5 taboo words for naming: you can't use the name of the country; Not in the name of official position; Not in the name of mountains and rivers; Not in the name of hidden diseases; Not in the name of animals; You can't live by money. Such as Xiong Kuang, Shou Shou, Qi, Beggar, Beggar, Yi Jiu, Chu Jiu, E Lai, and Jiefu.
There are five names: faithfulness, righteousness, image, falsehood and classification. Take the famous students as the letter and the moral life as the righteousness. Take class life as an image, take things as false, and take them from the father as a class. Not by the country, not by officials, not by mountains and rivers, not by hidden diseases, not by animals, not by money.
There are five principles and six taboos in naming extended materials.
five principles: faithfulness, righteousness, category, falsehood and iconicity. The letter is named after the special mark born at birth; Righteousness is named after the auspicious phenomenon at birth; Elephants are named after similar things; False can pretend to be the name of everything; A class can take a name similar to its father. With the country, the name is abolished, the official is abolished, the mountains and rivers are abolished, the animals are abolished, and the gifts are abolished.
It was popular in Shang Dynasty to name emperors after Tiangan characters. In the Zhou Dynasty, this naming method was still popular, taking not only Tiangan characters but also Dizhi characters, such as Wu, Shen and Yin. In addition, it is also named after the four seasons, the moon, frost and snow. For example, Xiong Yan, the king of Chu, has four sons, among which the names of the eldest and the second are Bo Shuang and Zhong Xue.
References: People's Daily Online-The ancients named it: Zhou people summed up five principles and six taboos.