What does it mean to stand at thirty, not be confused at forty, and know your destiny at fifty?

Standing at the age of 30-people should determine their life goals and development direction at the age of 30.

Don't be confused at forty-when people reach forty, there is nothing to worry about and doubt.

At fifty, I know how to live-at fifty, I have to accept my fate. I can't resist it.

Sixty flowers-60 in the lunar calendar, it's already reincarnation, and it's time to recognize old age.

Seventy years old-seventy years old is already a bad old man, and life is coming to an end.

Of course, this is to remind people that life is short and encourage people to seize the precious time in life according to the longevity and viewpoint of the ancients.

Ancient appellation

In the process of learning ancient prose, we often encounter some words that express age appellation, such as "weak crown" and "hardship". Students are often confused about this. In fact, there are many words like this, which we must know in the process of learning ancient Chinese. Age appellation in ancient times came from different sources, most of which were named according to the physiological characteristics of different ages, but some of them were inherited from predecessors.

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, like the skin of a frozen pear, so it is also called "frozen pear".

There are also names based on physiological characteristics. For example, when a person is born, he is called "baby" because he needs to hold it on his chest to feed. Babies can be taken off with fake ones, and fake breasts are also called "mourning". Seven years old, also known as "tooth destruction", so it is called this name.

In addition, we often say "the year of establishment", "the year of no doubt" and "the year of know life" come from the records in The Analects of Confucius: "Confucius said: five out of ten are determined to learn, thirty are determined to stand, forty are not confused, fifty know the destiny, sixty are obedient, and seventy is not far from one's own desires."

The Book of Rites compiled by Dai Sheng, a Han Chinese, said: "Life is ten years old, twenty years old, thirty years old, forty years old, fifty years old, sixty years old, seventy years old, eighty or ninety years old, and a period of one hundred years. "There is also a saying that a year of guilt does not increase a person's body. However, later generations often put ".

China also has a tradition of recording the number of years of cadres and party branches. Sixty years is a round, so there is a saying that 60 years is 60 years. Du Fu said in a poem, "Life is rare for 70 or 20 years." Therefore, seventy has another nickname of "seventy years old".

Of course, in ancient times, there were more than these titles, and many of them were scattered in various ancient books, which were rarely used but not handed down. The above, because of its high frequency and strong vitality, is used by future generations. Some of them have also entered our daily communication, such as "Standing at 30". For example, from the words "baby" and "child", we can't see the difference between history and today.

And:

Baby: less than one year old. Child: Two to three years old. Child: Eight years old.

Overall perspective: childhood. Hanging bun year: refers to children. Huang Kou: Under ten years old.

Kindergarten: ten years old. Dance spoon year: thirteen to fifteen years old. Chi Xue: fifteen years old.

The year of dancing elephants: fifteen to twenty years old. Weak crown: twenty years old. Standing age: thirty.

The age of no doubt: forty years old. The year of knowing destiny and knowing right and wrong: fifty years old. The year of hearing: sixty years old.

Seventy years old: seventy years old. Age of the staff: eighty years old. People in their eighties and nineties.

Qi Yi: A centenarian. At first, the girl was seven years old. In Chai Jin, the girl was twelve years old.

Age of cardamom: thirteen years old for women and fifteen years old for women. Jasper age: female, 16 years old.

Tao: Female, 20 years old. Playboy: female, 24 years old. A beautiful year: getting married.