The Han people have surnames, such as Zhao, Qian, Sun, and Li. Everyone knows the surnames of hundreds of families. Tibetans have no surnames and usually use four characters to make a name: Tashi Dorje, Tsering Wangdui, etc.
The popularity of Buddhism has affected the names of Tibetan people. Many people’s names have strong religious colors, such as:
Danba - meaning Buddhism;
Jiangyang means wonderful sounds;
Gelai means auspiciousness;
Duoji means Vajra;
Qunpeiyi The meaning of promoting law or teaching.
The names given by Tibetan people all have certain meanings and express their own thoughts and feelings, which can be said to be rich and colorful.
1. Use natural objects as your name, such as:
Dawa means the moon; Nima means the sun; Pema means lotus; plum means flower. .
2. Name the child after the day he was born, such as:
Lang Gang - the 30th day; Ci Song - the third day of the lunar month;
The second is the eighth day of the first lunar month; the second is the first day of the first lunar month.
3. There are also names for children based on the day of the week, such as:
Nima - Sunday (also known as "日", "日"), Dawa - Monday (Also known as the moon), "month" solution>, Mima - Tuesday, Laba - Wednesday, Pubu - Thursday, Basang - Friday (also known as "Venus" solution), Pianba - Saturday .
In order to express their feelings, some parents name their children "Cang Mu Jue" (which means termination) if they think they have too many children. 〉, "Qionda" (meaning the smallest). If parents want to have a boy, they name their newborn daughter "Buchi" (meaning to bring up a boy). In order to make their children live longer, parents name their children "Tsering"
Tibetan names are due to the above reasons, so there are many identical names, such as: "Tsering", "Damba", "Basang", etc., people make some distinctions in front of the name.
One is to add big, medium and small before the name, such as big basang, middle basang, Xiaopingcuo.
One is to add place names to the names of people from different places, such as "Duiqiong" and "Yadong" in Duiqiongwangdui and Yadongwangdui. It is a place name. Another example is "Renbu" and "Duilong" in Renbu Duoji and Duilong Duoji.
One way is to use the physical characteristics of the person at the end of the name to distinguish them. p>
Gelsang Suoque, Gesang the kidnapper, Tashi Basa, Mazi Tashi; Danba Guochin, Datou Danba, Dorji Xiaguo, Dorji the blind.
The other is to use occupation to distinguish people's names, such as:
Maqin Cidan - cook Cidan;
Xingsuo Qiangba - carpenter Qiangba. /p>
There are also distinctions based on gender and age. For example, for the same "Dawa", the male is called "Pudawa" and the female is called "Pumudawa"; another example is that both adults and children are called "Pudawa". Tashi, so to distinguish between old and young, it can be called "Bo Tashi" (Abba Tashi), "Puzhaxi" (child Tashi>; "Toad Yangjin" (Old Lady Yangjin), "Pumu Yangjin" "Girl Yang Jin".
After liberation, with the changes in people's political life, there were also some new contents when naming names, such as:
Jinzhu - Liberation, Dama - Red Flag , Dejimei Duo - a happy flower.
In places such as Sichuan, Qinghai, Gannan and Qamdo in Tibet, due to the influence of Han names on Tibetan-Chinese marriages, names with Han surnames and Tibetan names appeared, such as: Zhang Wangdui, Li Ci Jia, Chen Gongbu, Zhao Renzeng.
Most Tibetan names are used by both men and women, such as: Dawa, Nyima, Basang, Tashi, Gesang, etc.; but some are strictly distinguished and are only used for women. Such as: Wangmu, Zhuoma, Zhuoga, Yangjin, Sangmu, Quzhen, Lazhen, Lamu, Cang(mu)jue, etc.