Although the boundaries between names and words are blurred today, choosing a good name is equally important. Some parents spend a lot of money to name their children. In fact, good names are hidden in Chinese classics, including the Four Books and Five Classics, the works of various scholars, and ancient poems. The Book of Songs and Songs of Chu are the two major sources of Chinese literature. In the most pure and clean air of ancient times, every song and every chant is a classic. The ancients gave the name, and there is a saying that it is the Book of Songs for men and the Songs of Chu for women. This means that boys should be named from the Book of Songs, and girls should be named from the Songs of Chu. This history can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. Because the common people before the pre-Qin Dynasty actually had no classics to cite. Names were the beautiful sustenance of parents for their children, and everyone wanted to have a nice name.
Because the "Book of Songs" and "Chu Ci" have far-reaching influence, and there are many beautiful words in them, many parents like to find some words from them to use as their children's names. First, names have social attributes. In social life, names are symbols and identifiers that distinguish individuals. It is precisely because of names that humans can have normal social interactions. In social interactions, the first thing people come into contact with is the other person's name. The quality of your name directly affects the other person's perception. Sometimes, a name can even change a person's destiny. When choosing a name, you should not choose a word first. You should first look at the balance of the five elements of the birthday and then choose a word that is helpful to the child as a name.
The ancients said: "It is better to teach a child a skill than to give him a thousand pieces of gold; it is better to give a child a good reputation than to teach a child a skill." The ancients also said: "The shape is used to determine the name, the name is used to determine the matter, and the matter is used to verify the name." It can be seen that the ancient sages attached great importance to naming, and thus derived many naming methods, such as naming with conception, naming with images, naming with character combinations, naming with eight characters, naming with five patterns, etc. In the opening chapter of "Li Sao", the longest lyric poem in ancient China, Qu Yuan tells his father's serious attitude and detailed process of naming him. The description is clear, vivid and very poetic.