How old can an aunt scream?
The age of ancient people is sometimes not expressed by numbers, not by telling someone's age or age directly, but by an age-related title instead. Tiáo is a child between the ages of three or four and eight or nine (Tiá o, short hair hanging from the head of an ancient child).
The total angle is a teenager between the ages of eight or nine and thirteen or fourteen (ancient children divided their hair into left and right halves and tied it in a knot at the top of their heads, which is shaped like two horns, so it is called "total angle").
Source of appellation:
In the process of reading ancient prose, we often come across some words expressing age appellation, such as "weak crown" and "fatigue". Students are often confused about this.
In fact, there are many words like this, which we must know in the process of reading ancient Chinese. The ancient age appellation came from different sources, most of them were named according to the physiological characteristics of different ages, but some of them followed the words of their predecessors and became fixed names.
Of all age appellation, the title "ninety" is the most interesting. Or "mackerel back", mackerel is a kind of fish, and the stripes on its back are like the wrinkled skin of an old man. In old age, senile spots appear on the skin, such as the skin of frozen pears, so it is also called "frozen pears".
There are also names based on physiological characteristics, for example, people are called "babies" at birth because they need to be held on their chests to feed them. Babies can pass fake, fake breasts. A baby is a child held on his chest.
Seven-year-old is not only called "mourning", but also called "losing teeth", so it is called because it is the period of changing teeth. Fifteen-year-old called "child", "there is no vegetation on the mountain." Ancient 16 years old adult, 15 years old men were not crowned, women were not crowned. Metaphor is used here.