Just two years ago, the World Health Organization adjusted the age division. The upper age limit for youth has been greatly extended, and middle age starts at 45. This, of course, can meet the psychological needs of a considerable number of middle-aged people, so that a strong basis can be obtained from the outside to show that they are still young people. If a person's age stage and physiological state can indeed be regulated by a certain document of an authoritative organization, then it is really human happiness, so that we will not age and die.
Is 35 years old considered middle-aged? According to the standards of the World Health Organization, it is certainly not middle-aged, but young. It's just that if the depth of the discussion only ends here, then it will at most give people a little psychological comfort and satisfaction, and there is really not much discussion value. Let's be more practical. From the perspective of real life, let's see if 35 years old is considered middle-aged?
The power of traditional concepts and cultural background: standing at 30, entering middle age.
The most common phrase spoken by Chinese people is "Thirty-year-old". Usually we do regard 30 as the starting point of middle age. For a long period of time, most Chinese will start a family and start a business before the age of 30, which is an important sign of getting rid of youthfulness and entering the real adult stage. To some extent, this iconic meaning even exceeds the number of "30 years old" itself.
So far in some places in China, there is still the custom of giving New Year's money during the New Year. Those who collect depressive money are not necessarily young children, including unmarried adult men and women. However, men and women who are not married may still receive lucky money even if they are over 30 years old. The cultural subtext is "you are still a child, not an adult", and of course it is not a middle-aged person. However, this cultural psychology will also have an upper limit. Generally speaking, if you are over 40 and unmarried, you will still be regarded as middle-aged. Of course, changes in the world and the progress of the times are slowly changing this collective psychological perception.
With the improvement of living conditions, increased health awareness, and the popularization of fitness culture, more and more Chinese people still look like young people between the ages of 30 and 40. So in terms of appearance alone, it is a bit far-fetched to say that 30 is middle age. However, our culture and collective psychology do believe that 30-year-olds are generally middle-aged.
Discussion: There is an interesting psychological phenomenon. When we are young people in our teens and twenties, we take people in their 30s as middle-aged people for granted. But when we stepped into the ranks of thirty-year-olds by ourselves, we desperately classified ourselves as young people in our hearts. "Classify others as middle-aged and classify yourself as youth." Although this psychological tendency is somewhat selfish, it is regarded as a normal state of mind in psychological research, and psychoanalytic theory researchers call it a normal state of mind. "Envy".
Young appearance is the first psychological watershed for age division.
Compared with the abstract concept of traditional cultural background, the appearance of each person is really the first psychological watershed in age division. The aging of a person is first intuitively reflected in his appearance, and the aging rhythm of most people is basically the same, so we can judge from the first sight of a stranger that this person is young, middle-aged, or old. If you are 35 years old, but old-fashioned, with many wrinkles, and a little faintly Huafa, it would not be wrong to treat you as middle-aged without knowing your age. On the contrary, if the skin is firm, the face is thin, and the body is exquisite, the first impression is that young people are well deserved, at least several roads away from most of their peers.
A joke that is often ridiculed among public figures is that Lin Zhiying and Guo Degang have a contrasting sense of age. In fact, Guo Degang is only one year older than Lin Zhiying, but Lin Zhiying is still young in appearance, and Guo Degang is a standard middle-aged. Guo Degang teased Lin Zhiying and said, no matter how old you are, we will be crazy. The speaker has no intention, the listener has the heart, but in our hearts we want to live as Lin Zhiying and make others go crazy!
A small conclusion is that if you stand at the intersection of your 35-year-old life, but don’t want to be considered middle-aged by others, then the one thing you should do well is to work hardMaintain youthful appearance and graceful figure!
Good physical fitness is the essential difference between youth and aging.
However, appearance is only an appearance, or it is only an external reflection of a person's aging degree. The true aging lies in the lack of physical strength and the decline in health, while the true youth lies in the maintenance of physical fitness. Physical fitness is reflected in many aspects such as strength, speed, endurance, coordination, flexibility, and agility. So 35-year-olds, if you want to look younger, don't step into the pit of "greasy middle-aged" too early. Long-term exercise is the most important way. There is no one. Staying young in physical stamina should be at least better than ordinary peers in order to be qualified to say that you are still a young person at the age of 35. In short, keep exercising!
The following are two fitness exercise standards cited by Yuxingjun. If you want to make yourself younger, please follow the standards of young people:
Action 1: Push-ups. Male push-up standard (quoted from the "Comprehensive Fitness Guide" of the State Sports General Administration). This action is used to reflect the strength of the male upper limbs, shoulder and back muscles and the ability to continue working.
Action 2: Pull-ups. can do a few pull-ups, reflecting the strength and endurance of the upper limbs and back muscles. This action is quite difficult for people who don't usually exercise, but because of its difficulty, it precisely reflects whether the strength and endurance level of these force-generating parts of the tester has degraded or still maintains the level of youth. The following test standards are quoted from the National Physical Fitness Association (NSCA) Physical Fitness Test and Evaluation Guidelines and the "National Student Physical Health Standards 2014 Revised Edition" promulgated by the Ministry of Education of China.
U.S. college-age population pull-ups to exhaustion ability assessment standard
More than 15 is very good. 12 to 14 are good. 8 to 11 medium. 5 to 7 are ok. 0 to 4 differences.
Chinese male college students pull-up standard
College third and fourth grade boys standard: 11 to 15 years pass, 16 to 17 good, 18 to 20 excellent.
Here is just an example of two fitness exercise test standards, allowing middle-aged people to self-assess their physical state. If you want to stay young, you should perform better in many sports (such as long-distance running), at least significantly ahead of most of your peers.
Young mentality needs a young body to confirm!
Do you often hear the saying: Age is not important, it is just a number, and a young mentality is more important. For middle-aged people who hold this view, if there is no guarantee of a healthy body, it is no different from the spiritual victory of Ah Q. "My family used to be much richer than you", put it here, it becomes "My mentality is much younger than you"!
If we only have a young mentality without a healthy and young body, will middle-aged people be young? It is hard to imagine that a 35-year-old who is suffering from illness will be regarded as a young man because of his youthful mentality. A young mentality is never something that can exist in isolation from the health of the body!
In fact, long-term exercise will actively shape people's mentality, appearance and body shape, making people more beautiful and healthier, and of course making people look younger.
As discussed, you may have discovered that apart from the first factor, "cultural background", we cannot control it. Mentality, appearance, and good physical fitness are all controllable. These are the more important criteria for judging whether a person is young. Good physical fitness is the most basic and key. You should know the importance of exercise, right?
What's interesting is that in Chinese myths and legends, all the gods are like cranes with beautiful faces and immortality. For example, the frequently mentioned "Ma Gu XianThe Magu in "Shou", the ancient book records that she has always been eighteen or nineteen years old, and "has seen Donghai three times become a mulberry field without changing her face". A large number of practitioners and mythical figures recorded in "The Legend of Gods" , Most of them have lived for hundreds of years and their appearance is still the same. The so-called practitioners, cultivate the heart first, and the appearance is born from the heart. This may be another secret path to maintain youth.
Former US President Lincoln There is a famous saying that after the age of forty, you should be responsible for your appearance. In fact, when you are young, we will begin to be responsible for our appearance. Otherwise, by the age of 35, you are probably already in the eyes of others. "Greasy middle-aged", there is no room for differentiation!
