In fact, seniority is an important part of our Chinese national culture, but from now on, it is gradually disappearing, because on the one hand, young parents pay more attention to meaning or meaning when naming their children. It has a meaning of sustenance, and the old man is too embarrassed to interfere too much. On the other hand, it seems that some of the characters passed down from the ancestors are really difficult to name, especially in modern and contemporary society. But in some places where family values ??are relatively strong, such as our family, there are already compromise methods.
I also discovered this phenomenon by chance. I was born in 1998. From my generation onwards, people are named according to their generation, but the names of the next generation are The nephews no longer follow the generational order. When the new family tree was printed, I still found that some of the names were different from what I knew. In other words, the names registered on their ID cards were indeed for their own use, but the family tree The name above still uses the character generation. I mean it is equivalent to two names. In fact, from my personal point of view, I think it is more appropriate to handle it this way. You don’t need to use the character generation in your name, but we all have to at least know who we are. Zi generation.
The above only represents my personal views, please forgive me for any inappropriateness!
Nowadays, many young people no longer name their children according to the seniority ranked by the older generation.
I think the tradition of naming according to generation was very good in the past. A family can tell their generation as soon as they say their names. Some relatives are far apart and have not moved around for a long time. If you don't know each other, you will know that we are a family if we exchange names.
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Our family has a genealogy and generations. However, my brother and I have different names in the genealogy and ID cards.