In ancient times, there were many names for friends, including: best friend, old friend, family friend, awkward friend, forgotten friend, forgotten friend, eternal friend and so on.

The specific meanings of the ancient people's address to friends are as follows:

1. Best friend: refers to the friend with the deepest friendship;

2. Old friends: refers to friends who have had profound friendship;

3. Family friends: generally speaking, there are generations of friendship between two families or two surnames;

4. A friend who is embarrassed is a friend who can experience life and death or suffering together;

5. Forgetting the turn of the year: it means that friends can cross the age and generational differences. For example, the friendship between ancient Li Bai and He Zhizhang belongs to the turn of the year;

6. Forgotten friends: refers to those who are informal and become friends regardless of you and me;

7. A best friend who never turns his back: refers to those friends who are congenial, pure in feelings and deep in friendship.

All of the above are good friends who describe like-minded and have the same interests, and more tend to be called friends.

Extended information:

The ancients also called friends who were bad or "non-friends", and the common names are: friends of wine and meat, friends of the market and friends of evil friends.

1. The friendship between wine and meat refers to those friends who often eat, drink and have fun together.

2. The turn of the street refers to making friends with people who do business, and later it also refers to friends in business, because many people have the view that businessmen value profits and forget righteousness, which is also called the turn of the dog;

3. Compatriots generally refer to friends who often eat, drink and have fun together and do nothing, and are compared to friends who can't be close friends.

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