"Strictly speaking, the so-called "taboos" Shen refers to are actually "taboos." These taboos are very reasonable and practical. If the name violates the taboo, it will be really troublesome. The chil

"Strictly speaking, the so-called "taboos" Shen refers to are actually "taboos." These taboos are very reasonable and practical. If the name violates the taboo, it will be really troublesome. The child who is going to be named now will be in trouble in the future. It is very likely that he is the king of the Lu State. According to the taboo rules, if the child is named "Ding", then the "Ding", the most common bronze vessel in the Zhou Dynasty, can no longer be called "Ding" in the Lu State, and has to be renamed, for example. "Guo"; if the child is named "Tai", then Mount Tai cannot be called Mount Tai anymore. For example, it is changed to Mount Wuyi. Later, when people discover that there is already a Mount Wuyi in the south, they will be called South Wuyi and North Wuyi... This kind of embarrassment has happened before. Seniors such as Duke Xi of Jin, Duke Wu of Song, Duke Xiang of Lu, etc. all had such troubles when choosing names. After explaining the facts and reasoning, Duke Huan of Lu said: "Well. , so be it, this child was born with the same stems and branches as me, so let’s call him ‘same’, which means ‘the same as me’. " Books such as "The Book of Rites" also say: When a child is three months old, his father will give him a name. At this time, the "name" is given. When the boy reaches the age of twenty, he must be given a crown ceremony - - It is to put a hat on the head. This is the coming-of-age ceremony for boys in ancient times. It was not until this time that the boy who had just grown up had his own "word". From then on, everyone no longer called him by his first name. The reason behind this is: the name is very noble and cannot be called casually. We see that ancient people called each other. For example, when you see Guan Yu on the street and say hello to him, you should call him " "Brother Yun", you cannot call him "Guan Yu" with a straight face, and modern titles such as "Xiao Guan" and "Brother Yu" cannot be used. Of course, if you are not familiar with him, you can still call him "Guan Yu". "General Guan" is better. Looking back further, it is said that people in the Shang Dynasty were popular in naming their birthdays, so we see that the names of the kings in the Shang Dynasty were all Taijia, Wuding, etc., all of which were A, B, B, Ding. This may also be a ranking. Not sure. Previous scholars studied the unearthed bronzes and determined which ones belonged to the Shang Dynasty and which ones belonged to the Zhou Dynasty based on the names in the inscriptions. But is this classification really accurate? Later, new information emerged and it was discovered that Zhou people named them. There is also the tradition of using A, B, C and D, which is troublesome. For example, Luo Zhenyu, who has been entangled with Wang Guowei for a lifetime, had his entire monograph on bronzes wiped out - although some problems are still unclear. But this is generally what the ancients paid attention to when naming. From this point of view, the reason why Gongsun Chou was named "Chou" may be because he was born in the Chou period. In short, it was not because his father thought he was ugly. There are seven chapters in "Mencius". The first chapter "King Hui of Liang" has been completely explained in the previous book. This book is here to explain the second chapter "Gongsun Chou". The main text of "Mencius" has not even appeared. So much space has been spent just on the word "ugly" in "Gongsun Chou". Haha, isn't it very irritating? Don't worry, there is something even more irritating. It's in the back.