What were the ancient designations of age from 1 to 100?

I. Early Years

1. First Degree: It refers to the time of birthday. It is from "Li Sao": "The emperor will consider the first degree of Yu, and will give Yu a good name. Also known as the birthday of the "first degree", from the "History of the Yuan": the day of the first degree of the group of ministers do not congratulate.

2, the period of soup cake: refers to the baby was born three days. The old custom of three days after the birth of a child, set up a feast to entertain friends and relatives called "soup cake feast", also known as "soup cake feast", "soup cake will be".

3, Chizi: refers to the newborn baby, the original baby was born red, so called "Chizi".

4. Swaddling clothes: This refers to children under the age of one, but is now used to refer to babies under the age of one. Swaddling fabric would be the quilt and bandage that would wrap the baby.

2. Teenager

1. The year of the golden hairpin: a girl of twelve.

2. Cardamom: a girl is 13 or 14 to 15 or 16 years old. Cardamom is a kind of early summer flowering plants, early summer is not yet summer, the metaphor is that people are not yet adults, so the underage girlhood is called "cardamom years".

Three, youth

1, into the child: 15 or 15 years of age.

2. The Year of the Dancing Elephant: a teenager 15 to 20 years old.

3, broken melon, Jasper years: the old literati split the "melon" character for two eight to chronicle, said sixteen years old. In poetry, it is mostly used for women.

4, crown: refers to the man 20 years old. In ancient times, a man was 20 years old when he performed the ceremony of crowning, indicating that he had become an adult.

Four, middle age

1, not confused years: 40 years old. 40 years old for "not confused years".

3, know the fate of heaven: 50 years old. The Analects of Confucius - For Political Affairs: Fifty years old and knowing the destiny of heaven. It is said that after the age of fifty, you know the difficulty of realizing your ideals, so you no longer pursue the results of what you do, and you are already indifferent to your personal honor and disgrace. Later generations used the term "knowing the fate of heaven" as a synonym for the age of fifty.

Fifth, old age

1, the ear, the year of the ear, the year of the flower armor: are 60 years old. The term from the ancient Chinese calendar, to sixty years for a cycle, a cycle known as a cycle, but also because the names of the heavenly stems and earthly branches are numerous and intertwined, also known as the flower armor.

2, also calendar life: 61 years of life.

3, from the heart of the year: 70 years old.

4, rice life: 88 years old. Because the word "rice" is like eighty-eight, it refers to 88 years old.

5, white life: 99 years old, a hundred less than one for 99, so 99 years old.

6, period Yi: refers to a hundred years of life.