I'm seriously questioning the reliability of fans constantly citing Jing Yuan being the youngest out of the Quintent. (Am reading this and had to stop like five sentences in because of the huge leaps of logic that was happening.)
To be fair, I might be missing some kind of obvious clue, but everything I've seen in terms of "analyzing" the age is basically guess work with very little substantive evidence.
( Holy shit, this got long... )
Edit to add: Also, I would like to point out that it is erroneous to use modern Chinese to interpret some of the descriptions in HSR because so much of the language is pulling on the original Classical Chinese meanings.
In classical Chinese (up to the last dynasty, which ended in 1911), 少年 can refer to people as old as 30-35 years old.
And even if I give you the modern Chinese interpretation, according to modern standards, 少年 refers to anyone between the age of 12-17. So...the point is Jing Yuan of Blade's memory probably looked more like:
...and less like 