The word , also known as ideograph, is a name related to the meaning of the original name given by China people in ancient times in addition to the name of China. Nowadays, it is rarely used by people. According to records, in ancient times, men took characters when they were 2 years old, and women took characters when they got married. For example, Kong Qiu's word Zhong Ni, Sima Qian's word long, and Li Bai's word too white. According to the Book of Rites? It is said in Tan Gong that when a person is an adult, he is already an adult and needs to be respected by the society. It is disrespectful for his peers to just blow their names, so he needs to take a word for himself and use it when interacting with others in society to show mutual respect. Therefore, when the ancients came of age, their names were only used by their elders and themselves, claiming that they were humble, and words were used for society? To call it. Yan Zhitui of the Northern Qi Dynasty believed that people's names are different from each other, while characters reflect a person's virtue. Most people's names and words are related in meaning. Chinese characters originated in Shang Dynasty and prevailed in Zhou Dynasty, and later formed a system. Until modern times, it was still used by many people in the intellectual and cultural circles, such as Hu Shi's words, Sun Wen's words and Mao Zedong's words. Modern times are rarely used. China has a population of 1.3 billion, and the number of people with the same name is too high. The cultural circles now intend to restore the ideographic system. Some people think that the decline of ideographs has something to do with the movement to break the capitalism and suppress intellectuals in the mainland, and that "Chinese characters" are a symbol of feudal intellectuals, so many people abandon them. There are generally one word, two words and three words. The most is two words. Word? Some forms of Cheng:
- Add the word "Zi" as a man's respectful name before the word: Gong Sunqiao's word Zi Chan, Du Fu's word Zi Mei
- Add a ranking word before the word to indicate ranking: Kong Qiu's word Zhong Ni; There are also-ranking as the word. Are you online? Korean and women also have characters. But its composition and? The child is not the same. Generally, the surname is crowned with a ranking word as a word. In addition, in ancient Chinese prose, when names and words are connected, it is customary to say the word first and then bark.
Reference: Ji Xiuqin, surname? Name? Title, the history of China? Series of Cultural Knowledge, Elephant Press, 1997.