We the Chinese nation has one thousand years of civilization.For thousands of years, people from production to the development, basic pattern intact.Specific to each dynasty, the name is different.Generally speaking, the name of the elders is more complicated, people not only have baby name, scientific name like today, and today has been out of words, Numbers, etc.Among them '.Words', is an important component of the ancient names, its role and the "name" is also important.

Today we often say "name", is actually the ancients "name", and "words".Of course, it is only in terms of general situation, at different times in the history of our country, the name characteristics are not exactly the same.Our country names the first regular liberaty are to be found.Restore worship of the sun, the passage of calendar is power calendar, therefore, the dynasty monarch and aristocrats like to use the name air-dried.In history, according to shi-ji summer biographic sketches of dynasty monarch in a name of minzhu, paraconic, kang and others less, according to Chen Meng home book review we find in the Yin ruins in the research, the name "kang" in the word "g" word, is one of the ten SUNS (heavenly) in the legend.In addition, there are kong jia of xia dynasty monarch's name, withdraw, decyl and so on, in the name "a", "j" is air-dried.As to the shang dynasty monarch, also have inherited the name dynasty monarch of the habit, whether it is the founding of the Thomson (b) or the head of the national subjugation emperor (i.e., Yin king), 29 monarch, is named after air-dried.

Noble also follow this kind of practice at that time, the name used in the names, such as ZuJi decyl, tiger, father father d, bow parent g, etc., are all so.In the zhou dynasty, along with the development of society and the reproduction of population, the name of the method is perfected.As it says on the annals, clan slightly, the monarch "life, death is excessive;Life in righteousness, death overflow with righteousness.Birthday chang, day, yue, yue wu.Small son qi, micro ZhongYan, basket, than dry, people all week.YiBingDing departed their armour, how "hsiao.Here the meaning of "hsiao" that is no longer like summer businessman only know by name air-dried, said no matter how to change only the ten heavenly stem, appear too qualitative rather than began to pay attention to literary grace, ABU by name, such as chang, hair, rev, ZhongYan, basket, and dry than both abound change and rich in meaning, its rich culture.Name it is because of the zhou dynasty people developed the these changes, the result not only results in a large number of solemn and novel name appeared, but also to promote our country the first principle is born.Nobility of this naming principle is designed for the name of, also known as "five six avoid".According to "zuo · huan public six years, the principle of the zhou dynasty people named" five: a letter, righteousness, phase, false, have a class.

Is letter with the name, good for life for righteousness, for class life, take the content is false, take in the parent for the class.Not to, not to judge, not by mountains and rivers, not high, not to beast, not with money.Ers to taboo things god, name, will the taboo.So countries, fei Ming, officer, waste, with mountains and rivers, waste, beast would waste si, with money is spent.Jin to xi hou waste Stuart, song to designated waste not, my late father, wu waste mountains, is a big thing can't life."Clean operation on "also records, the zhou dynasty people" fame, also to the letter, to the righteous, phase and false, in class.Letter to born, if lu childe friends, in the hand is yue 'friends'.If Germany called the righteousness, wen Wang Weichang, featuring for hair also.Hill also like to class, if Confucius.Take the thing is false, if Song Gong tussah a mortar also.Take to the father for the class, the class seem to like the father also."

Name is said above, the zhou dynasty people principle of "five", refers to the name of the source of the five aspects, namely "letter,,," righteousness "and" phase ", "false", "class"."Letter" refers to the children some of the characteristics of the body, such as big eyes, white skin, the body fat, according to these characteristics can make the name find inspiration;"Righteousness", refers to the child shows some of the gifts, such as smart, active, such as weak, name can also be used as a reference."Phase" refers to the child's appearance, beautiful and ugly, can also be on the basis of considering the name;"False" is under the guise of, can be the name under the guise of other things;"Class" is similar, it is said that can be used with children characteristics similar to the name.As to avoid "six", it is said that as the nobles are the identity of the people, when they were born destined to be a nobility, their names are ordinary people not to call, must be taboo.In order to facilitate future taboo, six factors to consider when a name, avoid using name, mountains and rivers, the prime minister, disease name, offering (beast), the phenomena of the name.

Because of the name, mountains and rivers, the prime minister is very common, disease name appear indecent, sacrifice, the phenomena of too serious, do not facilitate taboo, so in the "six" avoidance.Avoid the "five", "six" actually appears in today to be somewhat tedious, but is the so-called "nothing can be accomplished without norms or standards", under the patriarchal clan and Confucian social background at that time, to guide or specification name does have its practical significance.In these principles under the constraint of the name, such as ji fa (ji fa), Confucius (Confucius), ZhuangZhou (chuang tzu), Li Er (Lao tzu), QuPing (qu yuan and song yu or each has its own characteristics, or beautiful sounds, compared to the xia shang period drab name is really a huge step forward.

Name of the zhou dynasty characteristics until after the spring and autumn period and the warring states period and the qin dynasty, it was not until the han dynasty changed, and then continue this change to han dynasty.The han dynasty name in addition to take over the old method, and added some methods, such as respect for the elderly, ranking, beautiful some influential people in the use of a word again at the same time.Restore like to use "DE", "qing", "b", "respect", "the ritual" one old word, such as "young", "bird", "uncle", "zhong", "time" and "less" ranking, "giant", "kang", "xuan", "into" high ", "" tong", etc. Beautiful words.People at that time the name of the most commonly used words, basically have jun, male, weng, yuan, long, kyrgyzstan, qing, bing, lang, longevity, open, chapter, chang, shock, thanks, sun, room, king James, by the people, he, and large, giant, wei wei, and spirit, alum, at the beginning of the world, forever,, xuan, treasure, tao, Germany, Italy, hui, filial piety, purge, kindness, respect, and is, xuan, repairing, grasp, courageously, bear, loyal, bright, animal husbandry, treasure, let, in, in, etc.In addition, because at that time is after long war split strength to rise and boom, it is widely with underdeveloped desire to serve the country's social sense of responsibility, also embodies the spirit of The Times, in name of L.Some people pay attention to the contribution to the country, the name Kong Anguo, Zhao Chongguo, Yu Dingguo etc;Some people admire heroes in the past, the name Chen Shang, Zhao Yao, Zhang Yu;Some warrior, named Su Wu, shupi, xiahou to win;Name some masculinity halma, Kong Fen, wei bully, male;Name some virtues ZhuoPing, cao cao, dong zhuo, Ezra pound;And so on.These, all have distinct characteristics of The Times.Dominated by the han, follwed double name change single-name policy, forced to put those double name changed to single name.In follwed point of view, "before the qin dynasty after a few" guy, so he ordered the ban the use of double name, all the words above name as "reputation".Under the influence, after a long time people name all use first names, only with a word in the word.At the time of the huns khan know tooth, formerly sac, heard that the mainland cancelled after double name, ask for simplified as word name "know,.Follwed ChangSunWang would otherwise, was renamed Wang Zong with cases, due to attempt rebellion, after defeat to commit suicide, not only has been restored and name, as punishment.Like this in the name of the words in a minus one, showed a strong migration intention, the people from now on with "double name is nidering" this concept, seldom someone with a name again.This practice has been lasted for more than 300 years, to the northern and southern dynasties showing modest change, sui tang five dynasties when further change, since the song dynasty are more people to use double name.

Therefore, a single-name became nearly one thousand years before the eastern han dynasty to song dynasty people the name of the biggest characteristics.Though some of the doll and use of double name, but almost all have their own special reasons, belong to the basic characteristics of special cases.Wei jin southern and northern dynasties period, the people the name of the characteristics of basic continuation of the previous habit, the meaning of the name to serve the motherland, to uphold, shaoxing possessions, amara NingBang, basic it is single in the form.Basic in war, of course, because this period, people's thought habit is no longer like the zhou dynasty or han was somehow bound up, and with the formation of Taoism and Buddhism, also appeared relatively free in the name or the characteristics of diversification, most of the name also imprint on the time.Is one of the features such as the emergence of new names was like repetition of words, another characteristic is like before the nickname "o" word, even such a man cao cao also has a nickname called "hide", its era characteristics is very obvious.In addition, there are people like this period and in the name "of the" word, or add words of religion, has become a new phenomenon.Among them, with the word "of" the name of prominent example is the famous calligrapher wang xizhi and his descendants.Wang xizhi is the name of the twilight, the names of the sons of 7, coagulation of the xuan, melt, the mood, badge, fuck, offer, the two grandson's name is shot, jing, two of the son's name is wing, yue.So four generations successively, is regarded as the typical example.