The abusive "turtle grandson" is also a personal name. What other nice names do you know?

In China, naming is a very particular thing. Some children take their father's surname, some children take their mother's surname, and some children have birth names, scientific names and aliases ... not to mention words, numbers, elegant names, nicknames and so on. Some ethnic minorities even have customs such as father and son names and mother and son names.

Before the child was born, parents were almost busy looking up the dictionary, turning over ancient books, or counting the eight characters, preparing to give the child a good name.

For example, modern people believe that if a name touches a turtle, it will bring bad luck. However, do you know that in ancient times, turtles, dragons, phoenixes and Kirin were called "four spirits", belonging to auspicious animals and often used as names.

During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, the successor of the State of Chu was Li, and there was a singer named Li during the Xuanzong period of the Tang Dynasty. The poet Du Fu also wrote a poem "Meeting Li Guinian Downstream" for him. Bai Juyi has a nephew nicknamed "A Gui", which is very popular with Bai Juyi. He wrote in "De Gui": "My nephew started at the age of six, and the word is Gui."

This psychological change reflects the status and values of turtles in the evolution of folk customs in different times, from which we can see the relationship between naming words and folk customs.

Since ancient times, there have been various traditional folk naming customs in China. The following is the most classic method:

Name the flowers according to the season when the child was born. Such as Chun Shen, Yu Xia, Qiu Yan, Xiao Dong, Lan Zhen, Ju Xiang, Gui, etc. Common in women.

Shen Shen (Shanghai), (Chongqing), Lin Zheguang (Zhejiang), (Shaanxi) and Huang (Yunnan). If Lao She's eldest daughter was born in Jinan, she will be named "Ji Shu". There are also people who take a word from their ancestral home and birthplace and become famous. For example, Zhang Shaoqing, whose ancestral home is Shaoxing, Zhejiang, was born in Chongqing, mainly to commemorate.

Pan Zi method

Parents are eager to give birth to a baby girl. They will use some interesting names when naming their daughters, such as Gendi, Lingdi, Zhao Di and Pandi.

The couple have no children under their knees and adopt a child from other places or surnames. In the names of such children, there is often a word "Lai", such as, Lai Jiao, Lai Gen and Lai Fa.

According to the old people, pigs, dogs, cows, sheep and other livestock are despicable animals. Because of inferiority and not being noticed by evil spirits, it is easy for children to take names. Such as A Yang, A Niu, pigs, rabbits, puppies and so on. In addition, there is a related name, which is named after the zodiac sign of the year when the child was born, such as Xiaolong, Jiajun (Ma) and Niu Gang. This kind of words is more common in rural areas.

Lu Xun's novel "The Storm" describes: "The habits of this village are a bit special. Women like to weigh themselves when they have children, so they use gold as their nickname. " For example, "nine-catty old lady" is a special naming custom among the people in eastern Zhejiang.

Husband and wife have children one after another, or daughters one after another, so one of the boys is named after the girl and raised as a daughter; Or treat your daughter as a boy and treat her as a boy. This is a common occurrence among the people. The former is named Mei Xin, Baoji and Qiuyue, while the latter is named Ya Nan, Jia Jun and Jia Xiong.

Rank method

Brothers with the same name, the first word or the next word is the same, is called ranking. For example, there are four brothers in Zuo Zhuan, named Qiao Ru, Burning Ru, Rong Ru and Jane Ru. Another example is Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi in Water Margin.

Some parents think that children are unlucky and can only grow up with two or more surnames. So he adopted the child to a couple with different surnames and gave them a new name. The names of these children often mean adopted children, such as,, (please) Miao, (baby) and so on.

According to the lack of lines in the five elements, it accounts for a large proportion of the names of people over 40 in Chinese mainland. In the past, when people named names, they would ask fortune tellers to calculate "eight characters" and "five elements"; If someone hits five lines and misses one or two lines, they have to use the word "missing line" or use the word "missing line" as a radical name to remedy it, otherwise the child will live a long life.

For example, the name of Runtu in Lu Xun's novel "Hometown": Because he was born in a leap month and the five elements were short of soil, his father called him Runtu. Another example is Fang Youhai (lack of water), Jin (lack of gold), Gao Senquan (lack of wood and water) and Xu (lack of fire soil), which are also named by the five-element method.

What other wonderful surnames are there? Welcome to discuss in the comments section!