In class, the teacher called the roll: "Liu Zihan got up to answer this question"
Monitor: "Teacher, are you calling Liu Zihan, Liu Zhihan or Liu Zihan?"
I can't help but let netizens jokingly call the generation after "catalpa".
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And some parents who are influenced by the culture of Hong Kong and Taiwan directly give their children names like this: Duanmu Queen, Epic Wang Jue, Maruko Egg. What a capital suit.
After reading the routines of modern people's names, let's take a look at the routines of ancient people's names.
As we all know, the names of China people are "surnames+names", so where did surnames come from? There is a saying that ancient surnames originated from the totem of ancestors. In the tribal times, each tribe has its own totem of worship and belief, such as bears, snakes, leaves and so on. Different totems formed the symbols of different tribes, and later became the code name of each tribe, that is, "surname".
Having said the surname, what does the first name mean? As mentioned in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, the name of "name" means that it is convenient for everyone to identify who it is after dark. For example, the name of the bear tribe is called: Xiong Da, Xiong Er.
Totem surnames
In Shang Dynasty, it was said that there were ten suns in the sky, which were called A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui respectively. One of the suns rises every day, and these ten days are called ten days. These ten suns are called heavenly stems, and the royal family of Shang Dynasty named them in this way. For example, Shang Tang's son was born in Bingri, which is called Waibing.
The way of naming heavenly stems and earthly branches has been in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and people began to let themselves go. For example, Hou Ji, the ancestor of the Zhou family, was named Ji, but his name was abandoned. Why was it called "abandoned"? Legend has it that Hou Ji's mother, Jiang Yuan, once stepped on the giant's footsteps in the wild and got pregnant when she came back. She soon gave birth to a son. She thought it was unlucky, so she left the child in a narrow lane, only to find that all the cattle and horses in the past avoided stepping on him, so Jiang Yuan wanted to put the child in a sparsely populated mountain forest. As a result, it was found that there were many people in the mountain forest. In desperation, Jiang Yuan had to leave the child in an icy ditch, but not yet. There was a big bird flying over to protect the child with its wings. Jiang Yuan thought the child was amazing and amazing, so he took it back and raised him. Because he wanted to abandon him, he named him "Abandon".
Portrait of Hou Ji
Next, let's talk about a general in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. His big name is Lu Shuang, but his word is "girl". Think about the battle between the two armies, and the enemy calls for battle. "The girls across the street dare to fight." Then a big man comes out, with a great sense of picture. "If a family is here, you can kowtow at night."
There is a popular saying among the people that "a cheap name is easy to feed", so that many names such as "Liu Ergou" and "Wang Dog Egg" appear. But then an emperor's base name, he is the Great Ming Taizu Emperor-Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a farmer, was originally named "Zhu Chongba", because he ranked eighth in the family, and was later changed to "Zhu Yuanzhang" after an uprising. In order to give his descendants a better name, Zhu Yuanzhang, who became emperor, set a tall standard.
Zhu Yuanzhang has 26 sons, and each son's name has a wooden character beside it. He gave each son a generational table with 2 words. Starting from his grandchildren, the first word of each generation uses the words in the generational table, and the second word must have a part consisting of five elements. It means native gold, gold produces water, aquatic wood, and wood makes a fire. The principle of fire producing soil.
But Zhu Yuanzhang underestimated the fertility of the family, from five people in the early years of Hongwu, to 127 people in Yongle, to 19611 in the thirty-second year of Jiajing, and then to more than 8, people in the thirty-second year of Wanli, to feel this powerful fertility. At this time, the problem came. When the princes and grandchildren named their descendants, they should not only avoid the names of their ancestors, but also avoid the same names as their peers.
Taking stock of so many ancient names, it seems that not only our generation, but also the ancients are not bad at naming themselves.