Many readers read drama "wind to burn", the western han dynasty writer sima xiangru was on his way home, free to live in zhuo prince home, a beautiful piece of draw beauty ZhuoWenJun wind to burn, then, both of the night to elope to chengdu, married.Because of poverty, by gentleman when lu to sell wine and the Duan Yan matter been linked to historic anecdotes, is been YingShi filled with wine.This sima xiangru has an interesting nickname, called "son", "historical records" in a clear record.It proved that using the nickname of history, the western han dynasty in China can be traced back to at least 2000 years ago.Song dynasty patriotic poet xin qiji in the estuary is never meet joy, Beijing solid pavilion meditate "this word, has filed a nickname of two historical figures, one is in the song dynasty emperor wu of song emperor wudi the nickname of slavery, the other is the northern wei dynasty's emperor wudi Rio event name fo, visible in ancient times is a lot of people have a nickname.Through history, there are some famous people in history also has a nickname, such as the three cao cao small named geely, also known as ".The son of liu bei, small called dou shu after liu chan.Wen tianxiang's nickname is YunSun.Ming dynasty famous navigator zheng he nicknamed miho.The late Ming dynasty peasant uprising leader article analyzes small named huang to son.To later generations find convenient, tang dynasty poet Lu Guimeng also specially written fairy, list, later generations have continued to record again, make a nickname is an important branch of the name.

Nickname is not only popular among Chinese people, many countries in the world also has a habit of give the child a small name.Such as the Netherlands and the Czech republic, their peers in the family members and between friends and relatives classmate used between childhood name is common.Well-known former US President Ronald Reagan, a nickname "Dutch boy," why is Reagan head wears a Dutch short hair when I was young, his father gave him this interesting nickname.There are, of course, nickname to Europe and the United States people (nickname), and a man can have several nickname, it is different from China's nickname, in our country, generally each person has only one name.

Why childhood name widely loved by the people?Main cry because it is simple, smooth, and kind, sweet.Name more formal formal, want to consider the sound, form and meaning of each word, and nicknamed can conveniently came to, not stick to one pattern, is arbitrary, is funny, lively, natural, as long as the parents like, literally call anything.In modern times, China's nickname to add "o", "small", "big" and "son" is more, such as yun o, o root, lotus, xiao LAN, xiao gang and xiao shun, big brave, lovely, eiko, buff, but more a thin, du fu's poems or use method such as nannan, tingting, Ming Ming, yuan yuan, maomao, 'feifei, jia jia, shan, Danny.In the north, in order to express their parentsbabyLove, relaxed, intimate feelings.Often the nickname "its", such as grass, ogawa into "little grass", "ogawa son"."Its" at the end of a consonant to light and short, then its clear area is nuclei, rhyme is fuzzy.In general, when called "its" nickname, as long as there are so a two colour can achieve the purpose of expressing feelings.

Nickname from the iron eggs, stone pillars, such as the full force of a class full of kindness and nickname, it is easy to see the parents to the child's a piece of love and expectation.But in the past a small name, pay attention to how to less people of character, especially in rural areas, many parents of children call what name, in the northern countryside people can often hear such as little smelly, big SaoZi nickname.Up to some, also is named according to the child's birth order more, such as small small two, three, five, six, etc.

Now, use the nickname of children greatly reduced, especially in urban areas, is rarely seen, most parents chose good meaning, pronunciation loud words for children a small name, induces has the following several ways:

1. According to the child time and place of the name, the characteristics of zhouyi.Born in zhouyi time: like chenchen, seaside, misty, etc.To the birthplace of zhouyi name: as with, she, etc.And like a footballer RongZhiXing because was born in a sailing trip, parents gave him a small name "Marine".Small in zhouyi seasons: spring, autumn son, dong dong, light snow, wintersweet, etc.And like a prose writer liu Yin isIt snowsWas born, the family called it "the snowman".To the zodiac of zhouyi name: such as tiger, dragon, small the cattle.To the physical characteristics of zhouyi name: such as fat, small albino, lele, and so on.

2. The expected type.By giving a child a small name, entrust the expectation and wishes of the parents for the next generation.Such as long time in hu feng's small valley of the son, this is mother gave him the nickname, expect him to like millet tenacious vitality, strive to survive in the world.Hope children health beautiful nickname: tingting, yuan, li li, peipei, jia jia, etc.Hope children aspirant, a nickname Zheng Zheng, dawei, dacheng, the little hero, etc.

3. Book predictive method.In order toThe childBirth parents situation, mood thin name for their children, such as the famous comedian thin named "south-south" kun to his daughter, the reason is that south-south was born, kun is the yunnan border as condolences to the people's liberation army's performance, so this nickname.At the Beijing people's broadcasting station in the name of "memorandum" essay has such a contributions: a soldier wife giving birth pregnancy poisoning, the husband in front, after the child has been day and night by nursery staff feeding, medical staff like a family to take care of the children, not only gave him a resounding nickname, called "two place", the nickname so had been called off.

4. Name of arbitrary zhouyi method.Not to consider various factors when the child was born, only consider find a read smoothly, kind, beautiful name, the name is very much, such as small red, rong, ya ya, doug, yueyue, jingjing, BinBin, etc.

5. Small animals or plants in the parents love children a small name.Such as deer, yan yan, dapeng, cuckoo, the cat cat, pigeons, chrysanthemum, lotus, sweet osmanthus, small column, etc.

6.Along with the name and nickname.Is generally give the child a nickname in the past, such as child "scientific name" for the kids again after six or seven years old, is the scientific name for name.Now the custom has changed, and promote the shift is probably the cause of the household registration system and speed up the pace of life, a lot of parents wants a book to the child the name is successful, the nickname is good name up again after consideration, or name nickname to consider at the same time, in this way, with a thin name name to become a kind of important form.Like call Li Tianqiao child nicknamed jiaojiao, small JiHaiLiang named liang liang, the small named lee yim ping ping ping, Wang Weixiang little named cheung.

In recent years, with the expansion of China's foreign exchange, a small name also have increasingly obvious tendency of "internationalization", some people use English to give a child a small named morning (" morning ", English pronunciation cat ning).It is understood and named Lily (English "Lily", Lily).Above two English small called up is also a kind of smooth, can be classified as a bold attempt.