人的年龄素有年、岁、龄之称,这些称谓的源流颇有歧义。清顾炎武说:“天之行谓之岁,……人之行谓之年。”他还认为人们称年龄为“岁”始于《史记·秦始皇本纪》“日年十三岁”(《日知录·岁》)。其实此说并不准确。首先就“天”的运行而言,《尔雅·释天》写道:“夏曰岁,商曰祀,周曰年,唐虞曰载。”疏曰:“年者,禾熟之名,每岁一熟,故以为岁名。”由此可见,称岁为年 The age of people is known as the year, age, age, the origin of these titles is quite ambiguous. Qing Gu said: “The age of the line that the so-called ... ... people's line of thought that year.” “He also believes that people called the age of” age “began in” Shi Ji Qin Shi Huang Ji Ji “year thirteen Years old ”(“ Nikkatan ”). In fact, this is not accurate. First of all, as far as the operation of “Tian” is concerned, “Er Ya Shi Tian” wrote: “Xia said the age, the business said Si, Zhou said years, Tang Yu said contained. , Cooked cooked in the name of a year-old cooked, so that the age. ”Thus, said the year-old