The 800-word commentary on current affairs is as follows:
Everyone has their own name, but they are all very different. Some of these names contain beautiful meanings, and some express the hope and infinite care of the elders. My name is no exception. My mother told me that she had started to think of names for me when I was still in her belly. Although she thought of many names, the last one was not used.
I asked my mother what was going on? She said that my grandparents felt that the name they gave me at first had a bad meaning, so they changed my name when applying for the birth certificate, and it was changed to a two-letter name. My mother said that a two-letter name is easy to relate to. Someone else had the same name and insisted on changing it, so the family decided to rename me after discussion.
My mother calculated my birth date and told others that my five elements lacked wood and fire. When naming me, she looked up many characters related to wood and fire. There are two characters for "wood" in the word "dream". The word "dream" is also chosen in the hope that my dreams will come true through my own efforts on the road of growth.
When many people hear my name, they always think that the Yan in my name is the female Kaiyan. I use this word Yan because it is composed of two fires, and we are all descendants of the Yanhuang people. My name is Wang Mengyan. That's where it comes from. I like my name very much because it has few strokes and is very easy to write, especially the character "王" in my last name.
China’s surname culture has a long history, and each surname contains its own unique and rich cultural connotation. After my mother took me to look up some relevant information, I learned that the surname Wang was mainly derived from the surname Ji, and its ancestor Ji Jin was a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. The Wang surname is also a common surname in China today, with a population of nearly 100 million, accounting for about half of the country's Han population.
I took a look. Although there are not many people in our class, the number of people with the surname Wang is indeed the largest. Besides me, there are Wang Yubo and Wang Ziqian. This is the evolution process of the word "王" from ancient times to the present. The oracle bone inscription with the character "王" is in the shape of an axe. The axe is a ritual weapon that symbolizes the authority of the king. Therefore, in ancient times, the character "王" was the title of a country's monarch. Nowadays, in addition to being a surname, the character "王" also means a monarch or a leader.
Next, let’s talk about the word “dream” in my name. Its oracle bones are like a person lying on a bed sleeping, and the meaning of "dream" refers to the scene activities caused by various stimuli inside and outside the body or the external stimuli remaining in the brain during sleep. There are several famous ones in history. There are idioms and allusions about dreams, such as Huangliang Yimeng, Nanke Yimeng, and finally the word "flame" in my name.
The word Yan in Shen Guwen is a yellow character. From a fire, it is originally a flame rising, just like a burning flame. When the flame burns, it will generate heat, so the word Yan will lead to electricity. In order to understand the meaning of heat, it uses Qiantian to express hot weather. For example, in our current sutra hall, it is said that the sun is scorching hot in the real sky. The "fire" here means the scorching degree of the sun's rays. This is the story of my name.