You need to change your name. If you don’t change your name, you will be banned and even beheaded.
In ancient times, the emperor had the supreme status. His name, birth date, zodiac signs, nicknames, etc. did not allow his subjects to have the same words with the same accent as him. Therefore, if people who lived in ancient times had a name when they were born, and if they changed dynasties, their first and last names would have to be changed.
"Gongyang Zhuan·Min Yuan" says: "The Spring and Autumn Period are taboo for the venerable, taboo for relatives, and taboo for sages." This is a general principle of taboo avoidance in ancient times. The first category of taboo objects is the emperor. Avoiding the names of contemporary emperors and previous emperors of this dynasty was a "national taboo" or "public taboo" at that time.
For example, during the Liu Xiu period, Xiucai was changed to Maocai; Qianlong once issued an edict not to include the four characters "五福 came to the door" in the couplets, in order to avoid tabooing the name of Emperor Shunzhi Fulin. Sometimes the queen's name is even taboo. For example, Empress Lu was named a pheasant, and the courtiers had to change their name to a pheasant when they encountered a pheasant.
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The methods used by ancient people to avoid naming taboos are as follows:
1. Synonym avoidance method, which is used to avoid taboos in the name of the emperor. Synonymous words.
For example, the Qin Dynasty was very strict about taboos and did not allow anyone to offend Qin Shihuang's name. Qin Shihuang's name was correct, so many people would not correct his name when choosing it. Even if the word "正" is used, it must be changed to a word with the same meaning as the word "正", and all names related to "正" should be replaced. The synonym of "正" is "Duan", so the first month was changed to "Duan Yue".
2. Homophone avoidance method. In ancient times, some dynasties used a method to avoid tabooing the emperor's name, which was to use homophones instead.
For example, the name of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty was Xuan Ye. Common people avoided these two characters when naming. Some families just have the generation character "Xuan". There is no way, this generation is in the family tree. disappeared and can only be replaced by homophones. The homonym here is similar to the homonym, but not the same as the word Xuan. People in the Qing Dynasty used "Yuan" instead of "Xuan" and Yu instead of Ye, which cleverly avoided the emperor's name.