As a famous novel in China, the influence of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is very far-reaching, and the author Luo Guanzhong portrayed many vivid and vivid characters in the book, which are still known and loved by future generations. When readers read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, they may find that almost all the names of the characters in the book are single characters, so are there people with two words?
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is based on the history of the main history, so most of the characters in it are real historical figures. So first of all, let's understand why almost all the characters of the Three Kingdoms are single-word names. In fact, this is related to Wang Mang, a famous usurper and founder of the new dynasty between the two Han Dynasties.
In the second year of Yuan Shou (1 BC), the Han Emperor died, and the powerful Wang Mang chose Liu Jizi, the grandson of the nine-year-old Han Yuan Emperor, to succeed him, but Wang Mang thought that Liu Jizi's name was inappropriate, so he changed it to Liu Yan. Wang Mang thinks
"Qin used to reinstate his name as a widow, so he banned the reinstatement."
Compound names are two-character names, and Wang Mang believed that there were very few people who used double-character names before the Qin Dynasty, so he simply banned double-character names.
In the Western Han Dynasty, there were many more people using two-character names than before the Qin Dynasty, and the more famous ones were Huo Fuyi, the famous general Huo Zhiyi, who quelled the "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms", and Liu Fuling, the Han Xuan Emperor who created the "Zhaoxuan Zhongxing", etc. After Wang Mang's prohibition, not only at that time, but also in the Eastern Han And Wei and Jin dynasties, there were very few two-character names, until the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi, Gu Kaizhi, and even Chen Qingzhi, Zu Chongzhi and other two-character names in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
According to the Book of the Former Han Dynasty:
"Shi Mang ordered that there should be no two in China, because the messenger should be singled out by the wind, and it is advisable to write to Muhua, and for one, Han will be rewarded generously." From it alone. ”
That is to say, he not only promoted the single-character name in the Central Plains, but also sent emissaries to the Xiongnu, suggesting that Shan Yu also promote it in the Xiongnu. At that time, the Xiongnu were very powerful, so Shan Yu wrote to the subject, and changed his name "Nang Zhi Yasi" to the single word "Zhi" to show respect for Wang Mang.
In view of Wang Mang's policy of banning double names, most of the figures in the Three Kingdoms period were also single-character names. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the two-character names that exist have different reasons. When Zhuge Liang's southern conquest of Meng, there were transliterated names of ethnic minorities such as The Southern Barbarians, such as Ohe Yaoge and Dong Dina, but the tribes of the Southern Barbarians had their own language, so the author does not regard them as two-character names here.
Liu Bei was once entrusted by his uncle Dong Chengzhi to receive the "Edict of clothing" that conspired to kill Cao Cao and restore the Han Dynasty. Among those who planned this together was a minister named Prince Fu. However, according to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms:
"Cheng Sui conspired with Liu Bei, but before he could do so, he would prepare to go on a campaign, and Cheng even conspired with the partial general Wang Fu, the Lieutenant Zhongji of Changshui School, and Wu Shuo of The Huilang."
It can be seen that the original name of the prince's costume is actually the king's costume, and the prince's costume should be a fallacy in Luo Guanzhong.
Similar to Wang Zifu, there is Hu Che'er, who killed Dianwei during Zhang Xiu's rebellion, where "Hu" should be a term representing ethnic minority origin, and Che'er is a transliteration of ethnic minority names. In the process of Lü Meng's attack and killing of Guan Yu, Fu Shiren, who surrendered to Eastern Wu, was also in the history books
"Shiren character Junyi, Guangyang people also."
It can be seen that Fu was added by Luo Guan, and his real name was Shi Ren.
There are no errors in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the characters who are still two-character names in the history books include Guo Youzhi, the minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, Ma Ribao, the Eastern Han Dynasty taifu, and Zhang Shiping, a merchant who gave financial support when Liu Bei first raised an army. After all, after the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, single-character names were only a habit, not a coercive measure.