Why doesn't anyone test ideographic characters in modern times? What's the pressure if you do this?

China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times. In ancient times, "courtesy" was embodied in various aspects such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, and "name" was one of the most important aspects.

Nowadays, for us, "name" is a symbol that can show identity and reflect the good hopes of parents and elders, but in ancient times, "name" was very complicated.

The names of the ancients are divided into two parts: names and characters. Names are real names, and characters are ideographic characters. To put it simply, the "name" is taken by the elders when a person is born, and the "word" is taken by the elders after the coronation ceremony of a man at the age of 20 or the funeral ceremony of a woman 15. There is a clear record in Yili: "The crown is crowned and the word is respected."

In fact, ideographs can be used to express virtue, or the meaning of a person's real name, or family status, or the opposite of his real name.

In other words, referring to the names taken by the ancients and reading the "ideogram" taken by the ancients, we will find that there are certain rules to follow.

For example, Zhou Yu's words, jade and gold all have the meaning of beautiful jade; Another example is Zhang Fei's word "wing virtue", which means that flying and wings have the meaning of spreading their wings for nine days. Now there is also the word "Zi Gu", and Gong and Gu have the same meaning. These are all ways to take words with their real names.

Another example is Sun Ce's word Fu Bo, and Sun Quan's word Zhong Mou. They are Sun Jian's eldest son and second son. In ancient times, "Bo" and "Zhong" meant eldest brother and second child. This is a word used to express family status. There is also Zhu's word "dark", which means "dawn is darkness", and "darkness" means the opposite. In addition, there were many ways for the ancients to take Chinese characters. Although the situation is complicated, it is not random.

But as mentioned above, once a person has a "table character", it means that he has participated in the coronation ceremony or ceremony, is an adult, and can get married or get married. As an adult, you can't ignore taboos and be rude like a child.

So when the ancients had ideographs, they had to learn how to use them in daily life.

In ancient times, the use of "name" and "word" was also particular. For example, in daily interpersonal communication, "name" is usually used to express modesty or the address of superiors to subordinates and elders to juniors, while "word" is usually used to address peers who are very close, or the address of juniors to elders and subordinates to superiors.

Improper use is very impolite and disrespectful, especially for younger generations to call their elders by their first names, or to their peers who are not close.

Therefore, combining the above, we can easily see that the ancient people used "name" and "word" very elegantly, even very complicated. Today's modern people do not have "ideographs", which is also the case for a great reason. They were abandoned because of their complexity. But in addition, there is a very important factor, let's continue to look at it.

There is no way to prove when China people abandoned the traditional cultural custom of ideographic writing, but there is no doubt that it was during the Republic of China. Please note that the abolition of "ideographic characters" in the Republic of China does not mean that people born in the late Qing Dynasty did not have ideographic characters. There is an essential difference between the two.

The reason why the author clearly said that ideographic writing was abolished in the Republic of China was because many legal documents of the Republic of China at that time clearly stipulated that citizens of the Republic of China would have no legal interest if they only wrote Chinese characters without their names, which was also regarded as a kind of disapproval of ideographic writing by the government of the Republic of China.

Then, the culture of "ideographic writing" lasted for more than two thousand years. Why was it gradually abandoned during the Republic of China? In the final analysis, it lies in the new culture movement. At that time, the banner of the New Culture Movement was not only against autocracy, but also against feudal superstition and old culture. The so-called rite of passage and the ancient people's complicated way of choosing characters were completely "old ideas, old feudalism and old culture" to those who advocated the new culture movement at that time, and they were historical and cultural dross that must be abandoned.

Therefore, under the influence of the New Culture Movement, "ideographic writing" was gradually abandoned by people.

But now, ideographs have become popular in some specific circles, such as some cultural circles. Many respected writers, calligraphers and painters give themselves ideographs to show their personal hope for the inheritance and revival of ancient culture.

However, because the use of ideographic characters does have many limitations, and there is no such cultural atmosphere in this society now, ideographic characters are difficult to be as popular as before, and are destined to exist only in history books and become specific historical symbols.