In the past, in rural areas, people were named according to their seniority. Why is it not popular now?

You should be relatively familiar with the old rural tradition of naming according to seniority, especially in the south.

At that time, after a boy was born, he followed this old tradition when choosing a name: he was named according to his seniority in the family.

For example, the farmer is born in the 1980s. In our family, the order of seniority is "Desheng Shaoxian, Fangming Qifu". Currently, only those of the "Ming" generation and a few "Qi" generation still follow the old tradition of naming. These people's names are

The next generation basically no longer follows this old tradition. It can be said that generational naming has gradually become less popular since the 1950s and 1960s.

So why is it that the old tradition that rural people used to abide by: naming according to seniority is no longer popular now?

How to give a child a name that sounds nice but doesn’t sound too tacky is a headache for many parents.

For the past few hundred years, Chinese people have been named according to their seniority.

To put it simply, they are people in the same family, and the names of their peers differ only by one word.

During this period of time, I had a headache for a long time about naming my child.

As a young man, I am not very willing to be named according to the seniority prescribed in my husband's family tree.

Because I feel that naming based on seniority seems a bit tacky, and it’s already the 21st century, so why do we have to name based on seniority?

The reason "naming by seniority" has become unpopular is that the thinking of farmers is no longer so traditional in China, a relatively feudal country in the past.

People at that time had to do everything according to tradition, including naming their children.

But with the development of the times, people have abandoned these backward ideas.

So now, rural people no longer attach so much importance to "seniority" when choosing names.

The overall cultural level of farmers has improved over several generations, but there are very few people who can receive a good education.

In backward rural areas, few people can study.

, couldn't think of a better name, so we had to name it according to seniority.

But after the popularization of compulsory education, more and more literate rural people have come to think of ways to name their children.

Family culture is no longer so important. People attach great importance to their own family culture, so their children must be named according to the seniority in the family.

Many large families in rural areas began to slowly disperse.

People in the family go to live in big cities and after leaving the family, naming their children does not necessarily follow the past traditions.

"Naming according to seniority" has gradually failed to adapt to the development of this society.

But for now, naming children according to seniority is still applicable in many rural areas.

As a surname culture in China, naming based on seniority may still exist for a long time.

Naming according to seniority is a traditional Chinese culture, and there must be a reason why it has been passed down for so many years.

Not to mention anything else, some people now give their children two-letter names and weird names. Not only will the future generations not know where their roots are, but they may also walk on the street. Floods have washed away the Dragon King Temple and a family.

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