In addition to Shi Jingqian, there are actually many foreigners Chinese names are very interesting

Author | Such as the owner of one square

Source | Confucius old book network APP dynamics

In the past few days, due to the death of sinologist Shi Jingqian, many introductory articles have appeared dynamically. In addition to the introduction of his life and related writings, I paid special attention to the origin of his name.

While studying at Yale University, Shi Jingqian, also known as Jonathan D. Spense, had just turned his interests to Chinese history, studying Qing Dynasty history with Mary Rui (a student of Fairbank). Mary Rui introduced him to Mr. Fang Zhaoyao, an expert in Chinese historiography in Australia, and it was Mr. Fang who gave him the name "Shi Jingqian", which can be said to be of great significance, "history", both from the history of "history", is his research direction, but also pays tribute to the great Chinese historian Sima Qian and his work "Shi Ji", and this name and his personality and achievements are ultimately as he once said, "Even if my book looks a bit like what people call a popular book, But I always provide readers with a professional and in-depth reading list, telling them where to go next, hoping that they will be able to develop their own interests. I want to inspire people's desire to learn more about China. "A foreigner uses his own Chinese name to pin his ideals and visions on himself.

Why the name Shi Jingqian is so impressive, in fact, is that I thought of reading a public account push last year, taking stock of what names Chinese favorite children have in the past two years. The first ten boys are: Zi Rui, Yu Xuan, Zi Xuan, Zi Hao, Jun Yu, Jun Xuan, Zi Lang, Haoran, and eleven to twenty, full of eyes, and see three "Zi", four "Yu", two "Jun", and several homophonous "Hao", "Hao"... The girl's name did not hide from "Zi", the first twenty actually had six "Zi", and then three "Qing", resulting in the name "Zi Qing" must be the first! The rest is also very concentrated, especially the characters next to the wang character occupy most of the country, such as Qi, Yao, Yu, Lin, Yue. You can try to arrange and combine, such as Zi Lin, Zi Yu, Zi Qi, Zi Yao... There is a high probability that the leaderboard will not be made.

Recently, Douyin also has a lot of funny videos about duplicate names, "how high is the repetition rate after 00", "There were too many students with duplicate names in your class" and other titles flooded the screen, just saw it and thought it was really funny, after watching it, it was a little sad, not to mention the Chinese civilization for thousands of years, poetry, Chu Ci, Han Fu, Tang poetry, Song Ci, Yuan Qu, so thick cultural heritage precipitated to now, give the baby a name, the signed one actually can't hide twenty or thirty Chinese characters, and many are homophones, is it ridiculous, It's a pity and a pity.

In fact, in addition to the name Shi Jingqian, there are actually many "old foreigners" Chinese names are very meaningful and impressive.

For example, Han Chun and Yang Zhao. Han Chun is "the first person to get a green card in China", and more people remember her because she is also the granddaughter of Voynich, the author of the novel "Bullfly". In the early 1940s, she was one of the few female scientists in the "Manhattan Project" of the US atomic bomb manufacturing program, and she had been an assistant to Fermi, a well-known Nuclear Physicist in the United States, and a classmate of Yang Zhenning; she participated in the development of the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and when the black mushroom cloud lifted off, her colleagues sighed: "This is the bones and flesh of the Japanese!" This made Han Chun give up his dream of being a pure scientist. In 1948, Han Chun followed her fiancé Yang early to Yan'an, China. For more than 60 years, the husband and wife sang with the woman, and the two dedicated their lives to China's dairy cattle cause: promoting China's cattle mechanization and cattle breeding improvement. Among them, the "direct-cooled milk tank" has filled the domestic gap; "dairy farm complete set of equipment development, cattle farm design and China experimental project" has been promoted and applied in many dairy farms across the country, and has taken the lead in realizing the mechanization of dairy cattle breeding in China.

Although the early spring is cold, the sunrise is warm. I believe that such a name has power.

There is also the sinologist Fei Zhengqing.

Fairbank, known in English as John King Fairbank, is an authentic American, famous American sinologist, historian, professor at Harvard University, and founder of the Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University. Fairbank's name is Liang Sicheng, and the three words correspond to Fairbank, John and King in the real name, which means a person with the surname Fei, integrity and incorruptibility. Liang Sicheng also told him: "Using such a Chinese name, you can really be regarded as a Chinese." "If you don't understand this history, do many people think that Fairbank is a pure and pure Chinese?"

There is also a foreigner's Chinese name, a bit of a story, called "Jiang Senhai", an authentic British who has settled in Beijing since 1993, and the owner of "Band-Aid 8" in Nanluoguxiang. In 2003, I used to live in an alley very close to Nanluo, I didn't have anything to love and Mr. Zhou string hutongs, string to Nanluo will go to this shop to see, the name of the shop is very special, so I remembered it at once, the window is also very novel, are nostalgic some nostalgic patterns, Mr. Zhou sees that it often triggers a large wave of memory killing. Later, after reading some reports, I learned that the boss was actually a British named Dominic Johnson-Hill, and Jiang Senhai was both a transliteration of Johnson-Hill, and a similar paraphrase, Chinese understood as a big river, rushing forward, through the mangy forest, and finally pouring into the meaning of the vast sea, this image seems to condense the man's life, and it is also an alternative footnote to his creative cultural undertaking of "Band-Aid 8".

From various reports, we can also see that many foreigners are very good at a Chinese style, shape and meaning of the Chinese name, such as Patten, Han Desheng, Gao Benhan, Han Suyin, etc., what else can book friends think of, and welcome to leave a message to me.

So much is just to say that the matter of naming names has developed to the present, and it is no longer necessary to have a number and cite scriptures, and it is so difficult to say that there are thousands of Chinese characters that cannot find better words than "Zi", "Xuan", "Jun", "Hao" or "Qing", "Yao", "Xin", and "Yue"?

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