In ancient times, naming after birth was a very popular way of naming, mainly naming the child after the place of birth, naming after the parents’ place of origin, and naming after the place of ancestral home to express commemoration and nostalgia. . So now I will tell you about the specific methods and techniques of naming according to places, let’s take a look! Details 01
Introduction to naming according to place of birth
Our country is a vast country with 56 ethnic groups living everywhere except for a few uninhabited places. Brothers and sisters, of course, new people are born everywhere every day. Because the place where a child is born has its own name: for small ones, there are delivery rooms, hospitals, families, communities, streets, and villages; for large ones, there are provinces, cities, counties, townships, mountains, forests, rivers, zes, rivers, Rivers, lakes, seas, even nations, countries, continents, worlds, planets, universes, these numerous names or their nicknames and variations can also be used to name. And, if we use it properly, we will come up with a unique and memorable name. Naming a child after the place of birth is actually a very ancient method. For example, Confucius, who is revered as the "Holy Master", had his real name Kongqiu and his courtesy name Zhongni. Both his name and character came from Niqiu Mountain in the southeast of his hometown Qufu. In this case, naming after a mountain near his birthplace is based on the place of birth. One of the more common naming methods. In addition, in ancient times, our country also had the habit of calling people by their place of birth. Under the influence of this habit, some people's original names were rarely known, and this kind of title almost became a common name. This kind of name is actually a special phenomenon of naming after the place of birth. For example, Emperor Yan, one of the ancestors of Chinese humanities, is also called Lieshan clan or Lishan clan, which means that he is the leader of Lieshan or Lishan area. , Lieshan or Lishan here is the place name of his hometown, and when people mention Lieshan or Lishan, they still know that they are referring to him, and it is another name for him. People unintentionally He was named after his hometown. Similarly, it is said that the Yellow Emperor lived in Xuanyuan Hill, also known as the Xuanyuan family. The Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Jiuling was born in Qujiang, Shaozhou (now Shaoguan, Guangdong), and was also known as Zhang Qujiang in history; Liu Zongyuan, a writer of the dynasty, was from Hedong (now Yongji, Shanxi), and was known as Liu Hedong; Wang Anshi, a politician in the Northern Song Dynasty, lived in Linchuan (now Jiangxi), and was known as Wang Linchuan; Zhang, a statesman in the Ming Dynasty, was originally from Jiangling (now Jiangling District, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province) , known as Zhang Jiangling; the Ming Dynasty dramatist Tang Xianzu was a fellow villager of Wang Anshi, and was also known as Tang Linchuan; the modern reformer Kang Youwei was born in Nanhai, Guangdong (now Zhongshan City), and was known as Kang Nanhai 02
The above names are all related to. Their birthplaces are related. In fact, they can be regarded as names derived from their birthplaces, but the time of naming was not when they were born. As for people in ancient times, they were used as officials or lived abroad or were exiled. The names of these places are consistent with each other. Although these places are not their birthplaces, they are also names derived from place names. This is an approximate case of naming after their birthplace. For example, Kong Rongyin, a writer in the Han Dynasty, served as the prime minister of Beihai. He is known as Kong Beihai; the great poet Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty once served as Peng Zeling, known as Tao Pengze; the poet Xie Tiao of the Southern Dynasties once served as the prefect of Xuancheng, known as Xie Xuancheng; the poet Wei Yingwu of the Tang Dynasty once served in Suzhou, known as Wei Suzhou; the frontier poet Cen Shen of the Tang Dynasty once served in Jiazhou, known as Cen Jiazhou; and so on, are all the same. Naming a child based on his place of birth, and the names derived from it, actually account for a high proportion of people’s names today, even the names of many celebrities. , Liu Taihang, Wei Jingsheng, Chen Luyu, Qin Jin, Huanghe, Pan Changjiang, Jinggang Mountain and other names, almost all of them are related to the place of birth or place name. The names come from the two rivers near his hometown, Moshui and Ruoshui. Liu Taihang's name. Because he was born in the Taihang Mountains, Wei Jingsheng's name shows that he was born in Beijing. Chen Luyu's name comes from the abbreviations of his parents' ancestral homelands of Shandong and Henan. The name Qin Jin comes from the fact that his parents are from Shaanxi (Qin for short) and Shanxi (Jin for short) ) people, the names of the Yellow River and Pan Changjiang are derived from the names of the two rivers in my country, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. The name of Jinggang Mountain is obviously influenced by the revolutionary holy land Jinggang Mountain. In fact, there are many other names like this, and we can see from them that. The names of places of birth are also diverse. Due to the complexity of the situation, and the fact that the place of birth is sometimes also called the place of origin, this method of naming based on the place of birth can be further divided into three situations: naming based on the place of birth, naming based on the place of birth, and naming based on the combination of place of birth and place of birth.
Among them, naming based on birthplace in this sense actually only refers to the place of birth. The sources of the names of Liu Taihang and others mentioned above all fall into this situation. 03
Methods of naming babies after place names
1. Naming the child after the place of birth indicates the scope of the birthplace, which can be divided into large or small, such as the family, hospital, village, or birthplace Counties, cities, and provinces can borrow names to name their children. Such as Beijing students, Guangdong students, Taiwan students, etc.
2. Named after the parents’ place of origin. This name is basically a format, inheriting the father’s or mother’s surname and taking the abbreviation of the parents’ place of origin. Therefore, a name named after the parents' place of origin is easily identifiable at a glance. For example: Wang Luxiang (Shandong and Hunan) Guan Jingyue (Beijing and Guangdong) (Shanghai and Nanjing) Liu Exiang (Hubei and Hunan) Li Shuqin (Sichuan and Shaanxi) Sun Qiandian (Guizhou and Yunnan)
3. Based on ancestral home Some children are named after their parents' ancestral home and relatives' place of origin to express their longing for their hometown and relatives. For example: During the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War in the Qing Dynasty, he lost his troops in the battle against Japan and reluctantly ceded Taiwan. When the Japanese invaded and occupied Taiwan, Taiwanese Qiu Fengjia rose up to lead the independence movement, but was frustrated by violence and ended up in a disastrous defeat. He left the island in tears. After Qiu returned to the mainland, his wife gave birth to a child. She named her "Nian Tai" to express that she would never forget her hometown. Unexpectedly, 50 years later, the Japanese invaders reaped the consequences and Taiwan returned to the embrace of China. Qiu Niantai really returned to Taiwan. Mr. Qiu Even though your bones are cold, your face is still full of smiles.
4. Name places with special significance. Some places have special meaning to children and parents, and they can also be named as a mark of commemoration. For example: the nickname Fusong, Exing's "Fu Ming Dynasty" says: "Because it was born under the pines, it was named Fusong." Another example is the famous national hero's nickname Fusong. It is said that he was born under the pines. name. The original name of Zuo Lian writer Rou Shi was Zhao Pingfu, because there was a "Jinshui Rou" in the west of Haining County, Zhejiang Province.