What was the honorific title for women in ancient times?

Women in China have made great contributions to the reproduction and progress of the Chinese nation and won wide respect and love. Therefore, there are many honorifics, honorifics, good names and elegant names in ancient books and poems.

First, the ancient honorific terms for women

Generally speaking, other people's wives are called "madam" and "madam". In addition, they are also called "meeting place", "housing person" and "working room". Address other people's daughters as "Lingyuan" and "microscope".

Among the appellations of women, "mother" is the greatest and noblest. Liehouzi called his mother "Taitai", the mother of the emperor "Empress Dowager", the mother of the official "Taijun" and the mother of the common people "Ma".

The woman said that she married a man's wife. Luo Fu made a speech before: "You are really a fool. You have a wife and Luo Fu has a husband." Qing is a beautiful woman, concubines are often modest names for women, while women are unmarried women.

Beauty is beauty, and beauty is beauty. Chanjuan means beautiful color, which was later used to refer to beautiful women. Qianjin used to call someone else's daughter, which means dignity. Jiao Wa: Also called Jiao Niang. Refers to a beautiful girl.

Beauty is radiant and refers to beautiful women. Beauty refers to beauty, as the ancient saying goes: "There are many beauties in Zhao Yan, and the beauty is Yan Ruyu." It is said that most of the daughters of Zhou surnamed Ji are good-looking. People generally call Ji a beauty, and later she gradually becomes a respectful name for women.

Women's towel, which originated from the Book of Jin, is an ornament worn by ancient women on their heads to represent women. Later, people often called the heroes among women "heroines".

There is a saying in the "Jasper Song" in the ancient Yuefu that "Jasper is a little girl and dare not climb your virtue". A beautiful and faithful woman is called "Luo Fu". An ugly and virtuous woman is called "no salt"

Second, the modesty of ancient women.

Ancient women also called themselves, influenced by traditional culture. Ancient women were generally modest and called themselves "concubines", "handmaiden", "concubines" and "handmaiden". These usages can be seen in traditional poetry or film and television dramas.

Men call their wives "wives", "wives", "wives", "my family" and so on. These are polite terms for your wife.

In addition, the ancients generally used little girls or divorced girls as honorifics for their daughters, while dog girls used to call themselves young and inexperienced daughters. For your mother, you usually use kindness or mother.

Widowed Empress Dowager claimed to be "bereaved", folk women claimed to be "little girls" and "cloth clothes", and elderly women claimed to be "old women". These are all modest words to herself.

Maids call themselves "handmaids" in front of their masters, ordinary women call themselves "cloth clothes" in front of officials, and monks call themselves "poor monks", "poor roads" and "poor nuns", all of which are modest names of ancient women.

The most common self-styled concubine is the modesty of ancient women. There is a saying that my concubine is not named, which means that my little girl is unmarried. The original meaning is that women are unmarried and are in a state of being married.

Generally speaking, "I don't have a name" means "I'm not married". In modern times, if a young woman says this to you, it means "I'm not married yet, you still have a chance". Because in ancient times, using "concubine" was a kind of honorific title.

Women usually use the "willow posture" to humbly address their looks. In ancient times, willow was regarded as the foundation of trees. In fact, it's not because of her bad looks, but because of the modesty of women.

In a word, China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times, and many places can reflect the modesty and respect of this ancient civilization. The ancients paid great attention to addressing, using courteous words when addressing themselves and respectful words when addressing each other. What do you say, ladies and gentlemen?

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