It means that when choosing a spouse, I would rather choose a man one or two years younger than myself than a woman one hour older than myself. To understand this sentence, we need to put it in a specific background of the times. At first, we were a matriarchal society. At that time, people only knew mom, not dad.

At that time, children also took their mother's surname, and the blood relationship of a family was completely maintained by the mother. However, compared with men, women are still inferior to men in physical strength. Therefore, in the Neolithic Age five or six thousand years ago, men gradually improved their status because of their great contributions to social production and various jobs.

The matriarchal clan began to change into a patriarchal society, and many paternal families came into being. The famous Longshan culture and Dawenkou culture are both representatives of patriarchal society. Probably from this time on, people gradually realized that women are a vulnerable group in society and men are more powerful.

So many people think that women need the protection of men, and women should also rely on men. The slave society and feudal society gradually formed in later generations are all such social phenomena. The emperors in feudal society were all men, and the only female emperor was Wu Zetian, which was criticized by many people.

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As a kind of idioms, common sayings refer to well-established, widely circulated and concise sentences. Broadly speaking, proverbs include proverbs, two-part allegorical sayings, idioms and commonly used oral idioms, but they do not include idioms in dialects, proverbs and written languages, nor do they include famous sayings and epigrams in famous works.

In a narrow sense, proverbs are one of the genres with their own characteristics. They are different from proverbs and two-part allegorical sayings, but there are also some proverbs in between. Proverbs come from a wide range of sources, including folk oral creations, famous poems, aphorisms and historical allusions.