Because after Yongzheng Emperor Yinzhen (zhēn) came to the throne, in order to avoid name taboos, except for himself, other emperor brothers avoided the taboo word "Yin" and changed their rankings to the word "Yun". For example, Yinyou changed his name to Yunyou, Yinti changed his name to Yunti, and Yinyi changed his name to Yunyi.
The avoidance of the emperor's name is backed by mandatory provisions of the law. The Tang Dynasty's legal code "Tang Lv Shu Yi" stipulates that due to a clerical or oral error, writing or speaking the emperor's name will be punished; if the name violates the taboo, he will be exiled for three years.
When the Manchu and Qing dynasties entered the country, Emperor Shunzhi Fulin once said that people in the world should not be blessed just because of the word "福" in his name, indicating that people did not need to hide "福", but later the Manchus The provisions of the Qing Dynasty's Code of Laws, "The Laws of the Qing Dynasty," were similar to those of the Tang Dynasty, and unintentional taboo violations would result in dozens or hundreds of slaps.
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Name-avoidance objects:
The first is the emperor, who avoids the names of contemporary emperors and previous emperors of this dynasty. For example, during Liu Xiu's period, Xiucai was changed to Maocai; Qianlong once issued an edict not to include the four characters Wufulinmen in the couplets in order to avoid the taboo of the name of Emperor Shunzhi Fulin. Sometimes the queen's name is even taboo. For example, Empress Lu was named pheasant, and the courtiers had to change their name to pheasant when they met a pheasant.
The second is to avoid tabooing the name of the superior, that is, the subordinates must conceal the names of the superior himself and his fathers and ancestors. Even some arrogant officials strictly ordered their subordinates and people to avoid their names. There is a story in "Notes of Laoxue'an" compiled by Lu You: A state official named Tian Deng did not allow his subordinates and the people in the state to call him by his name or write his name. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, lanterns were lit for three days as usual. . The clerk who wrote the notice did not dare to write the word "lamp", so he changed it to "set fire in this state for three days according to law." Hence the joke that "only state officials are allowed to set fires, but common people are not allowed to light lamps."
The third is to avoid sages, which mainly refers to avoiding the names of the sage Confucius and the sub-sage Mencius. Some dynasties also avoid the name of the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of the Chinese nation, and some even avoid the name of Zhou Gong. Avoid the name of Lao Tzu.
The fourth is to avoid elders, that is, avoid the names of parents and grandparents. When interacting with others, you should avoid the other party's elders, otherwise it will be extremely rude. The father of Li He, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, was named Jin, and "Jin" and "Jin" have the same pronunciation, so Li He could not be promoted to Jinshi in his life.
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