-aged and elderly: People between the ages of 40 and 60 are called "middle-aged", "prime-aged", "middle-aged", "middle-minded", etc.

Old age: People who are around 60 years old and above are called "old people", "old people", "elders", etc.

Different historical periods, cultures, and regions may be called slightly differently, but this is just a general name.

There are four titles: Chudu, which refers to the time of the birthday, from "Lisao", which is the year of the first birth; Child, the skin color of a newborn baby is red, so there is such a saying; Swaddling clothes, babies are searched in swaddling clothes when they are young, referring to children under one year old; At the soup cake party, a banquet is held on the third day of the child's birth.

The age period is called early childhood and refers to the early childhood. From "Mencius": A child knows how to love his relatives.

The years are called the total horns. In ancient times, the ancients would tie their children's hair into sideburns. Pre-refers to childhood.

The year is also called Huangkou. The yellow mouth originally refers to the beak of a chick, borrowed from a child.

The age is called preschool. "The Book of Rites": Ten years of life is called kindergarten. Later, it was extended to the study of childhood.

There is a separate name for girls, called the year of the golden hairpin.

Girls are called cardamom, and boys are called dancers (referring to teenagers around the age of thirteen to fifteen).

In ancient times, there were many titles, and there were five different titles. They are and 笄 (refers to girls who have reached the age of 15); In the year of Zhixue, Zi said: "I have five out of ten and am determined to learn"; In ancient times, when a man reached the age of fifteen, he would spread out his horns and tie them into a bunch; The year of the dancing elephant refers to a teenager between the ages of 15 and 20; Adult child refers to the age of fifteen or slightly older than fifteen.

There is a saying that the age is called twenty-eight, and the main service ant grandson generally refers to girls.

There are three kinds of titles. Crowning means that a man is 20 years old and has reached adulthood, and the coronation ceremony indicates that he has reached adulthood; The second is the knotted hair, and the third is the weak crown.

The age of the woman is called the flower letter years.

12. Zi said: I have five out of ten and am determined to learn, thirty and stand, forty is not confused, fifty and knows the destiny of heaven, sixty and obedient, seventy and from the heart. The age of 30 years old, the age of 40 is called the year of no confusion.

There are two kinds of 50 years old, one is the year of not being confused just mentioned, and the other is called Ai, from "The Book of Rites and Rites": Fifty Ai. At the age of 54, it is said that it is sixty-nine years.

Other names for the age of the ancients: the year of the bundle of hair, the year of the hair, the year of the weak crown, the year of the standing, the sixtieth and so on.

In ancient times, when a man tied his hair at the age of 15, it means that you are already a big child, but you are not yet a minor; When a girl is 15 years old, she has reached adulthood, and the symbol is the year of the and the pipe, which is called the year of the and the pipe. Boys reach adulthood at the age of 20, and the crowning ceremony is performed, and the year of crowning is also called a crown or a weak crown; The girl is 20 years old, and she is called Tao Li Nianhua.

Men are 30 years old, and ancient women are 30 years old, although there is no specific statement, but generally 30-40-year-old women are called half-old, people to middle age and charm still exists.

In ancient times, the sexagenary branch was chronicled, a cycle every 60 years, each cycle was a jiazi, and the sexagenary branch corresponded to what zodiac signs, and it corresponded to the stars of life, in short, it was intricate, so it was called "Huajia".

The length of human life usually depends on a variety of factors such as genetic factors, living conditions, and individual mental conditions, and we can see through the report of "Special Research on Ancient Chinese Population History" that generally in troubled times, the life expectancy of the ancients was shorter, and when the prosperous era came, the life expectancy of the ancients was longer.

If we take the characters in the 24 histories as a sample and classify them according to the troubled times and prosperous times, we will find that the average life expectancy of the Han Dynasty was more than 60 years old, and by the Three Kingdoms and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the average life expectancy of the ancients dropped directly to more than 50 years. Later, the Sui and Tang regimes were repeated, among which the Tang Dynasty created several prosperous eras on the basis of the Sui Dynasty, and the average life expectancy of the ancients at this stage was more than 65 years old.

As for the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, due to the relative stability of the world, the average life expectancy of the ancients was also stable at more than 60 years old, but it was obviously lower than the average life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty.