Guess a word in one gulp.

Analysis: One bite is the mouth, and more than half is the night. Together, it is the answer: the name.

Ming is a Chinese character, pronounced as míng. The most basic definition refers to the title of a person or a thing, or the title that is used as the basis when doing a thing. It is called the upper and lower structure, and the radical is the mouth.

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Historical evolution of names:

According to Zhou Li, the baby was named by his father three months after birth. The earliest name we see now is the name of Shang Dynasty. At that time, it was customary to advocate the name of heavenly dryness.

It is also often named after its birthday branches, mainly named after Tiangan, A, B, D, E, G, D and N (Ten Tiangan). For example, Taiyi, Tang Cheng (Tianyi), Tai Ding, Pan Geng, Di Xin (Waic), Renzhong, Taijia ... Wu Ding (the great-grandson of Pan Geng).

According to Chen's summary of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, Taikang (that is, Dageng), Zhongkang (Zhonggeng), Shao Kang (Shaogeng) and so on. After the Zhou Dynasty, they paid attention to naming.

In the sixth year of Lu Huangong in the Spring and Autumn Period (705), when Lu Huangong asked about the etiquette to be observed in naming, the doctor gave five rules (five laws): faithfulness, righteousness, image, falsehood and classification.

In the Warring States period, many nobles named their sons by divination, such as Qu Yuan.

With the rise of Confucianism, the emphasis on naming is becoming more and more complicated. In Zhou Li, a book written in the Warring States Period, besides the above five main points, it also stipulated "six noes".

That is, (1) does not depend on the country (2), officials (3), mountains and rivers (4), hidden diseases (5), animals (6) and money.