Not long ago, the Household Administration Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security released the "2021 National Name Report".
Among them, the boys named "Muchen" the most, almost every 1,000 boys have 5 "Muchen"; Girls are called "Wakashio" the most, and about 4 out of 1,000 girls can be "Wakashio".
Among them, "Mo Mo" is the first time to enter the top 10 female names, and it is also a name that makes Ah Xin most confused.
Turning the dictionary, I found that "苡" reads yǐ, which means "coix", and the groupable words "苡米" and "苡仁" all mean "coix".
Mom and dad want to show affection in the child's name, even if you use the name of "XiangFu to foam", why do you have to add a cursive word, it is difficult to choose a strange word?
In fact, naming is really a very exquisite thing. Many of the literary works we have read, the names contain the ingenuity of the author.
For example, the "Zhen Shiyin", "Jia Yu Village", "Yuan Ying Tan Xie" sisters in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Another example is Jin Yong's pen, Cheng Lingsu, who is named after the two medical books "Lingshu" and "Su Qing"; the name is taken from the "official CP" of the "Tao Te Ching"- Ren Yingying and Ling Huchong; while Lin Pingzhi of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" and You Tanzhi in "Tianlong Babu", although the names are "Pingzhi" and "Tanzhi", their lives are exactly the opposite...
It sounds quite simple, but when it comes to taking a name, many people may find that it is really too difficult to take a name that is good, cultural, and not easy to rename!
The name that I came up with after turning over a Xinhua dictionary is on the same level as the "novel name generator" on the Internet.
So, how did people get named before? Is there anything we can learn from?
Today, Ashin wants to tell you about the history of names.
The name of a person in romance of the Three Kingdoms
How come they are all one-word names?
I don't know if after watching "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" when you were a child, will you have such a question: How come the names of the characters here are all two words? If there is a three-character name, it must be because he is a compound surname of Zhuge Ge, Sima and so on.
This is really not an illusion. According to statistics, the proportion of single-character names among the characters recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms is as high as 98% and 99%.
Why?
One of the reasons comes from the ancient tradition of "avoiding secrecy" on the mainland. On the one hand, "avoidance" is to show status and inferiority, and on the other hand, it is also to protect oneself from the harm of "witchcraft".
Literati will also avoid it through the lack of writing when writing, for example, the "yuan" in Ouyang's "Thousand Character Text" is missing the "rice" in the middle.
The tradition of the pre-Qin era was still only to avoid death; in the two Han Dynasties, there were more and more places that needed to be avoided, which caused a lot of inconvenience.
At this time, a single word name can reduce a lot of trouble. Just like Emperor Han Zhao, changing a "Fu" character from "Fuling" to a list is "difficult to hide in two names".
For the scholar class, in addition to the imperial name, they also need to avoid the family secrets such as fathers and ancestors. Therefore, the single name soon formed a cultural habit that swept the country.
The Tang Dynasty poet Li He, because his father's name "Jinsu" and "Jinshi" are homophonous, were banned from taking the jinshi examination on the grounds of "avoiding his father's secrets", and his career was frustrated.
In addition to avoiding secrets, Wang Mang's retro reforms also affected everyone's willingness to take names.
At that time, according to the "two indecent names" in the "Ram Biography" and "the Spring and Autumn Period", the scribes believed that the single-character name was in line with the ancient rites. After Wang Mang usurped the throne, he issued a special edict "ordering China not to have two names" in particular.
As a result, single-character names became the naming trend of the Confucian clan in this period.
Wang Xizhi, Wang Ningzhi, Wang Xianzhi...
How are they all "Zigzag"?
In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the direction of the wind of naming changed again, and under the fashion of "teaching more than one name and letting nature go", there was no market for the Confucian theory of "ridiculing the second name".
Friends who are familiar with history will find that there were also several very popular names used at that time. For example, the mathematician is called Zu Chongzhi, the painter is called Gu Kaizhi, and the historian is called Pei Songzhi, from Wang Xizhi to his many grandchildren, the Langya Wang clan has:
Feast, Allow, Xi, Yi, Hu, Xuan, Ning, Hui, Fu, Xian, Ugly, Yu, Jing, Zhen, Yue, Biao, Wei, Xiu, Yan, Public Opinion...
The qushui flow in the picture book "Orchid Pavilion Preface"
Five generations of the family share a "zigzag", at this time, why don't they shy away from it?
According to Chen Yinke's research, adding the word "Zigzag" to the name is related to the Wudou Rice Road that was popular at that time. In this type of name, "zhi" represents the belief tendency of the namer, which is only a virtual word and has no substantive meaning, so there is no need to avoid it.
The Wang family is a loyal believer in Zhang Daoling's Wudou Rice Dao, and the "Biography of Wang Xi in the Book of Jin" records: "Wang's world affair Zhang's Wudou Rice Dao. ”
The Jade Wang Xizhi Love Goose in the Forbidden City Courtyard depicts the story of Wang Xizhi and the Taoist priests, writing for the goose.
To what extent is it believed?
When Wang Xizhi's second son and Xie Daoyun's husband Wang Ningzhi was in charge of Huiji Neishi, Sun En rebelled and besieged Huiji City, but he not only did not set up troops to guard the palace, but also told his subordinates with a determined face: I have prayed to the Heavenly Master for help! The rebels will soon be self-defeating without a fight.
Of course, everyone who has been educated in historical materialism understands that there has never been any savior, and the result of abandoning resistance is, of course, only the destruction of the city and the death of the people.
Ironically, Sun En is actually a Taoist priest of the "Five Buckets of Rice Dao". After his death, many people with "zhi" in their names were implicated, and this is the last word.
In addition to the "zigzag", "Tao", "Tan", "Ling", "Monk" and other imaginary characters with religious meanings, there are also religious gods and magic instruments, which are often used to take names.
So, we can see:
Wang Shenglang, Wang Shenglang, Yao Shengyuan, Cui Shenghuo, Wang Tanshou, Xun Tan, Li Qutan, Yao Sidda, Yin Fantong, Yao Bodhi, Xiao Moxuan, Cui Mulian...
Later, Taoism and Buddhism began to be suppressed by secular regimes, and this trend of naming naturally gradually declined.
Xiao Shi Yi Lang and Leap Earth
Where do the names come from?
Another tradition left by the family clans during the Wei and Jin dynasties was the genealogy of the lineage.
As the clan grows larger and larger, it becomes a very convenient choice to straighten out the relationship between generations and make a symbol on the name of the person.
In the beginning, people used the partial head to represent the same generation, but the number of partial parts was limited, so the nomenclature we were familiar with appeared: the common word to identify the generation.
After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was a fashion of calling Xingdi.
Therefore, we see that the poem written by Han Yu to Zhang Yuan is called "Early Spring Presenting the Eighteen Members of the Water Department zhang eighteen members";
The sacrifice of the nephew is the "Sacrifice of the Twelve Lang Texts";
Du Fu admired Li Twelve Niang's sword dance and wrote "Guan Gongsun Grand Niang's Disciple Dance Sword Instrument Line";
Drinking with Friends with Li Bai is "Looking for Fan Ten Hermitage with Li Twelve Whites"...
Li Bai in Assassin's Creed: Dynasty
Therefore, Ah Xin can also reasonably talk nonsense and doubt, Gu Long's Xiao Shiyilang, Feng Siniang, Yan Thirteen, Zhu Qiqi, these numerical nomenclatures, all come from his preference for the Tang Dynasty!
We know that in addition to the nomenclature of characters and the nomenclature of numbers, there is a very common method of naming in life, that is, the five-element symbiosis method!
For example, everyone's good friend in middle school:
"I had heard the name Leap Earth earlier, and I knew that he and I were as old as each other, born in leap months, and the Five Elements lacked soil, so his father called him Leap Earth."
This style of naming was actually carried forward in the Song Dynasty.
In this era of great development of science, readers began to play the "science of elephant numbers", and the theory of the five elements of yin and yang was also applied to the field of names.
Therefore, according to the theory of the five elements of symbiosis, the father's name is Zhu Song, the pine belongs to the wood, and the wood is fire, and his son is called Zhu Xi (Xi means light and hot).
The father's name is Qin Juniper, and the wood makes fire, and his son is called Qin Xi; the fire is born of the earth, and Qin Xi's son is called Qin Kan.
In order to name not duplicate names
The old Zhu family compiled half of the periodic table of elements
The one who uses these nomenclatures to the extreme is the old Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty.
We know that Zhu Yuanzhang's original name was Zhu Zhongba, and his father's name was Zhu Wusi, his grandfather's name was Zhu Chuyi, his great-grandfather Zhu Sijiu, Gaozu Zhu Bailiu, and the fifth ancestor Zhu Zhongba were all named after numbers.
In the Yuan Dynasty, this was the way the low-level people took the name, and after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, it was natural to have culture and how to come.
National Palace Museum, Taipei, Ming Taizu Statue (Partial)
Therefore, he asked people to write the first five words and sentences for each of his sons and nephews to type, such as zhu di, the king of Yan:
Gao Zhan Qi saw you, and Hou Zai Yi was often by.
Cihe Yi Bozhong, Jian Jingdi Xianyou.
When you look at the first 10 words, are you very familiar?
Moreover, the old Zhu family not only has to type the second word, but also conforms to the law of the five elements living in harmony with each other.
Son Zhu Di's generation is next to the wooden character, wood is fire, so the grandson Zhu Yunjiao's generation is next to the fire word, so the cycle of gold, water, wood, fire and earth is repeated.
The idea was very good, but then it encountered a problem: there were too many children and grandchildren of the old Zhu family, and the good words were used up, and they had to avoid not being able to share the same name with the elders, so it was the turn of the Zhuzi Zhu grandchildren next to the golden characters, and even the words saw, shovel, cone, and pliers were used as names.
Later, these soil slag words are also used up, in order to be able to take a name smoothly, the strange characters in various ancient books have been scooped out by the big waves, it is really not OK, you can also move hard.
For example, the "垕" of Emperor Ming muzong Zhu Zaiyuan has only one usage of the Henan place name "Shenyuan"
Thus, there were Zhu Gongxi, Zhu Shenlei, Zhu Tongguo, Zhu Tongyi...
Wait a minute! These words seem to be familiar too?
Yes, when the chemist Xu Shou translated the periodic table of elements at the end of the Qing Dynasty, he decided that the metal elements were all words next to the gold characters, in order not to produce ambiguity, in addition to the gold, silver, copper and iron, which the ancients already knew, other metal elements were named according to the English pronunciation and selected strange characters.
At this time, he encountered the same problem: there were not enough strange words—until he opened the treasure of the Ming History.
Know so much
What if I still don't take a name?
Ah Xin can guess, now someone must be asking: now they are all small families, do not type and line, and no one believes in those ghosts and gods, I feel that there is still no skill to get the name!
Don't panic, Ashin will reveal the long-cherished secret recipe! (Although it is not needed as a single dog)
First of all, pay attention to the common words of newborn names every year, and we should try to avoid them as much as possible.
If you want to query the duplicate name, now the public security online office halls or government service networks in various provinces and cities have basically put on the shelves the "same name and the same surname query" function, first to know oneself and know the other, and then to be able to survive the battle when naming.
For example, the same name query in Beijing
The second point is that it really can't be named, and the method of mastering "male "Chu Ci", female "Poetry Classic", "Analects", and Wu "Zhou Yi" is correct.
Think of Wang Guowei of "Kingdom Kesheng, Wei Zhou Zhizhen", Dai Wangshu of "Former Wangshu Makes Pioneer Xi", Ma Boyong of "Emperor Kao Yue Boyong", Zhou Xingchi of "Xiongzhou Wulie, Juncai Xingchi", and Mo Wenwei of "Gentleman Leopard Change, Its Wen Wei Also"...
They have long proved to us by name: there are thousands of ancient poems, and you will surely find a virgin land that has not yet been opened up by the public!
Resources:
[1] The Magical "Watershed" of Naming: Why Did the Names of the Two Characters Gradually Increase After the Eastern Jin Dynasty? National Humanistic History, Yuan Weizhi
[2] "Children all over the street are called "Zi Rui" and "Zi Qing", which is actually an ancient tradition | Short History", Short History, Yan Jiulin
[3] The Phenomenon of Personal Names and Social Psychology, Wang Jianhua
[4] "These ancient names are poisonous, please let me laugh and live", see
[5] "In ancient times, there was Cao Mengde, and now there is Xie Guangkun: What is the exquisite behind the explosive name?" ", Traceable Jun OCC
[6] "Recommended Reading" Someone put the names of the Ming Dynasty princes together and found a periodic table of elements," People's Daily, Zhao Ruopu
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2022.1.27
Editor: Sangsang | Review: Yoyo