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What are the ancient appellations from small to large?
Collection of ancient appellations

Baby: less than one year old.

Child: Two to three years old.

At first, the girl was seven years old.

First year: the boy is eight years old. Description: According to the physiological condition, boys are eight years old and girls are seven years old. They can change teeth, take off deciduous teeth and grow permanent teeth. This is called "childhood year", "childhood year" or "childhood year".

General angle: the general term for childhood.

The year of hanging steamed buns: refers to children. In ancient times, children's hair drooped, which extended to minors. )

Yellow button: under ten years old.

Kindergarten: ten years old. (The Book of Rites? 6? 1 Qu Lishang: "Ten years of life, learning at a young age." Because there were no punctuation marks in ancient Chinese characters, people intercepted the word "kindergarten" as a proxy for ten years old. )

Chai Jin Year: The girl is twelve years old.

Cardamom: The woman is thirteen years old.

Chi Xue: Fifteen. (The Analects of Confucius: Confucius said, "Nine times out of ten, I am determined to learn ...")

There is also logistics: the woman is fifteen years old. (The Book of Rites? 6? 1 internal rules ":"Women have five years in ten years. " )

Jasper's youth broke the melon: the woman was sixteen. (In the old days, scholars took the word "melon" as 2008, which was called sixteen years old, and was mostly used by women. )

Weak crown: twenty years old. (The Book of Rites? 6? 1 Qu Lishang: "Twenty is the weak crown." )

Tao: Female, twenty years old.

Flowers in love: female 24 years old.

Standing: thirty years old.

There is no doubt: forty years old.

Destiny: fifty years old. (The Analects of Confucius: Confucius said: "I am determined to learn five out of ten, stand at thirty, not be confused at forty, know my destiny at fifty, listen to my ears at sixty, and do what I want at seventy, without exceeding the moment." ")

The year of distinguishing right from wrong: fifty years old. ("Huainanzi"? 6? 1 former Tao Xun: "Apollo is fifty years old, not forty-nine years old. "It is said that there was a Apollo in the Spring and Autumn Period who often reflected on himself. At the age of 50, he knew the mistakes of the previous 49 years, so later generations called him fifty with "knowing right and wrong". )

Listening to flowers: 60 years old. Since ancient times, heavenly stems and earthly branches has been used in our country to date each other intricately, which can form sixty pairs of branches, so it is called "sixty branches" or "sixty flowers", so sixty years old is also called "the year of sixty flowers". )

Gu Xi: Seventy years old. (Du Fu's "Two Poems of Qujiang": "A total of wine and debt, life is seventy years old." )

People in their eighties and nineties. (The Book of Rites? 6? 1 Quli: "890 Yue Yao." According to this explanation, people use the word "eighty or ninety years old" to refer to people who are eighty or ninety years old. )

Yi: centenarians. (The Book of Rites? 6? 1 Qu Li: "A hundred years is a long time." It means that life lasts for a hundred years, so it is called "the year of life". Chen Yuan Hao explained: "Life is a hundred years, so it is a period; I am embarrassed that everything I eat and drink is moving. " )