China, with its thousands of years of history, has always inherited many customs, which exist in all aspects of life, although it seems cumbersome, but it holds people's good wishes.
As far as the matter of picking up the name is concerned, Chinese is very particular. People think that naming a name is the first major event in life, and whether the name is good or not will directly affect a person's fate.
In order to make future generations have a good life, people have thought of many ways, such as to let the elders of high moral standing, the meaning of the name should be beautiful, and sometimes it will be linked to the metaphysics such as the eight characters of the birthday or the five elements, which can bring good luck to the newborn and drive away evil.
Interestingly, from the matter of naming, we can also see the attitude of the elders to the younger generations. Because people are generally extra cautious when naming children who pay more attention to them, as for those who don't care too much, the name is very arbitrary.
The Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was a self-proclaimed emperor of both literature and martial arts, he lived a smooth life, did not experience too many storms, was very dashing and wanton, all day in addition to admiring flowers and paintings, is to tour the mountains and rivers, is the object of envy of countless people.
The rather confident Qianlong Emperor was very fond of dancing and ink, and loved to write poems on weekdays, writing more than 40,000 poems in his lifetime, and the output was very amazing. Unfortunately, most of these poems are of poor quality, and few people have heard of them.
In addition to writing poetry, the Qianlong Emperor was also keen to name his children, and he gave his favorite grandson a twelve-character name, which he himself was quite satisfied with, but he made posterity laugh for a long time.
This lucky imperial grandson, who was able to get the name of the emperor's grandfather himself, was the eldest son of Princess Gulun and Princess Jing, Qianlong's favorite. This princess was born to Empress Fucha, and although Qianlong was affectionate, she truly loved Empress Fucha. Unfortunately, she died early, and Qianlong had to transfer his love for her to the two children.
Princess Gulun and Princess Jing grew up under qianlong's honey pet, married to Mongolia when they grew up, and gave birth to a big fat boy after a long time, but the Qianlong Emperor was happy.
The Qianlong Emperor had many heirs, and naturally there was no shortage of grandchildren, but he could not take them as ordinary for the children born to his most favored daughter, and after rewarding him with many good things, he felt that it was not enough, and decided to personally name his grandson.
It is a great honor to let the emperor's grandfather give his name, which is something that many emperors and grandchildren dare not think about. However, Qianlong, a half-hanging literati, really did not dare to compliment, and although the name he took meant good, it was really funny to translate.
In view of the fact that the horses were Mongols, the name qianlong gave to his grandson was also a Mongolian name, called "Orzhe Yitemur Erkbabai", and the number of words in a name was as high as 12, which was really rare.
What is even funnier is the meaning of the name, "Orezheyi" means blessed, "Timur" means youshou, "Erke" means iron, "Babai" means baby, and together they are blessed and long-lived iron baby. Some netizens also carefully simplified it, known as "Fushou Iron Egg".
It seems that the Qianlong Emperor is not only not good at writing poetry, but also taking a name is also a shortcoming.