Did the ancients have anything to say about names? Which is the best ancient name you've heard?

What do the ancients have to say about names

1. The ancients are related to the word. "Baihu Tong - Name" cloud: "When the name, know its words, and when you hear it, know its name." The ancients generally used methods such as word similarity, complementarity, and antonyms to choose words based on names. Take the characters involved in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as an example, such as Zhu Geliang, the word, righteousness and Ming synonymous; Wei Yan, the word long, the derivation of close to the meaning of long; Lu Su, the word, Su and close relationship; Huang Gai, the word Gongfu, and so on. Complementary, such as:Sun Quan, word Zhongmou, power and strategy complement each other; Zhou Yu, word, jade, gold are beautiful jade; Pan Zhang, Wenjue, Zhangjue, Zhangjue are jade and gifts.

2. Milk name, which is what we call baby name today. After reading this, I take an official name as my school name. Some people have the same school name as their real name. The word "Guan Zi" refers to the word "Guan Zi" when performing the Guan Zi ritual. In ancient China, there were 20 rows of Guanzi rites. In fact, most people were older than 20 when they were crowned. When a woman was 15 years old, she was given a "gift", also known as a "mourning year". With a hairpin and a hairpin, it's time to insert the hairpin. That means you're of age and ready to get married.

3. Ancient nicknames. Ancient literati in addition to the name and characters, there is a very important title - number, the so-called nickname, in fact, is a person's nickname, most of the literati to the elegant name. Essentially and today call your friend "two dogs" "iron egg" is not much different, the cultural mood is much worse. For example, "Dongpo Jushi" is the name of Su Shi, so the world also called Su Dongpo. The name "Dongpo's elbow" has made its debut. Sometimes people get so used to it that they forget its original name, like Zheng Banqiao. Banqiao is the name, Xie is the name. Today, people only know Zheng Banqiao, but do not know Zheng Xie.

4. State of birth. During the Spring and Autumn Period, when Ji was born, his feet were facing downward and his head was facing upward because of the incorrect position of the fetus, so he was named "Ji Sheng". When Duke Cheng of Jin was born, he had a birthmark on his buttocks, so he was named "Black Buttocks"; when Confucius was born, he was named Qiu because of the depression in the middle of his head. The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches were named. Yin Jia, the ruler of Xia, Kong Jia and, the ruler of Shang, all belonged to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. The cook mentioned in Zhuangzi is not a person named Ding, but a cook named Ding.

Which is the best ancient name I've heard?

Wang Xizhi, Gu Kaizhi, Wang Wei, Lu Jiuyuan, Jing Ke, Wu Zixu, Xie Daoxun, Sima Xiangru, Xi Shi, Cai Wenji, etc.