Characteristics of traditional Chinese interpersonal appellations

The appellations were created to indicate the social relations between people, and they distinguish the different roles people play in social relations. Traditional interpersonal relationships refer to the Five Lunar Relationships, that is, husband and wife, father and son, brother, ruler and subject, and friend. The core of the five relationships is that father and son have kinship, which is the center of ethics. Father and son are the heavenly family, which is natural, not created by any one person, not invented by any one person.

The Chinese speak of morality, the Tao, is not man-made, the laws of nature, the workings of nature, which belong to the Tao, like the four seasons, spring, summer, fall and winter, which is not invented by any man.

Traditional Chinese titles change

Many ethnic groups, such as the Han Chinese, have a variety of forms of titles that express the same meaning, such as honorifics, modesty, elegance, nicknames, and aliases. On different occasions, the title for the same person is different. Different people have different titles for the same meaning, which is mainly based on the different roles played, the title changes.

And in ancient society, the title of each other also indicates the identity of the person, social status, and the relationship between people. For example, the emperor of China called himself as me, the subjects are called His Majesty, the title is also called alias, table number. The fundamental difference between name, character and number is that the former is taken by the father or honored elder, the latter is taken by himself.

No., generally used only for self-proclaimed, in order to show some kind of ambition or express some kind of emotion, to the person title is also a kind of honorific.