Scholars' names began to be valued in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. During this period, due to the formation of scholar groups and the changes of social environment, many literati began to awaken, and there appeared characters, paintings and poems that highlighted their individuality. This requires writing their own names on them, so there is no way to pass down bad names. Therefore, from this period, they began to pay attention to their own names consciously, especially literati.
It was only in the Song Dynasty and later that people paid attention to their names. The national policy of the Song Dynasty was to emphasize literature over martial arts. After that, the development of Neo-Confucianism made people pay more attention to inner self-cultivation. Literati can indulge in poetry and prose, and rural villagers can also chat about painting and calligraphy. They also attach great importance to their own names. They are no longer the names like clay figurine Zhang, but have special names, such as Song Mayuan's "A Journey to the Mountain Path in Spring", which has their own signatures.
There was a special method to choose names in the Song Dynasty. What was the name? Pentagonal dissection? According to the number of strokes of the name, it corresponds to the five grids of heaven, people, earth, total and external, and the corresponding one is promising; If it's not good, change the name. This was all the rage at that time, which was just as popular as our current weight loss.
People have attached great importance to the names of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. What's more, those literati not only named their names well, but also integrated their names with the seal cutting of calligraphy and painting, and carried forward their names. We know many celebrities, among them, Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics, Badashanren, Tang Bohu and so on are famous representatives, and their names were already prominent at that time.
When it comes to names, people nowadays pay more attention to names, and they have to go to special places to ask people to name them, and then they think that this name will protect children's healthy growth. This is a feudal superstition, and we should not believe it. Now, naming names is more about meaning beauty, and remembering them is also one aspect! When you name your child, which word means beauty?