Throughout the ages, people's exploration of life has never stopped. Confucius and Mencius lived to be seventy-three and eighty-four years old respectively, so there is a folk proverb: "Seventy-three eighty-four, the ghost king was uninvited." This means that ordinary people are satisfied when they live to the age of saints. Liu Bei may be more pessimistic. He said, "People over 50 will not die." . In other words, a person who dies after the age of 50 is not dead.

With the progress of society, the living standard and medical level are also constantly improving. The average life expectancy of people in China is also rising. According to relevant data, the average life expectancy of China people has reached 77 years. From the perspective of gender, women are higher, with an average of 79.43 years old. Men are even lower, with an average age of 73.64 years. So someone raised a question, how old is a person? Yes, at what age are people considered "old people"? That's a real problem.

Some units say there is a "35-year-old crisis". In other words, if you are a working "little white" and don't get a promotion before the age of 35, your prospects will be dim and you may even be fired. In other words, in such a unit, 35 years old is an old man. If you are a "freelancer", go to the company to apply, and people over 35 basically don't want it. Recently, a company recruited employees, saying that people over the age of 30 would not consider recruiting unless they were cleaning. In other words, in this company, 30 years old is an "old man".

About how old you can retire, 70 years old is really not old. In the future, the retirement age of both men and women will be over 65 years old, and it will be 70 years old after five years of retirement. Is this old? If you are not old, you can still find another job! In the eyes of some health experts and individual doctors, people over 50 are old people. Need regular physical examination, need to take antihypertensive drugs and hypoglycemic drugs on time, need to take aspirin and statins, need to take health care products, need to control their emotions, need to arrange their daily life reasonably ..... 70 years old, is already twilight. Demographically, people over 70 don't seem to be old. According to the prophet, the average life expectancy of China people has risen to over 80 years, which will be realized in a few years. In this sense, people are really embarrassed to say that they are old when they are 70 years old. Whether it's a man or a woman, if you don't reach the average level, you're old. You're not out of your mind!

In short, it is still a question whether a 70-year-old person is "old". From the perspective of real life, the answer is not fixed.