How did the ancients calculate the false age fortune-telling?

What's the difference between "nominal age" and "one year old"? Which one should I answer?

How old can a person celebrate his birthday? The answer is: you have to be over 60 years old to qualify for a birthday, and according to the customs and habits in some areas, there is also a stress on "doing nine but not ten". For example, if a person wants to celebrate his 60th birthday, he should hold a birthday party at the age of 59, instead of just celebrating his 60th birthday. He must celebrate his birthday one year in advance, which is called "doing nine without doing ten".

In fact, this involves an age problem, that is, the problem of "nominal age" and "one year old". "Nine generations and ten generations" means living in vain. Because the imaginary age of 50 years old and 9 years old is 60 years old, you can celebrate your 60th birthday at 59 years old.

This is not just a birthday celebration. In daily life, if someone asks another person's age, he can have two answers, one is nominal age and the other is one year old. What's the difference between this nominal age and one year old? When someone asks you your age, which one should you answer?

Qi Baishi, a master of modern art in China, was born in June 1864 and died in September 1957. According to this calculation, Qi Baishi lived to be 93 years old. In recent years, Qi Baishi's paintings and calligraphy works are widely sought after in the world art auction market, and there are often paintings that have sold for over 100 million yuan.

Many friends who care about calligraphy and painting may know that many of Qi Baishi's paintings are from that era. However, in his later years, he even wrote that he was 94, 95, 96 or even 97.

At the same time, in Qi Baishi's earlier works, there are also cases where the age of the inscription does not match the actual age. For example, there is a work titled "Yi You is 85 years old".

The yiyou year here means 1945. According to the fact that Qi Baishi was born in 1864, he should be 8 1 year old. Why was he four years older than his actual age when he signed the painting? This involves the problem of "nominal age" in traditional customs.

According to tradition, the ancients used to calculate their age by imaginary age. What is a nominal age? A nominal age means that you are one year old when you are born, and you will grow one year later. As the saying goes, "I was born one year old, and the new year is one year old." Note that "every year" here does not mean a year, but every New Year's Eve (every year), you will grow by one year.

In order to clarify the concept of nominal age, let's look at the example of Qi Baishi. Qi Baishi was born in 1864 65438+ October, which is the Gregorian calendar. This year, 65438+1October 26th is the Lunar New Year's Eve, and 65438+1October 27th is the first day of the New Year. Therefore, although Qi Baishi was born in 1864 65438+ 10, he was born in 65438.

In other words, according to tradition, Qi Baishi can be said to be two years older than his real age. But many of Qi Baishi's paintings are four years older. What happened? Here's a little story.

Qi Baishi was superstitious in his later years. One year, when he was telling fortune, his husband said that he had a disaster when he was 75 years old, so he gave him an idea to call himself 77 when he was 75 years old, so that he could cross the sea to solve the problem.

Since the age of 75, Qi Baishi has quietly increased by 2 years. In addition, the nominal age itself is two years older than his real age. Therefore, when Qi Baishi signed his works in his later years, he often appeared to be four years older than his real age.

The antonym of nominal age is "one year old". People are born at the age of zero, and each birthday increases by one year. Let's take Qi Baishi as an example. He was born in 1 864 65438+1 October1.From1874 65438+1October1,he is 10 years old.

One year old is a person's actual age; Nominally older than one year old 1 to two years old. If someone asks you how old you are, do you answer by nominal age or one year old?

In informal situations, you can say that you are nominal or over one year old. If you fill in a legal document or you want to answer in a legal format, you must answer according to your actual age. At the same time, calculating age by one year old is also an internationally accepted way to calculate age.