1. Li Bai
When Li Bai was seven years old, his father wanted to give his son a formal name. Li Bai's parents loved reading, and they wanted to train their son to be an elegant and refined person. The father usually likes to teach his children to read and write poems. When he was planning to name the name, he and his mother agreed to test his son's ability to write poems while walking in the courtyard.
My father looked at the verdant trees and flowers in the courtyard in spring, and recited a poem: "The country of spring brings warmth and flowers bloom, and it comes first to welcome the spring." The mother continued: "The fire burns the leaves and the red clouds fall in the forest. ". Li Bai knew that his parents had recited the first three lines of the poem, so he deliberately left the last line in the hope that he could continue. He walked to the blooming plum blossoms, thought for a moment and said: "The plum blossoms are in full bloom and the tree is white."
"White" - doesn't it express Li Hua's holiness and elegance? The father had an idea and decided to choose the two characters "Li" and "Bai" at the beginning and end of the wonderful sentence as the child's name, so he named his seven-year-old son "Li Bai".
2. Li Er (Laozi)
Laozi was born with a weak body but a big head, wide eyebrows and wide ears, his eyes were as clear as beads in the abyss, and his nose was as clear as a pair of bridges. Because his ears grew larger, he was named "Dan"; because he was born in the Year of the Tiger (571 BC), his neighbors also called him Xiao Li'er, which means "little tiger". Because people in the Jianghuai area call "cat" "li'er", which sounds the same as "li'er". Over time, Lao Dan's nickname "Li Er" became his famous name "Li Er" and was passed down from generation to generation.
3. Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan felt that his birthday was a little different, so he said in "Li Sao": "Huang Lan Kuiyu came here for the first time, and Zhao Xiyu paid tribute to him. "My name is Zhengzexi, and my courtesy name is Lingjun." It means: My father saw that my birth date was extraordinary, so he gave me a good name. My name is "Ping" and my given name is "Yuan".
4. Ma Zhiyuan
It is said that Ma Zhiyuan’s original name was Shi Yuan. For his own future, Ma Zhiyuan wanted to leave home and study far away. Before leaving, he came to the Iron Buddha Temple in the county seat to worship Buddha.
After worshiping the Iron Buddha, Ma Zhiyuan asked to see the elders of the temple. He said, my name is Shiyuan, and I want to learn. The elder saw that he was very eager to learn, so he talked to him and taught him: "Without indifference, you can't make your ambition clear, and without tranquility, you can't reach far. Since you were born in Dongli, your ambition is thousands of miles away." You will definitely become a great person in the future. But you must remember not to be rich but to do things for the people." From then on, Ma Zhiyuan changed his name from Shiyuan to Zhiyuan. Regarding Ma Zhiyuan's so-called Dongli, it is said that he was indifferent to fame and fortune in his later years to emulate Tao Yuanming's aspirations.
Extended information:
Some categories of names:
1. Baby name
Baby name, also called baby name, nickname, and small character , is a person's name in childhood. Such as mistress, mistress, baby, baby?, they are generally not used when they grow up, unless the elders occasionally call them to the younger ones.
2. Pen name
Pen names are often aliases signed by literati and poets on their works according to their own preferences.
3. Stage name
Stage name is the alias used by the artist when performing. For example, Bai Yushuang, whose original name is Li Huimin and double name is Li Guizhen, is a Pingju opera performing artist whose artistic style is called "White Party". Judging from the various unique expressions of the above "name", they not only reflect different titles at different ages, but also symbolize a person's occupation, status and identity.
4. Scientific name
Scientific name is the name a person uses when he starts studying.
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