Since ancient times, it has been very important to give your children a name that is nice, easy to remember and has a meaning. According to traditional rural customs, the name of the next generation of children often needs to contain the name of this generation. It is an issue of seniority. In the past, rural areas, especially older people with some status, paid special attention to this. After all, in rural areas, there were only a few big surnames in a village. Many of these surnames had their own genealogy, and genealogy The sorting method is based on seniority, so there is an inevitable rule when naming descendants.
You may have this experience. When talking about someone in a village, the old people often mutter a few words about who this person is and whether he is considered a junior or an elder in the village. However, with the rapid development of the country's economy, many rural people have bought houses in the city and settled down in urban life. After having their own children, the current situation is that young parents no longer name their children in the traditional way, but It is because it sounds good and has a meaning, and even more so, people will spend a lot of money to find a name master who specializes in naming. This is why many children's names now no longer reflect their seniority.
So what’s the problem? Does this mean that the traditional way of naming is obsolete in a sense? In fact, this is not the case. Strictly speaking, naming according to seniority can only be regarded as a traditional custom in rural areas, and cannot be regarded as an "inevitability". With the continuous progress of society and the vigorous development of spiritual civilization, the constraints of this custom will naturally be "abandoned" by people. It seems that this is a very normal phenomenon.
The editor believes that the main reason for this situation is the overall decline of traditional family culture. Since many young people in rural areas now live in cities, their lifestyle has gradually diverged from the past. Farming customs, behavior is more free, and thoughts are no longer suppressed by certain traditions. Of course, naming children will no longer follow the older generation's custom of ranking based on seniority, with or without seniority. For young parents, it no longer matters.
Another point that is also very important is that there are often fewer names with seniority. It will be very troublesome to choose a name in this way. Take the emperor of the Ming Dynasty as an example. According to the rules at that time, the big name in the name was Some of them are characters with the radical "gold, wood, water, fire, earth". Since the number of characters with the character next to gold is really limited, and the emperor didn't want to have the same name as his ancestors, he created many relatively uncommon characters, so that he eventually created half of the periodic table. People nowadays, especially young people, are certainly unwilling to accept such restrictive restrictions. Doing so cannot highlight the individuality of a child's name.
The above analysis results show that naming according to seniority no longer meets the needs of social development, and it is inevitable that this traditional custom will gradually fade away. Many young parents born in the 1980s and 1990s tend to abandon this worldliness when naming their next generation. It is an inevitable trend to give their children a name that is loud, nice, and has a meaning.