Recently, in the process of sorting out the "three classes", I suddenly found a problem that I had never noticed before: Ban Gu was Ban Chao's older brother, which is what we learned a long time ago, but why were the two born in the same year (32 AD)?
There are many speculations under the thinking:
Guess 1: The historical data is wrong. However, after consulting relevant information, it is shown that the two were born in the same year, and there is no record that the time of their birth is doubtful.
Guess two: the two are the same father and mother, Bangu may be born in January, Ban Chao is born in December. But that seems a bit...
Guess three: the two are twins! Twins were supposed to be considered ominous signs in ancient times, so this possibility is also very small.
Guess Four: The two are half-brothers. This possibility is available, but no exact information has been found.
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When this problem was about to become an insoluble state, but there was an unexpected gain, it was almost unbelievable that it was such a coincidence! Here I would like to thank the enthusiastic netizens, let me learn new knowledge!
So, how exactly is this mystery solved? Let's demystify the "mystery of the name"!
As Chinese, we all know that the ancients had "characters" ("characters" are annotations and additions to names), and only Chinese in the world have words, and foreigners do not.
In ancient times, it was necessary to call others, not directly by name, and it seemed very impolite to call him "word" to show respect. For example, if you see Li Bai greeting him, you have to say, "Brother Taibai, how are you doing lately?" And can't say "Li Bai, how are you doing lately?" ”
In ancient times, you can't call yourself a word, but you have to say your own name directly, indicating humility.
For example, Cao Cao is your good friend, you want to introduce Cao Cao to others, you can say "this Cao Jun, the word Mengde", Cao Cao himself can say: "The surname Cao, the single name Cao."
Some rules about "word":
(1) According to the birth order, the "character" is called "Bo, Zhong, Uncle, Ji, Chang" and so on.
The boss is called "Bo" or "Meng".
The boss is called "Bo". For example: Sun Ce, Zi Bo Fu. The boss is called "Meng". For example: Ma Chao, the word Mengqi; Cao Cao, the word Mengde.
The second is called "Zhong". For example: Sun Quan, the word Zhongmou.
The third elder is called "uncle". For example: Liu Xiu, Ziwen Uncle.
The old four are called "seasons". For example: Liu Zhang, the word JiYu.
The fifth is called "young". For example: Horse mo, the word is young.
(2) The "word" should also correspond to the "name".
For example:
Zhou Yu, the word Gongjin. Yu and Jin are both beautiful jade.
Lu Su, the word is respectful. "In awe".
Jiang Huan, the word Gong Yan. Both Huan and Yan are beautiful jade.
Zhao Yun, Zi Long. "The wind from the tiger, the cloud from the dragon".
Zhang Fei, character Yide. To fly, wings are required.
(3) There is also a kind of "word", called "line by word".
"Line of characters" is the abbreviation of "line of words in the world", that is, only the "word" of the person is called, instead of his name. The characteristic of "line by word" is that the world mostly only calls the person's "word" and is not familiar with his "name". For example, the famous cabinet chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet minister Yang Shiqi, the famous Yu, the character Shiqi, but the world usually only knows its characters, so it is called "character line". On the contrary, if Li Bai, the name is white, the word is too white, because the name and word are familiar to the world, it cannot be said to be "line by word".
Qu Yuan (名平, 字原), in character lines.
Xiang Yu (名書, 字羽), in the form of characters.
Wu Zixu (名員, 字子胥), in the form of character lines.
Meng Haoran (名浩, 字浩然), in the form of characters.
Liu Bowen (名基, 字伯圍), in character lines.
Tang Bohu (名寅, 字伯虎), in character lines.
Seeing this, let's put out the "words" of Ban Gu and Ban Chao to take a look!
Ban Gu, the word Meng Jian; Ban Chao, the word Zhongsheng.
So, do you have the answer?
That's right! Ban Gu, the character Meng Jian, is the eldest son of Shu Chu. Ban Chao, the word Zhongsheng, ranked second. Therefore, it is reasonable that the half-brothers Ban Gu and Ban Chao were naturally born in the same year!