when a girl is sixteen(pò guā zhī nián)

when a girl is sixteen

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ò Gu ā zh ī Ni á n, which means that the character Gua can be divided into two eight characters, and the two eight characters add up to 16, so the old poetry called the woman's 16-year-old "the year of Gua". From untitled.

The origin of Idioms

Lu You's Untitled poem in Song Dynasty: "Jasper didn't break the melon at that time, she learned to sing and dance and entered the Hou family."

Analysis of Idioms

The age of broken melon

Idiom usage

A woman is 16 years old. Example: in Wei Gao, a friend of Yunxi, written by fan Wu of Tang Dynasty, it is said that Yu Xiao is better than Lu Ba Zuo of Dongchuan to send off a singer Yuan Mei's Sui Yuan Shi Hua in Qing Dynasty: "ancient Yuefu:" when Jasper broke the melon. " Or understand that the beginning of the moon, such as melon break will see red tide, not also. Cover will melon vertical and horizontal broken, into two "eight" word, for 16-year-old solution also. Duan Chengshi has a poem that says, "you are still pitying for the smallest melon day." In Li qunyu's poem, "the year of Gua is the first year for Biyu." This is the proof. " Zhai Hao's popular edition women: "Xie you's Ci of Song Dynasty:" broken melon is young, waist is small. ". According to the custom, a woman's broken body is regarded as a broken melon. The character "Gua" is broken into two or eight characters. It is said that the character "Gua" is 86 years old "Huajian Ji" and Ning's two songs of he Manzi: "it's just the year of breaking melon that people are used to love. Peach and plum spirit, parrot tongue, can spend a good night. But love blue Luo skirt, envy him long bundle slender waist

Chinese PinYin : pò guā zhī nián