As martial arts novels champion Jin Yong and Gu Long, it can be said that they have run through a lot, and the youthful memories of martial arts novel fans, whether it is Ling Hu Chong with clear grievances in Jin Yong's "Smiling Proud Jianghu", or the naughty and righteous Jiang Xiaoyu in Gu Long's "Peerless Double Pride", have left a deep impression on people.
If we carefully read the works of the two predecessors, we can also find that when choosing names, whether it is Jin Yong or Gu Long, they can take the names of the female characters in the works picturesquely, and when preparing names for these characters, Mr. Jin Yong and Mr. Gu Long also have their own characteristics.
Jin Yong especially likes to use single words to name women, while Gu Long prefers to use overlapping words, but whether they use single words or overlapping words, the female characters written by the two of them are lifelike, and their names are gentle and beautiful.
A single word starts with poetry
If you mention Mr. Jin Yong, the female characters created in your hands are more classic than Huang Rong, the heroine in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
As the heroine of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Huang Rong must have good looks, temperament, and extremely good kung fu.
It was also the appearance of Huang Rong that directly stunned Guo Jing, even Ouyang Ke, who was a flower, met Huang Rong, and was fascinated by him for a while, not knowing how to divide the southeast, northwest, and northwest.
As the daughter of Huang Yaoshi, Huang Rong has been loved by her father since she was a child, and her father, as the owner of Peach Blossom Island, and as an extremely powerful existence in the martial arts, has taught her countless martial arts skills.
But it was Huang Yaoshi's excessive love for Huang Rong that made her stubborn and extreme, and she couldn't stand her father's reprimand, so she ran out of Peach Blossom Island in a fit of anger, which also made her meet and fall in love with Guo Jing.
The relationship story between the two is extremely bumpy, and full of juvenile righteousness, giving all readers a sense of youth, and Huang Rong also met Hong Qigong and became his disciple on the way to travel with Guo Jing.
Huang Rong learned to descend the dragon eighteen palms, as well as a variety of unique skills, her chivalrous spirit, won the attention of readers, but everyone not only likes Huang Rong's style, but also loves his name very much.
Huang Rong's Rong is also a hibiscus, Rong Rong means lotus, lotus has the meaning of "out of the mud without staining, clear ripples without demons" since ancient times.
This is also a hint, implying that Huang Rong is still maverick in the face of right and wrong, and still sticks to her own heart, which also contains Mr. Jin Yong's entrustment and hints.
In addition to Huang Rong, Guo Jing's daughter Guo Fu also has an extremely good-sounding name, and those who are interested may find that the words Huang Rong's Rong and Guo Fu's Fu have one thing in common, they both have grass prefixes.
Just like Huang Rong's mother, Feng Yu, the names of the three generations all have cursive prefixes, although the surnames are very different, but as long as you can see at a glance that these three people are a family.
In fact, this way of naming was often used in ancient times, especially for some famous families, whose names and grades were all particular.
Just like in some places now, according to the generation, everyone will add the same character to their name, but at that time it was not necessary to add the same word, it may be the same radical.
It means that it is people of the same generation or the same race, if you want to cite examples, it is necessary to mention Su Shi, the great poet of the Song Dynasty, and his younger brother Su Zhe.
Su Shi's Shi and Su Zhe's rut are just next to the word car, if this is not particularly intuitive, the connection between them.
We can take a look at the names of several generations of the Jia family in "Dream of Red Mansions", for example, Jia Min and Jia Mei, represented by Jia Zheng, are all named after the names next to the anti-text.
Jia Lian, Jia Huan, Jia Zhen, and Jia Zhu are mainly represented by Jia Baoyu, while Jia Yun, Jia Lei, etc., are all the main characters with the prefix of grass as the name.
This method not only consolidates the blood link of the family, but also better distinguishes the relationship between generations, the name is not difficult to hear, and the meaning is also profound.
In this way, it will not be so that the child's name will be repeated as Zixuan, Zimo, Zichen, Shu Han, Shu Juan, Shu Fen. Using radicals to choose a name has both connotation and deep meaning, and at the same time, there will be no probability of so many duplicate names.
Such a good thing, Mr. Jin Yong has already thought of it for us, why don't we do it?
The name of the overlapping word is lively and cute
However, there is a certain difference between the way Mr. Gu Long's works and Mr. Jin Yong's works are named, although the two are both masters in the martial arts industry, the styles of their works are still very different.
If Mr. Jin Yong's works are more prominent in the love and hatred of youth, Mr. Gu Long's works are more prominent in pure and pure love.
In the hands of Mr. Gu Long, classic characters have also been depicted, among which the more distinctive female characters are: Zhu Qiqi, Bai Feifei, Xiao Mimi, Shu Rongrong, etc.
Take Xiao Mimi in "The Peerless Twins" as an example, ranked among the top ten villains, Xiao Mimi, who once had the title of "fascinated people don't pay for their lives", is also a classic role in the hands of Mr. Gu Long.
Xiao Yuer almost didn't escape her clutches back then, as one of the many female characters in "The Peerless Twins", Xiao Mimi is among so many beauties, but she is still among the top ten villains with her ageless appearance, which is really not easy.
At that time, the article described Xiao Mimi's appearance, and said her horror on the side, even if the filial son and grandson met Xiao Mimi, they had to be fascinated.
However, she is such a big beauty, but she has an ulterior secret, and her weaknesses are even more unexpected, she doesn't want others to say that she always says she is ugly, and hides herself in the hole of the tree.
And her style of acting is ruthless, and her name is completely different from the two, one sounds charming and weak, but the real person is a bloody and ferocious existence.
She is extremely hypocritical, she likes to boast, especially when others praise her appearance, she floats to the sky, pure inner inferiority, can't accept reality, can't accept criticism from others.
This also allowed Xiao Mimi to be pinched by Jiang Xiaoyu with this weakness in the later stage, which made Xiao Mimi go crazy because of this incident, which eventually led to the loss of incense and jade.
Looking at the names given by Mr. Gu Long to the female characters, one or two words are overlapping words to modify the women, and it is not cute and youthful in the lively and naughty.
And his way of naming is actually said to be used by many parents, for example, many girls nowadays like to call Tingting, Jiaojiao, poems, etc., all of which are named after overlapping words.
It not only shows the soft beauty of women, but also shows the naughty cuteness of the girls themselves, which is also an excellent way to name them.
The name has a lot of meaning
In fact, names also have a certain origin, in ancient times, matrilineal society was the core, at that time people of one ethnic group were separated from people of another ethnic group, relying on names.
At that time, the name belonged to an ethnic group, and the main purpose was to be able to distinguish the forces of the two sides, and at the same time, to consolidate the strength of their own side.
However, with the development of civilization, matrilineal society gradually shifted to patrilineal society, and at this time the name became a sign of inheritance.
In ancient dynasties, emperors were passed on to men with the same name, and the patriarchal relationship was close, especially the inheritance relationship between sons inheriting their father's business, father-to-son inheritance, and other official positions, official titles and imperial thrones, which also made the surname and clan blood relationship pay attention.
It is precisely because of this that the formation of a clan society was promoted, in which the male with the highest rank in the family was the highest authority in the family.
Carrying the distinction and relationship of generations, the arrangement of different classes and generations forms an orderly family environment, and relatives with the same blood relationship use the same surname to become a clan.
To use a simple example, the Jia family, the Wang family, and the Xue family in "A Dream of Red Mansions" are all clan relationships with surnames as the main way of distinction, among which there are marriage relationships, including some kinship collateral relationships.
This is also the importance that the ancients attached to the clan family, and in ancient times, some surnames could only be owned by dukes or royal families, which also formed a realistic relationship of respect and inferiority with some surnames.
At the same time, it is also a symbol of experiencing status, but some people may think that there was no emperor or prince in ancient history.
In fact, in the era of war and strife in ancient times, those who could really survive and continue to survive for future generations were more or less some forces, so counting the ancestors for several generations, who has not produced a few big people?
Nor can today's surnames be a sign of status, nor can they be a sign of defining a certain industry or behavior.
In today's society, everyone has more inheritance of surnames and fathers, and the names after surnames are given by their fathers and elders.
At this time, there are also many people, because how to choose a name, how to make the child's name sound alone, and at the same time have a profound meaning, it has become a problem for many parents.
In order to solve this problem, some people will even ask for guidance from masters and ask for help from literati, but after reading the novels of Jin Yong and Gu Long, we can also find a lot of names that are ancient and full of connotation, which are actually very easy to take.
Their naming techniques can also be worth learning from, after all, what girl doesn't want her name to be like a hibiscus, like a falling goose, pure and lovely, and pleasant?
Information sources:
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[2] The Four Grandmasters of New Martial Arts.chinanews.com [Citation date:2019-06-17]
[3] "The Literary History of the Wild Goose", China Reading News, January 24, 2018
[4] "The Origin of Surnames: How Did the Ancients Choose Names?", The Paper, 2016-10-14