A 95-year-old man can be called an octogenarian. In ancient times, eighty or ninety years old meant eighty or ninety years old and ninety-five years old. It can also be called an octogenarian. China's vocabulary is to pay tribute to the octogenarian, because there are few elderly people in this age group.

In ancient China, people attached great importance to addressing. Babies are generally called "swaddling clothes", which mostly refer to children less than one year old.

Childhood refers to two or three-year-old children, older children, three or four-year-old to eight or nine-year-old children, called crying, because in ancient times, underage children all had drooping hair.

Ten-year-old children are called "kindergarten students" Children aged eight or nine to thirteen or fourteen are called "total horns". After the age of thirteen or fourteen, the names of boys and girls began to be different. Thirteen-year-old girl is called cardamom, thirteen to fifteen-year-old boy is called dancing spoon, and fifteen-year-old woman is called lotus.

Older elders have different appellations. "Longevity year" generally refers to centenarians, while "seventy years old" refers to people around 70 years old. In addition to "seventy years old", seventy years old is also the year of trailer, the year of holding the country and the year of sincerity.