Taboos in naming
With the development of Feng Shui fortune-telling culture, the ancients also paid more and more attention to the connection between "good fortune" and "good name". Many people's names began to be quoted from classics, such as "Liu Rushi" was taken from "I saw how charming the green mountains were, and I expected that the green mountains would be like this when they saw me." ?Gongzi Fusu is taken from ?There is Fusu in the mountains, and there are lotus flowers in the west. Since then, there has been a series of taboos. The first and most important thing is to avoid the name of the ruler. Secondly, it is said in "Book of Rites? Qu Li Shang", "A person's name is not based on the country, nor the sun and the moon. Not after hidden diseases, not after mountains and rivers. "The person named cannot be named after the country, mountains, rivers, sun and moon, let alone the disease.
Of course, this is only a stipulation in the "Book of Rites". With the development of the times, there are more and more taboo entries on naming. As a rule, animals cannot be named after animals, and weapons and coins cannot be named after them. Lu Guimeng of the Tang Dynasty recorded in "Little Name List": People in Zhou Dynasty used taboo to worship gods, so their names will eventually be kept taboo. There is also the most special thing, which is very popular today. In the eyes of ancient women, it was unavoidable. In the eyes of people at that time, people with low status were given names. Generally, concubines and brothel girls had two names. For example, the concubine of Yuan Zhen was named "Yingying", and the famous Qinhuai prostitute was named "Chen Yuanyuan". Reading a woman's double name gives men a sense of pleasure. Of course, men cannot have double names. After that, there were gradually requirements on pronunciation. Generally, the names were named with "double-syllable rhyme". In modern terms, two characters in a two-syllable word have the same initial consonant in Chinese Pinyin, such as Liu Xiyi and Shen Jiji.
The ancients also used popular words in their names
Nowadays, words like 子?梓?汉? are very common in names. Interestingly, there were also popular words in ancient times. For example, Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, which sounds good now. That's because during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the word "?" was particularly favored in naming. The same ones are Pei Songzhi and Kou Qianzhi. In addition, the word "Seng" was also very popular at that time. There was a general in Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties named Wang Sengbian, and the doctor of Emperor Wu of Liang was named Yao Sengyuan. Most of these names were influenced by the social environment at that time.
After the big trend of "Zi Han" and "Zixuan" has gradually passed, the current naming trend has begun to move closer to the retro style of "Ci of Chu for men" and "Book of Songs for women". Generally speaking, the name is just a code name given to a good intention, and it is really far-fetched to really connect it with destiny. But a nice and meaningful name can indeed make people’s eyes brighter.