What is the name of a girl in ancient times?

1, girl

In ancient times, the most common way to call a girl is the word girl.

Generally refers to unmarried young women. The age range is generally from birth to marriage, can be collectively referred to women as girls. Girl may also refer specifically to a daughter.

The term refers to a young woman, mostly unmarried.

The 30th episode of "Rulin's Lay History": "Because the master's character was born too neatly, I expect that the girl who will be able to match some of them will not be able to do so, and I dare not come to say so."

"A Dream of Red Mansions" (红楼梦)第三回：""On one side, I heard someone say, 'Miss Lin is here! ...... Jia mother also called: 'Please girls. Today's guest has come from afar, so you don't have to go to school.'"

Zo Shi 《人鬼和他底妻的故事》："The girl probably has no one who is willing to match us, preferably a young widow."

2. Miss Qianjin

Anciently, unmarried girls from wealthy families were called "Miss Qianjin," but now the meaning has been extended to all unmarried women. In the Qin Dynasty, one gold was worth one taels, and in the Han Dynasty, one catty of gold was worth one gold.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, gold was often referred to as brass, and the term "thousand gold" was actually used to refer to "copper gold", which was later used to refer to the preciousness of gold. In social interaction, gradually, people will also be unmarried girls called "Miss Qianjin".

The earliest written record of the use of "a thousand pieces of gold" as a metaphor for a woman is found in the Yuan dynasty opera "Xue Rengui Returns to His Homeland in Honor," written by the songwriter Zhang Guobin, "You are a thousand pieces of gold in the family of the officials and eunuchs, so please feel free to do as you please." After the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were more novels in which girls were called "Qianjin".

3, beautiful people

This word in ancient times usually refers to talented women, or beautiful women, ancient times often refers to the woman in the memory of the woman, the ideal woman and talented women.

Song Yu's "Dengtu Zi Lustful Fugue": "The best person in the world is nothing like Chu; the beautiful person of Chu is nothing like Chen Li; the beautiful person of Chen Li is nothing like the son of Chen Dongjia."

Vernacular translation: the beauty of the world, no one can compare with the women of Chu, the beauty of the women of Chu, and no one can surpass the beauty of my hometown, and my hometown's most beautiful girl has to be my neighbor, the young lady of the East family.

Sima Xiangru of the Han Dynasty, "Changmen Fugue": "What is a beautiful person Ruoxi, step free to Yu; soul over anonymous and not reverse Ruoxi, shape withered and live alone?"

The vernacular translation: How foolish I am to do what I do just to win Langjun's heart. May I be given the opportunity to cry, and may you grant me an echo. Knowing that it is false, I still want to believe that it is sincere, and I look forward to meeting you at the long gate.

Expanded Information

Other Ancient Interpretations of Girl:

1. Father's Sister, Auntie

Yuan Dynasty, Doe's "Liu Hong's Marriage to the Maiden", Fracture I: "I said goodbye to my auntie's girl, and I went out."

The Eighth Episode of Journey of the Old Remnant: "A girl is also called an aunt."

Vernacular translation: girl means aunt.

Hong Shen "Fragrant Rice" Act III: " 荷香 : You are his girl, he is your nephew, he will call you 'Niangniang'."

2. It specifically refers to a daughter.

"Dream of Red Mansions," sixth: "Our girls young daughter-in-law, but also difficult to sell head and foot, but still give up my old face to touch."

Lao She, "Longshougou," Act II: "Let's say if I had a daughter who wanted to choose a villain for herself, I'd say: girl, grow up and keep your eyes peeled, don't pick the wrong person!"

3. Alias for little wife.

Yu Zheng Xie of the Qing dynasty "deci class draft - release small supplement Chu language maturity within the total angle of meaning": "small wife: said concubine, said Tsumago ...... said girl."

Vernacular translation: small wife said: "Called concubine, called women, called girls."

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Thousand Golden Girls (a term of endearment for a woman)

Baidu Encyclopedia. Jiaoren