How to call the old man in ancient times

Ancient titles for the elderly:

1. The year of the staff family: fifty,

2. The year of the staff township: sixty,

3. The year of the staff country: seventy,

4. The year of the staff dynasty: eighty.

Yellow hair: a long-lived old man.

Speech from the Classic of Poetry, such as "Poetry - Lu Song - Gong" "yellow hair on the back of the stage". The old man's hair turns from white to yellow. Cao Zhi's "Gift to the White Horse Wang Biao": "The king loves the jade body and enjoys the period of yellow hair." Tao Yuanming, "Records of the Peach Blossom Garden": "Yellow hair and tufts of hair, and enjoying themselves."

Mackerel: refers to a long-lived old man.

Speech from the Classic of Poetry, such as Poetry - Daya - Running Reeds: "Huangtai dui" (黃台背), "台" and "鲐" (鲐) are common. In "Er Ya - Shuo Xi" (尔雅-释诂), "鲐背" (鲐背) means "mackerel" (鲐背). The old man's body is spotted like a mackerel's back.

The word "mackerel" is used to refer to a person who is 100 years old.

The phrase "a hundred years of age is said to be a period of time" was used in the Book of Rites. It is said that a hundred-year-old man should be supported by his descendants. Su Shi's "Three Songs of Ziyu" (次韵子由三首)：""We may as well be idle everywhere, and we may count the years to our last birthday."

Expanded:

Anciently, the elderly referred to themselves as:

Addressing their own Generally use Yu, I give, my, stupid, a, I, myself, under, I despise, small, untalented, the words of the old man, the senior generation will use the old and so on.

Later generations honored the old man with high moral integrity and longevity by calling him "Jiang Lao" or "Jiang Ren" or "Jiang Sheng". The Tang Dynasty Liu Changqing's poem "Sending to Wuzhou Li Envoy Sheriff" says: "The sky is clear and wu women come out, and the soil is thick and Jiang people are many." Song dynasty qin guan "metabolism calendar day table" said: "announced the imperial edict, pre-cognizance Jin Rang of the year; province view custom, no doubt Jiang old year."

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