For those large families that have been passing on the inheritance, genealogy can still be found, and even generations are recorded on the genealogy. Especially after giving birth to a child, they will look through the family tree to name the child. Today, this tradition has not been continued. People today are becoming more and more casual in naming, resulting in many names that are the same. The ancients did not choose names as they do now, but paid great attention to connotations. Secondly, they could avoid duplication of names, which would lead to confusion in seniority.
If we look at the names of the ancients now, we will find that the names of the ancients sound very poetic. At the same time, we can see from the names the deep wishes of the elders to the younger ones, or we can see from the names the deep wishes of the elders to the younger ones. We can see the expectations of the elders for the younger generation, etc., so the name is determined by looking at the genealogy, and then the name is chosen by quoting poetry. Although the names people choose today also have such expectations, they are very straightforward and not as subtle as the ancients. For example, in the 1960s, many people named Jianguo, Patriot, etc. to express their commitment to national construction. support.
The most important thing for ancient people to choose names based on genealogy was to distinguish seniority. In ancient times, a powerful family had a particularly large number of children, which were further divided into direct and collateral lines. When something needed to be discussed, you could distinguish which generation you were in based on your name, and the distance between you and yourself, and thus To infer whether you should help or curry favor, it can be said that the ancient method of naming based on genealogy served this purpose. Nowadays, with the development of society, the concept of clan is not so strong, and due to the popularization of Internet culture, more people pursue fashion and catchy names when choosing names, and no longer choose names based on genealogy.
In addition, many people nowadays like to chase stars, so in order to express their love for celebrities, they also include it in the names they give their children. From the name, we can see the popular culture at that time, and it is also the mark left by the times.