1 Japan: A naming ceremony is held on the night of the seventh day after the child is born, called "Go Seven Nights". This is a Japanese custom.
In the "Yu Qiye" ceremony, the child's father first unfolded a very refined hanging scroll, with the child's name written in regular script with a calligraphy brush, and Japanese phonetic notation next to the Chinese characters. . The father then explains the meaning of the name and the motivation behind the naming. The excitement of becoming a father for the first time often draws rounds of applause from the participants. Then everyone toasted and blessed, said many auspicious words, and finally took many commemorative photos.
Japan has various special dictionaries and dictionaries for naming. There are special counters in libraries and bookstores. At the same time, there is also a saying that the name is based on the birth date, yin and yang, the five elements, and the addition and subtraction of strokes. There is a saying that naming animals after animals will ensure that children will be healthy and free from illness and disaster, so there are names for bears, tigers, cattle, sheep, horses and dogs of all kinds. Another naming convention. It is said that babies with dystocia, especially those with umbilical cord wrapped around their neck, are most auspicious to be named Kasaya. Because the umbilical cord is wrapped around the neck like a monk's cassock is wrapped around the body. The Japanese word cassock has the same pronunciation as "Jin Chao", so most children named "Jin Chao" have experienced unnatural births. 2 Tibetans: After the child is one month old, choose an auspicious day to hold a leaving ceremony. On this day, children have to change their clothes and usually go out from home and walk eastward for good luck. Some people go to the temple to worship Buddha on the first day, with the purpose of praying to the Buddha to bless their newborns for a safe life. When a child goes out for the first time, a little black ash from the bottom of a pot is often rubbed on the tip of the baby's nose, which means that the baby will not be noticed by the devil when he goes out.
In the past, when common people asked for a name from a living Buddha or lama, there was no special ceremony. They only had to present a khata and a few taels of Tibetan silver to the living Buddha or eminent monk to indicate the gender of the baby. Nobles and other upper-class people often take babies to offer hair to the living Buddha. The living Buddha cuts off a small portion of the baby's top hair to symbolize the tonsure, and then gives it an auspicious name. If a child becomes a monk (or a layman) when he grows up, he still needs to be ordained again by eminent monks such as Khenpo, Wengze or Living Buddha to take the Dharma name. When naming their children, living Buddhas and khenpos often add two characters from their own names to the baby's name. For example, if the living Buddha's name is "Ngawang Chilie", he will name the child "Ngawang Dundup", "Ngawang Dolma" or "Trilie Langjie", "Trilie Quzhen" and other names. But there are also those who just give it a random name without the ingredients of their own name. In Tibetan towns and rural areas, it is more common to ask living Buddhas and lamas to be named. Therefore, names in towns and rural areas have more obvious religious overtones than names in pastoral areas. 3 Myanmar: Myanmar people have no surname. They usually add an article in front of their name to indicate their gender, age, identity and status. Young men call themselves "Maung" (Maung, meaning younger brother) to show their modesty. They also call them "Maung" to younger people or teenagers, and "Ko" (meaning older brother) to their peers or elders. To elders, they may have status. People who are older are called "Wu" (U, meaning uncle). For example, a man named "Aung Gyi" will be called "Maung Aung Gyi", "Ko Aung Gyi" or "Wu Aung Gyi" as his age and status change. U Aung Gyi).
In addition, there are also people who use "Thakin" (meaning master), "Bo" (meaning officer), and "YeBo" (YeBo, meaning *) before their names. *), "SaYar" (meaning teacher and doctor).
Myanmar women, regardless of whether they are married or not, usually add "Ma" (Ma) before their names to express modesty; they also call them "Ma" (meaning girl) for younger people or peers, and they also call them "Ma" (meaning girl) for elders or older people. Those with higher status are called "Daw" (meaning aunt, aunt, aunt). For example, there is a woman named "Tan Min". Depending on her age and social status, people can call her "Ma Tan Min" or "Daw Tan Min". , she calls herself "Ma Tan Min".
According to statistics, the total number of characters used by Burmese people in naming is less than 100. Use these characters to piece together and choose the one with smooth and pleasant sound. Therefore, many Burmese people have the same name. To show the difference, they often add their place of origin, work unit, and professional name before or after their names.
4 France Looking at the world, I am least interested in French names. After hundreds of years of evolution, they have become named for the sake of naming, although there is some meaning. , lacks new ideas, and has been completely transformed into a name. A name that lacks meaning is like a body without a soul. How boring it is. This is related to the history and folk customs of France. There is an unwritten rule in France that does not allow people to freely choose and create their own names, so people commonly use only one "hundred family names". According to different eras, some names disappeared, others reappeared, and some were supplemented by absorbing some names from European and American countries. Many French dictionaries have a large list of names in the appendix. This seems to be a range for people to choose names. It is like the eight-part essay test for officials in ancient China. You can only choose from a certain range, so there are too many names. of the same name. Too many namesakes have brought many ironic troubles to daily life, and their disadvantages are self-evident. 5 Africa: When the Nandi people, a nomadic people located on the Uganda-Kenya border, go out to fight in the war, no one in their hometown can ask for soldiers. names, and they must be called by the names of the birds. If any child forgets this taboo and blurts out the name of a distant warrior, his mother scolds: "Don't talk about those birds in the sky!"If the Bangarra people of the Congo are fishing or fishing When he returns, his name will be temporarily unused and no one is allowed to mention it. No matter what the fisherman's real name was, people indiscriminately called him "Mwell". The reason is that there are elves everywhere in the river. If they hear the fisherman's real name, they will play tricks on the fisherman, causing him to catch nothing or little. Even if a fisherman catches a fish and brings it ashore, the buyer cannot call him by his real name when he sells it, because if the elves hear the fisherman's real name at this moment, they will remember it and punish him or damage the fish he caught in the future. It cannot be sold for a good price. Therefore, if a fisherman is seriously harmed by anyone who calls his name, he can ask the person who accidentally called his name to buy his fish at a better price as compensation.
The Lugbara people of the Ugandan tribe are very particular about the mother naming their newborns. The names they choose are also very interesting. They often express the behavior and character of both or one of the parents, such as: "Laziness" "" means the parents are lazy; "in the beer glass" means the father is an alcoholic; "not giving" means that the meal prepared by the mother for her husband is too poor. Most of these names are not complimentary to the parents, and often even imply the neglect, bad conduct, low social status and material lack of one or both parents. For example, "evil witch", "supporting wife", "no relatives and friends", "poor man", "starving", etc. are all personal names. The names of the local Baniolo people are often associated with death, sadness, Poverty, neighbor hatred and other themes are related.
There is a well-known fairy tale in Africa, which describes a story about naming: A mother gave birth to 6 sons in succession. After they grew up, they traveled together and didn't come back for a long time. Their mother was anxious and worried, but there was nothing she could do. Later, the mother gave birth to her seventh son. Because he happened to fall next to the mother's thumb when he was born, he was named "Thumb".
I have a distant relative who worked in Tanzania. According to him, people there like to be named after their official positions such as "major" and "minister". Once he asked a young man his name, but the young man said: "Goodbye." He was stunned. He met a girl on the road and asked her name. She said: "Hello." He replied: "Thank you, what is your name?" The girl said again: "Hello." He repeated this several times. , he suddenly realized. It turns out that "goodbye" and "hello" are both names.
A friend of mine taught in the Congo, and many of his students had strange names. There is one named "Pain", who was born out of difficulty by his mother; another named "Voice", whose mother just heard the whistle of a train in the distance when he landed; and one named "Guinea Fowl" because they are twins.
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