Some of the restricted areas of names are established by social conventions, while others are restricted by the meaning of Chinese characters. Some are artificial and legal, and some are subordinate to the social concepts and aesthetic consciousness of the namer. In our country, name avoidance has a long history and is passed down from generation to generation. According to scholars' research, taboos originated in the Zhou Dynasty. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the taboo system became increasingly complete. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the taboo system was extremely strict. During the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns of the Qing Dynasty, the taboo system became even more stringent. "Zuo Zhuan" records that when Duke Heng of Lu was naming the prince, he consulted the minister Shen Confucianism. The Confucian scholar told him not to use the name of the country, the name of the mountain and river, the name of the official position, the name of the disease, the name of the animal, the name of the currency, because these things They are closely related to people's lives, and naming them after these things will bring inconvenience to their lives. It can be seen that the taboo of names may have existed in ancient China during the long period of ignorant history before the Zhou Dynasty. A name is a symbol of a person. Generally speaking, a person's name can be chosen at will, and anyone can call it whatever they want. But in fact, this degree of freedom is within a certain range; beyond this range, it is a "forbidden zone". Due to taboos, many people in history had their names changed. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was famous among the people, so Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was renamed "Avalokitesvara". "Tongbu" Shangshu was renamed "Hubu" Shangshu. In the Tang Dynasty, to avoid the taboo of Li Yuan, the great ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, Tao Quanming, the great poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Even the name of a general state official must be avoided by the local people. When Tian was a state official, the people were not allowed to say "lamp". During the Lantern Festival, every household had to put out lanterns, so they had to say "set fire", so there was "Only the state officials are allowed to set fires, but the common people are not allowed to light lamps" is a famous saying. In ancient times, people suffered a lot because of avoiding taboos. Because of the taboo, many people at that time were forced to change their names. Kuai Che, a famous minister in the Han Dynasty, had to change his name to Kuai Tong because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was called Liu Che; Wei Chun in the Tang Dynasty changed his name to Wei Guanzhi to avoid Tang Xianzong Li Chun's taboo; Wang Yuzhi of the Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty committed an offense against Emperor Wu Liu Yu The taboo was changed to Wang Jinghong; Zhao Yin of the Northern Qi Dynasty changed his name to Zhao Yanshen to avoid the taboo of Gao Yin, the sixth ancestor of Shenwu Emperor Gao Huan. From a historical and cultural perspective, Chinese subjects in the feudal era were influenced by the undercurrent of historical consciousness and had a superstitious motive for names. They believed that naming the emperors and ancestors was a blasphemy and contempt for them.