seventy years of age

seventy years of age

The Chinese idiom, G ǔ x ī zh ī Ni á n, refers to the age of 70. From two songs of Qujiang.

Idiom explanation

Thin: less.

The origin of Idioms

In Tang Dynasty, Du Fu's twelve poems in Caotang Shijian and two poems in Qujiang: "wine debt is common everywhere, life is rare since ancient times."

Idiom usage

A man is 70 years old. Seventy is a rare thing in life. 2. The master still insists on swimming and boxing. He looks like a man in his fifties. Ming Dynasty · Feng Menglong's xingshihengyan · Taoist Li walks alone in Yunmen