Did ancient people report their age in nominal or full years? Is "Nian 28" sixteen or sixteen in name only?

Dummy age is a way of remembering age in ancient China.

At that time, there was no such thing as wasting one's life.

People have been using it ever since. In most cases, it is over one year old, so it is called nominal age.

At present, one year old is an internationally accepted age calculation method.

So "year 28" is a nominal age of sixteen.