1. Generational naming is a combination of surname, generational name and personal name, so that everyone can understand each other's seniority when they hear the name.
Each surname has a different generational name, and each family will be named according to its own family's backup name. For example, there is a Zhang family now. The backup name of the Zhang family's grandfather is "Yu". Then the Zhang family's father's backup name must be "Mao", and the Zhang family's grandson's backup name must be "?" Day?, go down one by one. By adopting such a seniority name, when everyone hears the word in the middle of the name, they will know what seniority this person is in our family and how we should honor him.
2. The naming of seniority is actually passed down from ancient times. In ancient times, there were a large number of people in a family, which could easily lead to confusion among generations. In order to clarify the relationship between elders and younger ones, the term naming based on seniority came into being.
Generational naming has nothing to do with age. There may be someone younger than you, but he may still be your elder. This is to clarify the order of seniority in a large family. People born first will have higher seniority, people born later will have lower seniority, and so on. If there is a family member who gets married very early and gives birth to children very early, and this is true for every generation, then it is very likely that his children will be the elders of other people's children, because the naming method is based on generational generation, which does not matter the age, but pays more attention to It's about seniority.
3. Nowadays, the phenomenon of naming according to seniority basically does not occur in ordinary families. Each family will name according to their own family habits and preferences.
Of course, in our modern life, we still have the backup order left by the previous generation, but when people nowadays choose names again, they no longer have this habit, because now each family is relatively scattered. Each family is an individual, and everyone can have more ideas about their own names. They will be named according to each person's family situation, and are no longer constrained by the ancient naming based on seniority.