In accordance with the customs of the Chinese people have the name of the name and the prime minister two kinds big.

In rural shanxi, the source of the nickname basically has the following kinds: parents mocked the nickname, such as big head ghost, two hard eye, fat, xiaoshanzi, etc.In order to the healthy growth of children, especiallybabyWeak, in order to take precautions against natural calamities and the name associated with animal, more like a dog, dog, dog, Wolf, left, and so on, and call the nickname of the same as the name of the festival is also the important source of the nickname;Attached great mountains and rivers and building up many nickname, such as a near datong county west tamura book of cetian reservoir, the village in a small library as nicknamed for up to 12 people, here in the dark is obvious, the psychology of the parents hope their children strong and sturdy.As a family, continue to a symbol of the incense, some childhood name often named after the age of children born granddad directly, such as 59, 63, etc., this is mainly confined to the boy.

In the folk, nicknamed for many to act as a bad word.Common thought the advantage lies in is advantageous to the parents to raise, due to the old live in poverty, infant mortality rate is extremely high, peasant parents only hope their offspring will like those dogs, cows, sheep, donkeys and other livestock, no matter what to eat, more bitter more tired, to be able to base base, long peace, so a lot of people with dogs, sheep, cattle, tiger, and even urine, dunghill, MAO egg words such as naming perhaps it is not surprising.

In addition, the folk vulgar letter has a base of deceiving spirits, the farmers think ghost monster like nice name, they are in such a bad name, even the ghost don't call names to avoid ghosts.And such as ring bolt, which means that by the kitchen god through child, named to the kitchen god even when the pull of a red rope tied to pediatric leg, in case the ghost strove to children.

Nickname is also expressed in the father, grandparents' desire and ideal.Such as blessed, rifles, fully.Conveyed the message a see, three xi is shown in the three generations of hei, root also said happinesses, if born, second child is a girl, some people tend to give her a "brother", "change" and "change" and "flip" such as name, parents hope to use this name to "drag", "change" or "turn" out boys.

Believe that Yin and Yang five lines of family also often for alleged lack of the child within a soil of soil RunTu name, kratos, hit gold farmers are called iron, iron deficiency.

The childThe prime minister is name, is more formal, usually by the elders or reader to up, please.Pay attention to meaning, is the Chinese name of zhouyi traditional habits, customs often according to the different wishes of parents, looking forward to, hobbies and fashion a meaningful name for the baby.

In the past, people's name is influenced by the family, the clan is very big, bigger family, in order to show the whole of the family and the systemic, difference between seniority and the order of merit, in advance for the posterity specifies the name of a word.So in life we often hear, peers of the same family always has a word is the same.And, bearing, rev. After the first, promotions, delay, and developed at the content is the name of zhouyi, as the light face, father and the progenitor;The first, salt, delayed first first;Sida, jin da, clock, manufacturers, etc. Name is such.

In some places in rural areas of shanxi, named as popular a kind "with ye sun" means, is decided to grandson, according to the names of the grandfather's name.As grandpa is a false name, father is only two words, grandson is the name of the three words, and only one word with grandpa, that outsiders look like they are a bit like brothers.

Name this is one of the representative symbol, is a kind of appellation symbols, names and there is no connection, but because it is a person, for the familiar, the sound of the name also as the smell of the man, immediately thought of this person's gender, age, personality, image and social role.Contact name also have such people, because of this, the stand or fall of baby names, relationship is important, folk common thought, it has a lot to do with the fate of people.In this way, the name and the social value orientation, parents' expectations, social fashion closely linked.We can see from the names of the people of social change.

Chinese characters reform committee of Beijing, Shanghai, liaoning, shanxi, sichuan, guangdong, fujian and other seven provinces and cities of the 174900 names of words in the statistical results show that the Chinese name of zhouyi often use six words change is as follows: 1949 years ago: English, show, jade, Jane, China, blue.

In May 1949 to 1966, China, Britain, jade, bright, show, country.

In June 1966 to October 1976, during the cultural revolution, namely, army, red, China, UK, Ming.

From 1976 to 1982: China, lili, spring, a small, yan, red.

Among them, the most characteristic of age is name during the cultural revolution, reflects the fashion at that time, little names, is the social process of footprints.