In the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, the successor of Chu was called Li Linggui, and in the Xuanzong period of the Tang Dynasty, there was a singer named Li Guinian, and the poet Du Fu also wrote a poem "on meeting li guinian down the river" for him. Bai Juyi has a nickname "A Gui", which is very popular with Bai Juyi. He wrote in "Getting a Turtle": "I was six years old, and the word is A Gui."
This psychological change reflects the status and values of turtles in different times in the evolution of folk customs, from which we can see the relationship between naming words and folk customs. The traditional folk customs of naming names are various:
Festival law names flowers according to the festivals when children are born. Such as Chun Shen, Xia Yu, Yan Qiu, Xiao Dong, Lan Zhen, Ju Xiang, laurel, Xuemei and so on. Common in women.
The names of places are Lianshen (Shanghai), Wang Yugen (Chongqing), Lin Zheguang (Zhejiang), Yuan Jin (Shanxi) and Huang Yunsheng (Yunnan). If Lao She's eldest daughter was born in Jinan, she was named "Shuji". There are also people who take a word from their ancestral home and place of birth and become famous. For example, Zhang Shaoqing, whose ancestral home is Shaoxing, Zhejiang, was born in Chongqing, mainly in commemoration.
Panzifa's parents are eager to give birth to baby girls, so they will use interesting names such as Gendi, Lingdi, Zhaodi and Pandi when naming their daughters.
The couple who adopt a child have no children under their knees, and adopt a child from a foreign country or a foreign surname. In the names of such children, there is often a word "Lai", such as Laibao, Laijiao, Laigen and Laifa.
Animal Law According to the elderly, pigs, dogs, cattle, sheep and other livestock are jian animals. Because they are jian animals, they are not noticed by evil spirits, so it is easy to raise children by taking their names. Such as A Yang, A Niu, A Pig, Rabbit, Puppy and so on. In addition, there is a kind of name related to this, which is named after the zodiac of the child's birth year, such as Xiaolong, Jiajun (Ma), Yutu and Niu Gang. This kind of words is more common in rural areas.
The weight method is described in Lu Xun's novel The Storm: "The habit of this village is a bit special. When a woman gives birth to a child, she likes to weigh it with a scale, so she uses the weight as a nickname." For example, "nine-pound old woman" is a special naming custom among the people in eastern Zhejiang.
Couples with sexual reform gave birth to children in succession, or daughters in succession, so they took one of the boys as a girl's name and raised it as a daughter. Or take a daughter as a boy and treat her as a boy. This is often seen among the people. The former is named as Xin Mei, Bao Ji and Qiu Yue, while the latter is named as Ya Nan, Jia Jun and Jia Xiong.
The ranking method is that two brothers have the same name, and the first word or the next word is the same, which is called ranking. For example, there are four brothers named Qiaoru, Burning Ru, Rongru and Jane Ru in Zuo Zhuan. Another example is Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi in Water Margin. Some parents, following the worship of the law, think that their children have a poor life, and they can only grow up if they are raised by people with more than two surnames. So he adopted the child to a couple with different surnames, and then asked them to take a new name. The names of these children often mean adopted sons, such as He Yang, Zhou Liugen, Zhang Qing (please) Miao, Zheng Baoxian (baby) and so on.
Five elements method is named according to the missing lines of five elements, which accounts for a large proportion of the names of people over 4 years old in mainland China. In the past, when people named their names, they asked fortune tellers to calculate the "eight characters" and "five elements"; If someone hits five lines and lacks one or two lines, they have to use the word "missing line" or use the word "missing line" as a radical name to remedy it, otherwise the child will have a long life. For example, the name of Runtu in Lu Xun's novel Hometown: Because he was born in a leap month and the five elements were short of soil, his father called him Runtu. Another example is Fang Youhai (short of water), zhangxin (short of gold), Gao Senquan (short of wood and water) and Xu Yankun (short of fire soil), which are also named after the Five Elements Method.