The ancient people named names, characters and numbers with special meanings. In China, different names should be used in different occasions according to different meanings. China has a surname before it has a name, character and number. For example, the ancestor of the Chinese nation, Huangdi, originally surnamed Gongsun, changed his surname to Ji because he lived in Jishui. And because of living in the hill of Xuanyuan, it was named Xuanyuan.
At the beginning, the existence of surnames was a link of the blood line of the Neogene clan, and it was a necessary form to contact the blood line and implement a large number of small clans on the basis of the patriarchal clan system. Name, also known as real name. According to Zhou Li's records, the baby was named by his father three months after birth, and this custom began in Shang Dynasty. A name is a very important thing. After a name is decided, it is usually necessary to tell the relatives and people of the child's name, and also to report it to the local governor for naturalization registration. Therefore, the naming ceremony should be very grand, because it is the first major event in a child's life.
and there are different characters, which are also called ideographs. Characters were invented mainly to accommodate the custom of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors. Because our country emphasizes that ancestors should not be called by their first names, they have developed ideograms, so the generation of words is actually mainly to respect their elders. Words can't be called casually. When the ancients came of age, they needed to call themselves names to show their humility, and words were used for others to call them. Characters are not taken at birth. Men take characters when they are 2 years old, and women take characters when they are engaged.
The last number, this one is even simpler. Generally speaking, the number is taken by yourself or given by others. When we look at the introduction of the ancients, we usually have a "xx from xx", in which we give ourselves a number. In China's etiquette regulations, there must be a certain relationship between names and characters, but there is no restriction on numbers and names. Just take whatever you like, and nothing else matters.