What did the ancients call themselves?

Appellations in ancient times can be divided into baby year, childhood year, childhood year, general's horn year, weeping year, yellow mouth year, golden hairpin year, cardamom year, dancing spoon year, braiding year, melon year, jasper year, broken melon year and dancing elephant. Zhang Guo's year, his career year, his ruling year, his dynasty year, his family year, his middle age year, his octogenarian year, his return year, his birthday, his birthday, the reopening of his family and ancient and rare celebrations.

Baby: less than one year old.

Children: 2-3 years old.

Li: This girl is seven years old.

Year: The boy is 8 years old.

General angle: the general term for childhood.

Look down: childhood.

Huangkou: 65438+ under 00 years old.

Chai Jin year: girl 12 years old.

Cardamom: girl 13 years old.

Dance spoon year: 13- 15 years old.

Bundle hair: teenagers.

And the year of death: girl 15 years old.

The year of broken melon, emerald and broken melon: girl 16 years old.

Dance Year: 15-20 years old.

Tao: This girl is 20 years old.

Weak crown: the boy is 20 years old.

Playboy: The girl is 24 years old.

The year of plum blossom: until marriage.

30 years old: boys are 30 years old.

The year of no doubt, the year of strength: the boy is 40 years old.

Over half a hundred years old, the year of knowing right and wrong, the year of knowing life, the year of Dayan, the year of Zhang Jiazhi: 50 years old.

Flower armor, flat head armor, year listening, year hometown, next life: 60 years old.

In ancient times, the year of the country, the year of the cause and the year of the government: 70 years old.

The year of the rod dynasty, the year of the rod family, and the middle life: 80 years old.

80-90 years old.

The year of injury: 90 years old.

Life expectancy and life expectancy: 100 years.

Flowers reopen: 120 years old.

Ancient and rare: 140 years old.

Ancient age appellation:

Age appellation in ancient times included children's appellation, adults' appellation and old people's appellation.

Child appellation:

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.' "。

Adult appellation:

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.

Address for the elderly:

Zhang Jianian: Fifty.

Zhang Xiangnian: 60.

Zhang Guo era: 70 years.

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.

The origin of ancient appellation:

In the process of reading ancient prose, we often come across some words expressing age appellation, such as "weak crown" and "fatigue". Students are often confused about this. In fact, there are many words like this, which we must know in the process of reading 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, we often say "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, stand at thirty, stay at forty without doubt, know the destiny at fifty, obey at sixty and obey at seventy." 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. But later generations often refer to "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. Our country also has the tradition of keeping track of the year of cadres and cadres, and 60 years is a round, so there is a saying that 60 years old is the year of flowers and flowers. Du Fu said in a poem: "Wine debts are common, and life is 70 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.