Why should relatives and friends of the same race not have the same name when naming?

Everyone knows that the development of surnames regulates human reproduction and the development of social ethics. Later, with the increase in population and the development of culture, it was difficult to distinguish the same clan and region with the same surname and the same group, and production and life were prone to chaos. Although the addition of a surname to a given name can further regulate population mobility, the organization of social production, etc., the same name is weak among clans.

There will already be chaos in social management and ethics. At the same time, with the development of heredity and education, human beings' reverence for heaven and earth, and the improvement of economic rights, human beings need to constantly absorb the experience of previous lives, regulate the production and life of future generations, revere rights, and have the wisdom of their ancestors reflected in social behavior, so they must learn to inherit It, this spiritual development must have a physical form.

For example, advocating political power, saints, and even weapons and names representing rights. In family management and cultural inheritance, people must not have the same name or character as their ancestors. This is naturally inherited in naming. The names of ancestors and elders cannot be called directly. We dare not call our elders by their first names, and we cannot even tell others their names. If we mess up etiquette and challenge ethics and authority, it will be difficult to live up to our standards.

This is also the normative requirement of human beings for their own development. Regardless of whether they speak or write, the Han people are taboo about mentioning the names of their ancestors and elders. Sima Qian wrote "Historical Records" because his father's name was "Tan", so he changed "Zhao Tan" to "Zhao Tong" and "Li Tan" to "Li Tong"; during the Six Dynasties, some people avoided the family taboo "Tong" In the Qing Dynasty, Liu Wensou, whose father's name was "Yue", refused to listen to the word "乐".

It can be seen that the family taboo in the past dynasties has been strict. Until now, it is still taboo for children to call their elders by their first names, let alone their nicknames. Words that are the same as or have the same pronunciation as their elders' names are also taboo. What is especially taboo is that the name of the younger generation must not be the same as the name of the elders, or have homophones or homophones.

Otherwise, disrespecting one’s elders is considered an act of “deceiving one’s ancestors”. When younger generations call their elders, they should generally use the title of generation instead of their first name, such as grandpa, grandma, grandpa, grandma, dad, mom, etc. This type of title can clearly indicate the seniority relationship and also contains the meaning of respect. This is not only true between the eldest and younger generations within the family, but also between the eldest and younger generations in the master-disciple relationship.

As the saying goes, "A son does not speak his father's name, and a disciple does not speak his teacher's name." Not only are younger generations tabooed in calling their elders by their names, even among peers, there are also taboos when addressing them. In interpersonal communication, it is often out of respect for the other party that it is not appropriate to call him or her by his or her first name. Generally speaking, we refer to each other as brother, brother, sister, sister, sir, madam, comrade, master, etc. When you have to ask the other person's name, you should politely say "Excuse me for your name", "What is your name" and so on.