How to count age in ancient China?

1, 16 years old

Men at 16 years old is called the year of the dancing elephant; women are called the year of the broken melon, the year of the jasper, and the year of the twenty-eight years old;

2, 20 years old

Ga Guan Crown: refers to the age of twenty. In ancient times, men performed the ceremony of crowning at the age of twenty, indicating that they had reached adulthood.

Knotting hair: to bind hair, tie up hair, ancient men at 20 years old to bind hair and crown, women at 15 years old to bind hair and maturity, indicating adulthood. The symbols of adulthood for men and women are "crown" and "maturity" respectively.

Weak crown: the ancients at the age of 20, the crown ceremony, to show that adults, but the body is not yet strong, so it is called "weak crown". It refers to the adult. Weak crown: the ancient man 20 years old called "weak", this time to perform the "crown ceremony", that is, wearing a hat that has become a man. "Weak crown" that is, men over 20 years old. In later times, it was used to refer to a man's age of about twenty years. A man is twenty years old when his crown is weakened.

Peach and Li Nianhua: a woman is twenty years old.

3, 30 years old

The Year of Establishment: It is explained that when a person reaches the age of thirty he should be the age of self-supporting personality, self-supporting learning and self-supporting career. Now it has become a pronoun for a person in his thirties, used for men. Half-aged Xu Niang describes a woman in her thirties.

4. 40 years old

It is called the age of not being confused and strong.

5, 50 years old

over half a hundred years old, the year of knowing what is wrong, the year of knowing what is right, the year of ai sui, the year of the great diffusion.

6, 60 years old

Flower armor, the flat head of the Azi, the year of the smooth ear, the year of the staff village, the year of the return of the calendar.

The 60th birthday is called the year of returning to the calendar. Because according to the dry-branch chronology, 60 years for a round, 61 years of age is a new round of recalculation, so it is called "still calendar".

7, 70 years old

Ancient, the staff of the country of the year, to the year, to the government of the year, from the heart of the year, the year of the car.

8, 80 years old

The oldest age.