What is the learning of naming in ancient times?

Naming has been taken very seriously in China since ancient times, and people have placed great importance on naming their offspring. Usually the father named the child three months after birth, but there were also names given at the end of the month, at the end of the week, and before the birth of the child. Since the Zhou Dynasty, naming has been incorporated into the rituals and laws and has become institutionalized.

The ancients believed that a good name involves a variety of content, cultural background, personal beliefs, social development trends, etc., especially important is the combination of the "I Ching" with the innate eight strong and weak, the innate five elements of the preferences and contraindications, the analysis of five geomancy, the twelve signs of the human zodiac, the "I Ching" 64 hexagrams trigrams, such as the combination of the analysis of the hexagrams. The ancients felt that a good name, not only the meaning, sense of hearing, beauty and the five geomancy, but also with the eight strong and weak complementary, yin and yang unity, the cycle of birth, and with the five elements of the innate likes and taboos in line with the only name is a good name, only beneficial to the person's life.

Chinese people often use some ways to distinguish different generations of the same family in their names. For example, they use one character in the name to express the generation and another to indicate what the name denotes, or they use the same radicals in the name to indicate the same generation.

Ancient China, because of the influence of the patriarchal system, adopted a system of avoidance in the use of names. It was a system of avoiding the taboo of the honored ones - in conversation and in writing, the names of the elders of the father and the king had to be avoided; and the words in their names or words with the same sound were avoided in the taking of names. Nowadays, although we no longer pay attention to these things, but there are still some people who try not to take the same name or the same sound as their fathers or grandfathers when they choose their names. For taboo reasons, modern Chinese still consider it disrespectful to call their elders by their first names.

Over the millennia, many scholars have also studied the strokes of names and combined them with the I Ching to form an independent science of character measurement. Later, through various generations of scholars to supplement the collation, detailed, but did not attract the world's full attention. 19th century, the Japanese scholar Yuuzaki Jianweng on the Chinese science of names to carry out a more systematic collation, and known as the "Sacred Science". Subsequently, it spread to Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Korea and other regions, forming the current name science, and has been inherited to this day.

Now, the science of names has become popular in China, and there are many naming companies and websites, and many so-called naming masters or naming experts. In fact, in order to get a good name, it is not the work of the name master, but the need to collect and integrate information from various sources.

Name considerationsMost parents give their children names, usually with the expectation of their children. The name should be chosen according to the gender, the hour of birth, the history of the family members, the genealogy, the genealogy of the inheritance 'the reality of the society, as well as the wishes of the parents, etc., and then decide on a comprehensive selection. Here are a few methods and techniques for taking names:

Differentiating between male and female namesAncient and modern male names and female names are mostly decided in accordance with their different genders, different personalities, different divisions of labor, and different habits of life.

Male naming characteristics: based on men's courage, toughness, openness, upward, strength, not afraid of difficulties, the courage to struggle, dare to try the characteristics of the selection of the eagle, tiger, puma, leopard, peng, peng, ten thousand, "Li, mountains, mountains, sea, river, river, Dagan, the long sky, magnificent, fly, rise, rise, and up to the word names; based on the male ideals, aspirations, ambitious, ambitious, to build a career, the characteristics. Choose to protect the country, into the handsome, national pillar, pillar, forward, for the people, build success, build merit, Hongye, Zhiyuan, etc.; based on the characteristics of seeking a lifetime of peace, wealth into the treasure, choose to enter the wealth, into the treasure, Caiwang, Jinbao, Fortune, the four auspicious, happy wealth, ascension of the wealth of the word to name; and the choice of the word is not vulgar, the word to express the voluntary word, to express the integrity of the word to express the word of the name of the longevity of the word, or even the choice of the name of the word of the foreign translations, and so on, there are endless. The name of the company has been changed to the name of a foreign country.

Women's name features: choose to add the "female" side of the word, see the name is known as a woman, such as female, girl, Ni, Yan, Jing, sister, aunt, Shan, etc.; choose to use flowers and plants this kind of word to indicate the name of the woman, this form of expression of a woman as beautiful as a flower, delicate, moving, listening to the name let people like, such as Zhi, orchids, taro, paeoniae, chrysanthemums, Hsiang, core, reeds, foo, bud, ling, cistanche, flower, fen, fang, celery, rong, apples, jasmine, li, Miao, Ying, hyacinth, etc.; the choice of jade treasures of a class of words to take a woman's name, symbolizing the nobility of the female, such as jade, ma, agate, ring, jue, peru, Jane, Shan, beads, qi, Lynn, coral, Qiong, Ei, Bao, gold, silver, yu, kushu, etc.; the choice of colorful class of words to take a woman's name, to express the beauty of the woman's lovely, such as beautiful, Li, Na, Qian, handsome, Juan, flower, Yan, fresh, bright, etc.; the choice of a class of words to take a woman's name, to express the beauty of the woman's cute, such as Mei, Li, Na, Qian, Juan, flower, Yan, fresh, Yan, etc., Yan, fresh, bright, etc.; selection of tenderness, soft scenery of a class of words to take women's names, expressing the tenderness of women's lovely character, such as cloud, moon, wave, snow, Wen, Juan, Hui, Yi, etc.; selection of such words about women's morality to take women's names, to express women's elegance and integrity, such as Hui, Qiao, Jing, Xian, Shuji, Xiu, Jun, Gao, Hairpin, Chuan, incense, Wen, Ya, Zhen, and so on, a colorful.

Veneration of sages in the name of the law throughout the ages, people take names, but also to the name of the sages to take names to express the admiration of the sages, such as the choice of Yao, Tang, Shun, Yu, Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu, Kong, Meng and other words of the people's names, are obvious examples.

The method of quoting the classics to get a name intercepts the quotes and sayings in the classics, with slight changes, as a name, indicating that the name is elegant and not vulgar. For example: He Fang, from "Poetry Classic - Daya - Shimo", "The four directions come to congratulate"; Hou Chaozong, from "Poetry Classic - Xiao Ya - Shinshui", "His flowing water, Chaozong in the sea"; the word "诩" is from "Rituals - Shao Yi", "The Lord of Huitong, Boan ", and Zheng Xuan's note: "诩" means to be sensitive but courageous."

Five titles to take the name of the law of the ancient public, marquis, uncle, son, male five titles, is the king enthroned the rank of the aristocracy, symbolizing the power and status of the aristocracy. People take the name of the choice of public, marquis, uncle, son, male is expressed on the power of respect.

Regarding morality in the name of the law of the Chinese people by Confucianism and traditional culture, there is a Confucianism and the influence of traditional virtues of morality, in the name can also be reflected. Such as: the name of the choice of virtue, morality, respect for virtue, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, loyalty, filial piety, section, loyalty and forgiveness, keep respect, sincerity, loyalty, real, honesty, virtue cleanliness, virtue, constant section, virtue blessing, build virtue and so on.

Specializing in auspicious name law many people take the name, hoping for good luck, happiness, and therefore, the choice of auspicious, happy aspects of the word is also quite a lot, such as Ji, Xiang, auspicious, Fu, Luk, Luk, life, Xi, Joy, blessed, happy, celebrating, auspicious celebrations, Rui, auspicious Rui, Bamboo Rui, Jia, Xing, Li, Xingli, Sheng, victory, victory, Tian, Tian Sheng, life, Crane Shou, Wei, Great Wei, An, Ping An, into the happy, glowing, and so on.

Specializing in literature and martial arts to take the name of the French language, martial arts are two ways for people to build a career. Some people advocate the text, such as text, literature, force text, Wenjun, Confucian, Confucian, Zongkong, Zongmeng, Wenhua, Han, Hanlin, etc.; some people advocate the martial arts, the relevant words are martial arts, Wei, Zong, Tianzhong, Zhen, strong, strengthen, strengthen, force, vigorously, Zhen, Zhenwu, Zhenwu, Tiger, Piao, Leopard, Eagle, Peng, Peng, and so on.

Yi Xiang Bagua naming method Yi Xiang Bagua, is the "Zhouyi" in the eight basic graphics, with the "one" and "--" symbols constitute a "one" that Yang, to "--" represents yang, and "--" represents yin. The author of "Yi Chuan" that gossip mainly represents the sky, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain, zephyr eight natural phenomena, and that "Qian", "Kun"

Two trigrams in the gossip occupies a very important position, is the natural world and human society, the phenomena of the original source. Initial source. Zhouyi", "Yi Chuan" and Yi Xiang, gossip, in China is a very influential academic and cultural phenomena, from Fuxi to Confucius, and then to the successive generations of Yi, all of which are on Yi Xiang, gossip have studied. Yi Xiang, gossip is also deep into the Chinese name up, so Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Burgundy, Dui, heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountains, ze and other words are the name of the application of the rate is relatively high, and has a certain degree of stability of the use of words.

Regarding the nature of naming method of hard work of the Chinese people in the struggle with nature, cultivated the love of nature, worship of nature's good manners, this good manners are also highlighted in the learning aspects of the name. Respect for nature in the name of the law, with the word involves an extremely wide range, from the sun, the moon, the stars, the name of the stars, to a variety of mountains, rivers, rivers, water names, to a variety of animals, plants, to the name of the spring, summer, autumn, winter, to the name of a variety of natural phenomena can be used as a name with the word. Such as river, river, river, river, river, river, river, mountain, mountain, Yue, Song, Xiang, Shin, Han, cypress, maple, birch, Tong, nan, bamboo, grass, Fang, fragrance, spring, summer, autumn, winter, east, south, west, north, Hui, sunshine, sun, moon, star, star, stone, orchid, lotus, plum, chrysanthemum, chow, Rong, cranes, swallows, and so on, to name a few.

Additionally, there are yin and yang five elements of the naming method, the method of naming the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the method of naming the twelve signs of the Chinese Zodiac, and so on, to name the choice of yin, yang, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, xin, nong, d, kai, zi, ugli, yin, mao, cheng, f, ni, ni, not yet, shen, you, huxu, hui, rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, snakes, horses, goats, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs, and other words.