How did common people get their names during the Han Dynasty?

They are all named by their parents or other elders, and they also have some Han color.

After hundreds of years of chaos in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the tyranny of Qin and the chaos of the late Qin, For the common people, the new world is as wonderful as 1949, so there are various expressions in the names of children and grandchildren

The first category: Guanghan, Anguo, Anshi and other formats The name is similar to how people in New China named their sons Jianguo (there were several Jianguo in my hometown village), Guoding, Jianjun, Guoqiang, etc. This is also a kind of affirmation of the new government by the people, and the policies of emperors such as Wenjing and Zhaoxuan to calm the people. Not bad, the common people also hope for the good of the country

The second category: in the name of good wishes such as "luck", "lu", "longevity", "prosperity", etc., although it seems quite tacky now A name, but it also has a beautiful meaning. In the last century, all kinds of strong, bright, lei and wei also emerged in endlessly

The third category: "loyalty", "filial piety" and other words that reflect the changes in the mainstream culture of society The naming style is related to the mainstreaming of Confucian culture in the late Western Han Dynasty through Emperor Han Yuan

Finally, I have a personal feeling from reading history. There are many single-character names for the scholar-bureaucrats, such as Li Guang, Li Gan, and Li Ling. The three generations all had single-character names, Wang Feng, Wang Mang, etc. Maybe it was an illusion