Nomenclature is an important part of Chinese traditional culture, which was born in ancient times before Chinese characters existed. "A winner can become a dragon, but a loser can become an adult". Visible name, font size is important. It inherits emotion, will and ambition, contains essence, qi and spirit, and expresses the mystery of heaven and earth.
Every name is likely to accompany everyone for a lifetime, so naming is a major event in life, and everyone thinks of a good name. Therefore, it is necessary to choose a good name when naming a name. A good name can convey positive energy, and a good name is productivity!
Because names are so significant, many parents always try their best to fill their children with meaningful words in the process of naming their children, but I don't know that some words may not be suitable. There are many taboos in China's naming culture, and some words are also taboo.
Share some taboo questions about naming:
1. Avoid cold and uncommon words
Everyone's name is used for communication, and you can't be maverick or willful, otherwise, the name will lose its own value. In this interconnected era, computers and artificial intelligence have gradually replaced the vast majority of manpower, while computer storage is always an unconscious machine, and the Chinese characters it stores are limited to commonly used words. If you use some uncommon words when naming, most people don't know them, which will eventually affect the communication between people. Using uncommon words to name can only increase the difficulty and trouble of others' work in vain.
Parents' motivation for choosing uncommon words is actually very simple, that is, to keep up with the customs and make their children's names more attractive. Therefore, parents often ignore a problem. The commonly used words that people know are only three or four thousand words, and the name is mainly for others to call, not for the purpose of showing off learning.
For example, if you apply for a job in a company and the supervisor looks at your resume, if he doesn't recognize your name, he will definitely not have a clear impression of you. If he mispronounced your name when calling you, and you corrected it, this scene may put you in an awkward position. You will feel embarrassed or even angry because you have lost face, and you may be contemptuous because you don't even know your name. The most direct result is that some discord or disharmony will occur in the process of getting along with superiors and subordinates in the future.
generally speaking, naming should avoid cliches and similarities, but it cannot rely on the use of uncommon words. The use of uncommon words affects the image and hinders communication, which is not worth the loss.
The number of Chinese characters is so large that only Kangxi Dictionary has 42, words in 174. In addition, there are often subtle differences among complicated and simplified characters, ancient and modern characters and regular and popular characters. In the old days, people named themselves and liked to look through Kangxi Dictionary, which was not worth taking. Nowadays, we should learn to use reference books, and the most ideal one is Modern Chinese Dictionary. It also includes words under each word, which is of great reference value for naming. Of course, when using this reference book, we should also pay attention to avoiding the uncommon words in it.
2. It is forbidden to use the names of ancestors and sages.
There is an unwritten rule handed down from ancient times that Han people choose names to avoid ancestors. First, it is because the Han tradition stresses seniority. Taking ancestors' names as names not only ignores the order of generations; And it will be regarded as disrespectful to our ancestors. Second, it is determined by the particularity of the Han nationality itself. The Chinese surname is first inherited from the stepfather's surname, and then given a personal name. Different from some minorities or foreigners, other naming cultures may have traditions such as the original name, the father's name or the original name plus the mother's name and the father's name. Chinese people's names are usually in three parts, that is, their real names, their mother's surnames and their father's surnames. If the Chinese surname inherits the father's surname and adds the ancestor's name, then the two are exactly the same, so you can't tell whether this person is a grandfather or a son at all.
under the system, people should not only "respect the ancestors and respect the ancestors", but also regard it as a gross violation even if they call the monarch by his first name. During Yongzheng and Qianlong periods in the Qing Dynasty, people could be sentenced to death and the nine clans were affected by this article alone. So this taboo is called "national taboo". But as far as modern people are concerned, only the name theory is concerned, and generally the names of great men and celebrities are not used. However, because some people revere a great man or celebrity, they deliberately take his name. Such as Li Dalin and Zhang Dazhao, they are named after the name. Of course, people who are surnamed Zhao and Guan should not be named as "Zilong" and "Yunchang", otherwise it will be indistinguishable from today.
3. Avoid the monotonous repetition of names and fonts
Some people like to use the physical structure of Chinese characters to make names. For example, the names Shi, Lei, Lin, Sen, Nie and Er are examples. The aesthetic effect of this naming is quite good, but it is a pity that our surnames can be used so little. And even if the three surnames are Shi, Lin and Nie, it is impossible for everyone to use this.
If the radicals of some people's names are exactly the same, it will make people feel monotonous. Especially when you sign in calligraphy, you will feel more strongly that the names with the same radicals, such as Jiang Langtao and He Xinren, will have a dull and monotonous feeling no matter how they are arranged, and will not produce aesthetic effects such as casual, varied, tortuous and coherent. Since we use Chinese characters to name our names, we should not only consider the abstract beauty of elegance and refinement, but also pay attention to the varied image beauty when writing.
The above examples show that there is a collocation problem between the first name and the last name. If the physical structure has not changed, the name will appear dull and stiff. Taboo for naming Daquan
In the past, there were two skills in using glyph naming, one was to split the surname into the first name, and the other was to add the surname into the first name. The so-called split surname as the first name refers to the interception of a part of the name as the first name, or the division of the surname into two parts as the first name. For example, Yi Yin, the assistant minister of Shang Tang, took a part of the surname "Yin". In addition, Nie Er, a famous modern musician, Shu Sheyu (Lao She), Zhang Dagong, Ji Wuyan, Dong Qianli and Yang Muyi also belong to this category. In addition, Lei Yutian and He Renke also split their surnames into two parts as their first names. Some people in the ancients divided the name into characters, such as Xie Ao, a patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, whose character was Zhen Gaoyu, and the characters were separated from the name. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Yi's character Sanyi, Xu Fang's character Ark and Song Mei's character Wenyu, and in the Qing Dynasty, you Dong's character Tongren and Lin Ji's character Jiren all belong to this category. It is also like Mao Qiling in the Qing Dynasty. Others divide their names into numbers, such as Hu Jue's old man Gu Yue and Xu Wei's Shuiyuetian Road in the Qing Dynasty.
The so-called adding surnames as names means adding some strokes or radicals to the surnames to form a new word as names, such as Lin Sen, Yu Xu, Jin Xin and Li Ji. Sometimes, I like to use the radicals of names with the same radicals, and promote this as a naming technique, such as Li Ji and Zhang Chi. This technique is not worth promoting.
4. Avoid polyphonic words
Most surnames in China belong to monosyllabic words. There are also some surnames that belong to polyphonic characters, such as the word music. This kind of surname will obviously cause trouble in communication. If the polyphony of surnames is a helpless fact, then the drafting of names can completely avoid this trouble. There is a student named Lele in a certain place in Shandong province, but the teacher doesn't know how to call him in class. The teacher actually stumped by this name. The three words of this name are all polyphonic, and there are eight pronunciations. Readers can arrange them themselves if they are interested.
It seems that this student's parents are deliberately giving the whole thing a hard time. A name has eight pronunciations. How to use it in communication situations? In the end, others dare not scream if they want to, lest they be laughed at if they scream wrong, and it is themselves who suffer. If others can't call, they can stop calling and avoid it. If a person's name is not called or used, what is the value of this name?
Therefore, polyphonic words should be avoided as much as possible. If you want to use it, it is better to mark the pronunciation and reading by linking it into meaning.
There are quite a few polyphonic words in Chinese that commonly use only one sound. When naming such polyphonic words, you don't have to worry about misunderstanding when using them.
5. Don't read the word "around the mouth"
Sometimes you can use reduplication in naming. For example: Ding Ding, Fang Fang, Xin Xin, etc. If it is not a reduplicated name, the pronunciation of the first name and the last name should be separated by a certain distance, otherwise, it will not read smoothly and will not achieve the desired effect. Some names are hard to read, and if they are not good, they will be mispronounced and misheard. The reason is that the name is awkward and almost becomes a tongue twister, such as Shen Jiji, Xia Ya I, Zhou Xiaochao, Geng Jingzhong, Jiang Jiaqiang, Zhang Changshang, Hu Chufu, Lin and Fu Zhufu. Some of these names use two homonyms, such as Yayi and Jiang Jia. Some even use two homonyms, such as ji ji, Xia Ya, Xiao Chao, Hu Fu and Li Zhi. The former is disyllabic, and the latter is rhyming. Some three words have the same rhyme, such as Zhang Changshang, Hu Chufu, Lin and Fu Zhufu. The so-called "roundabout" word mainly refers to disyllabic words, reduplicative words and homophones. Because the initials are the same, continuous pronunciation is laborious; It is also difficult to pronounce words with the same rhyme; Therefore, the double-tone rhyme is the main reason for "around the mouth". From this point of view, avoid using the word "awkward" to name, mainly refers to not using double-tone and overlapping rhyme words to name. It will be much easier to master this law. The naming of the standard of harmony beauty should be that the initials of the first name and surname are in different groups and the finals are in different categories. For example: Peng Tao, Feng Qi, Lou Yun, Qi Fei, Yu Sheng, Wan Hong, etc. These names, because of the different phonological groups of names and surnames, have changed their sounds and are easier to read.
If the first name and surname belong to the same group, or even the same, as long as the relationship between vowels is properly handled, the effect is also good; On the other hand, the first name and surname are the same, or even exactly the same, so it is necessary to work hard on the initials. For example: Peng Bin, Fan Feng, Loulin, Zhang Chen, Yu Kuan, Fang Chuan, etc.
6. Avoid reading indecent homophones
On the surface, some people's names are very elegant, but because they sound the same or similar to other indecent words, it is easy to arouse people's ridicule, become people's joking talk, and produce some funny comedy effect. This kind of words can be divided into two categories: one is some idioms in life, the other is derogatory words. For example: Gong 'an (), Cai Dao (kitchen knife), Lu Hui (furnace ash), He Shang (), Tao Huayun (Peach Blossom), Li Zong (), Tang Qiu (sugar ball), Bao Minhua (popcorn) and so on.
The above homophony makes the name appear not serious and solemn enough, and it is easy to give people a laughing stock in public. In addition, some names are easily misunderstood as derogatory terms, such as: Bai Yanliang (), Hu Lijing (fox), Shen Jingbing () and so on.
this kind of homophony often becomes a nickname. If parents are not careful when naming names, it is easy to cause heavy psychological burden to their children. It will be too late to regret it then.
7. Avoid words that are too fashionable
At any stage of history, there will always be some extremely fashionable words. If you chase such words when naming, it will inevitably make people feel that parents' cultural quality is poor, simplicity is vulgar, and such names are easy to repeat. The "founding of the People's Republic of China" in the 195s and "Weidong" in the 197s can be said to have spread all over the country. "Ma Jianguo", "Wang Weidong", "Liu Weidong" and "Zhao Weidong" can be described as a thousand people. Due to the spread of emotions, it was once the most fashionable thing to dissolve colors into names. It is true that names do need to be decorated with colors, but the colors of names need to be colorful.
it's too monotonous for everyone to chase fashionable words. This can't help but make people think deeply. Although China has a history of thousands of years and pays attention to words such as "loyalty" and "filial piety", words such as "loyalty" and "filial piety" are not frequently used if the standard words are removed. This shows that the ancients did not like to follow the fashion when naming. Confucianism in past dynasties, those great Confucians who tried their best to instill "loyalty, filial piety and benevolence" into people, which one had the words "loyalty" and "filial piety" in its name? Confucius talked about "benevolence" all his life, but he named his son after the fish carp. The fashionable words in the chase are just childish and superficial expressions in the world. This is an extreme of chasing fashion.
Secondly, China people should not have foreign names. The descendants of China are descendants of an ancient civilization, and ours has its own moral, aesthetic and cultural values, so we should not despise ourselves. Especially in naming, it is necessary to show important features. It is considered that it is sometimes fashionable to choose names that are close to westernization, such as John, Mary, Lisa and Anna. However, in the future changes and personal contacts, it may give the other party a psychological impression of contempt and unhappiness. Of course, this is a misunderstanding of different cultures, but this misunderstanding may also affect people's chances of going. It is not worthwhile to pay such a price for a name.
8. Don't praise words too much.
Whether a name is good or not lies not in how gorgeous the words are, but in how well the words are used. However, some people may make mistakes:
When naming boys, there are always some words that are too strong, such as Hao, Qiang, Yan, Meng, Chuang, Gang, etc. Although they are firm, strong and masculine, they are easily associated with being confused and reckless, which makes them willful and informal, and they are mistaken for some. Because the culture of China thinks that my fortitude and strength are not those who are brave in words and emotions, but those who are brave in drawing a sword when something happens, but some great husbands who are not surprised or angry when something happens, laughing and laughing.
Some people always name girls in circles in some words such as Chunlan, Qiuju, Pearl Krabs and Yanyan, but if they are put into a certain cultural atmosphere, they will make people feel floating. Such as flowers, ping, Yan, peach, willow and other words that women often like in their names. Although the flowers are pretty and bright for a while, they dominate the show and make a splash, but after the storm, they will fall into mud and grind into dust. Willow is also a soft and fragile thing. In the idiom, willow flowers, broken flowers and defeated willows show the emotional evaluation of the symbolic meaning of this thing. Peach blossoms are associated with the decline of beauty. Ping and Liu are both symbols of falling and parting. Therefore, it is believed in folklore that these seemingly bright words should be avoided when naming.
9. Most surnames avoid simple names
At present, there is a craze for single names in Chinese names, and the greater disadvantage of single names is that they cause a large number of duplicate names. Calculated by 4, Chinese characters, if all people use a single name, only 4, people can use a single name for a surname, and the 4,1st person will start to have the same name. In this way, the probability of duplicate names will inevitably increase greatly. On the contrary, although there are many people and few surnames in our country, if we adopt double names, if we avoid using fashionable words and cliches, the probability of duplicate names is very low. Judging from the aesthetic effect, double names have incomparable advantages, whether it is the collocation of glyphs, the harmony of pronunciation or the tempering of meaning, at least it has much more room for choice than single names.
for a big country with a population of more than one billion, it is necessary to completely avoid duplicate names.