Folk funeral terms: What is the difference between the year of death and the whole year?

At this age? The seventh edition of Modern Chinese Dictionary is explained as follows: Nouns and honorifics refer to the age of the deceased, mostly to the elderly; Like what? 74 years old? . ?

Do you hear me? At this age? When I use this word, I think everyone will have a feeling of showing respect for the deceased. After all? Enjoy? As soon as this word appears, the pleasant scene of collapsing on a soft sofa or a chair with a backrest will appear in your mind, so use it to compose music for the year of death, that is to say, how many years have you enjoyed, although not all these years are beautiful, but? Enjoy? This kind of praise came out, probably because the old man died of bad omen at an advanced age, but it was a funeral.

There is a saying in the book Guo Youdao and Lin Zongbei: life is not melted, but it stands at forty. ? I want to live for a long time, but God didn't accept my idea, so I only walked in the world for 43 years. The people in the book here are only 43 years old, and they are also called the year of death, which seems to contradict the meaning in the modern Chinese dictionary. Is there a problem? Not exactly.

One-year-old * * * has two uses. At the age of one, in addition to describing the death of the old man, there is another saying that a person is said to have died in public. At this age? .

Annual significance

After the new year, there is another word that is similar to it? All year round. ? All year round? There are two interpretations of this word. The first meaning is all the year round, which has nothing to do with death, so I won't say much here.

There is another kind, which refers to the age at which people die, such as? At the age of eighty. ? It is very objective to say the age of a person's death, without any feelings, but it is still very respectful.

There is also a military strategist Song Jiang in Water Margin who advised Lei Heng to go up the mountain, but he refused. After sending his mother away all the year round, his brother became very congenial. ? There is no age after all seasons here. Although it means death, it means doing your best.

Generally speaking, these three usages are used all the year round, and the year of death is the highest in the sky. No respect, no praise, no prevention.

What does this mean? At this age? And then what? All year round? The difference is that one is a respectful word and the other is a conventional word.

Suggestions on talking about death

Since ancient times, China culture has implicitly taught Chinese sons and daughters to know manners, and rarely talks about such unlucky things as the death of the ghost Machamp in public. If you accidentally touch this kind of thing and say how old he was when he died, it is easy to feel your admiration for him.

If you accidentally mention those who don't deserve virtue and can't be described by respect, when they reach the age of death, as long as they are not too young when they die, they will be called politely? At the age of XX? .

Of course, the world is not all such polite and measured people. There are also many immoral people or gossips who openly discuss other people's deaths and make a scene in public. Look who died in the neighbor's house. There must be no virtue in the ancestors, or something bad has been done. ?

When this happens, I believe many people will despise the speaker. This kind of gossip about life and death is actually nothing when the family closes the courtyard door, but in public, it is the speaker's fault.

Modern people receive more and more education, and everyone's cultural quality is getting higher and higher. These things actually happen less and less. If you encounter a topic about death, I hope you will try to avoid it. If you must say it, why not? At this age? This kind of vocabulary, worse? All year round? This objective vocabulary is also acceptable.

Many people may think these statements are too melodramatic. What else is there? At this age? 、? All year round? Well, why don't you just say how many people will die soon? When you say these words in public, you may not feel anything, but for the families of the deceased, you don't know what the sour feeling is.

References:

Modern Chinese Dictionary, 7th Edition/Commercial Press

Official website, Stanford University: Former President Donald? Kennedy died in COVID-19 at the age of 88? World wide web

Japanese green leaf actor Shiga Kentaro died at the age of 7 1? newspaper

Encyclopedia entry? All year round? 、? At this age?

What's the difference between the whole year and the end of the year? ? Ye xuanchen