In life, we will inevitably learn Xi ancient poetry and come into contact with ancient music, and naturally many ancient words will rise. The description of our life is infants, teenagers, young and middle-aged people, and old age in our modern terms, and such a life is summed up. In the words of ancient times, it is swaddling, childhood, Shao year, yellow mouth, the year of dancing spoons, the year of dancing elephants, weak crowns, and standing, not confused, knowing the destiny of heaven, flower nails, ancient rarity, etc., to complete a person's life. So how do you describe the adolescent girl? There are the years of golden hairpins, there are cardamom years, and there are twenty-eight flowers.
What we are going to talk about today is the adjective cardamom years, why did the ancients use "cardamom" to describe girls? Let's take a look! Cardamom years refer to 13 or 14-year-old girls, girls at this time have the protection of their parents and the protection of teachers and friends, ignorance and vividness are the best interpretation of this age. So what is the origin of calling the girls of this period cardamom? Let's take a look at the real thing.
In fact, cardamom is a plant that is half-open and half-hidden, and it looks like it is in a state of growing and not growing. Like a dawn full of vitality and hope for the future, this is the same as a girl in this period, ignorant of the future, but full of hope, imagining what she will be like in the future. So who is so talented that he imagined to use cardamom to describe the girls of this period?
He is the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu. The word was used because he accidentally saw a 1314-year-old girl playing by the river during an outing, and she looked very smart, and Du Mu used the word cardamom to describe this girl in a poetic mood. In fact, there were many beautiful girls on the street at that time, but none of them had the agility of this girl at this time.
Naturally, with the use of the word cardamom, more and more people use it, and over time, cardamom is used to describe the little girl in this period. Maybe many times we see a scene that does not associate it with people, but the poets of ancient times can combine this usage so mysteriously, leaving us with so many popular verses! What do you think? There are other interesting and different opinions to share with the editor!