Standing at thirty, forty without confusion, fifty with half a hundred with knowledge of life, sixty with beauty or obedience, seventy with rarity, eighty with ninety.

Mào dié: eighty or ninety years old, generally referring to elderly men. In ancient times, there were differences between men and women in addressing age. Generally speaking, men call it "longevity", while women don't call it longevity, but generally call it "happiness". There is an ancient tablet in Xiacaiyuan Village, Fule, Luoping, Yunnan Province, which says that an old woman in Wangxing village lived 100 years old, so she has this title.

"Period" here means expectation, expectation, "H" means support, and "Period" means that a person needs and expects his descendants to support him because of his advanced age.

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Appellations of different times in ancient times

1, Chizi: A newborn baby. Kong said to him, "A child is born red, so some people say that he is a child.

2. swaddling clothes: Also known as "swaddling clothes" and "sturdy clothes", the original intention is to wrap the quilt and belt around the baby. For example, "Biography of Yuhuan in the Later Han Dynasty": "When you are young, the more you protect it." Later, it refers to babies under one year old.

3. Childhood: refers to two or three-year-old children. Mencius devoted himself: "The son of the son is also." Zhao Qi's Note: "When I was a child, between two or three years old, when I was a baby, I knew my child was smiling, so I could hug him." Also called "baby hug".

4. Children change their teeth. "Biography of Han Poetry": "The male was born in August and bared his teeth at the age of eight; Women have teeth in July and show their teeth at the age of seven. " That is, children of seven or eight years old.

5. bereavement: refers to childhood. When children grow up, they can't tie their hair in a bun, and their hair naturally droops, so "crying" is used to refer to childhood.

6. Kindergarten: 10 years old. "Book of Rites Quli Shang": "Life is ten years, and you learn when you are young." Zheng Xuan Note: "You can learn while you are young." Later, he called ten years old "the year before school".

7. General perspective: refers to childhood. In ancient times, young men were not crowned, young women were not married, and their hair styles were sparse. They just combed their hair into two buns, which seemed to be a corner of their heads.

8. Cardamom: Originally a plant name, it refers to a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old. Du Mu's "Farewell" poem says: "The flowers are more than thirteen, and the cardamom is in early February." Later, because the woman was thirteen or fourteen years old, she was called "cardamom".

9. Logistics: refers to women who have reached the age of 15. Fu, originally refers to the ancient hair clasp. Generally, after 15 years old, ancient women rolled up their hair and covered it with a hair clasp, indicating that they had reached adulthood.

10. Bundle hair: male 15 years old. In ancient times, when a boy became a child, his hair was tied into a bun because he thought it was synonymous with children. Dai Fu Bao: "Let's go to college, learn great arts and complete the festival."

1 1. Broken melon: refers to a 16-year-old woman. In the old days, scholars took the word "melon" as 2008, which was called sixteen years old and was mostly used by women.

12. Weak crown: refers to a twenty-year-old man. In ancient times, men were crowned at the age of 20 to show their manhood, also known as crowning.

13. Standing: 30 years old. "The Analects of Confucius for Politics": "Stand at thirty." Later, he called 30 the year of "standing".

14. No doubt: 40 years old. "The Analects of Confucius for Politics": "Forty without confusion." Later used as a 40-year-old agent.

15. know life: 50. "The Analects of Confucius for Politics": "You know your destiny at fifty." It means that you don't know your destiny until you are 50. Later generations took "know life" as the nickname of fifty years old.

16. Ershun: 60 years old. It comes from the reincarnation of heavenly stems and earthly branches. There are ten kinds of heavenly stems and twelve kinds of earthly branches. A reincarnation is exactly sixty years, so it means sixty years old.