The development of the name

Family name and name in our country, has experienced a long process of evolution to the development to the "name" is commonly used by people today.But in ancient China, and not use the name in the first place, but have a last name and first name, a name, word, and called again, there are many names for the ancient people's life, have their own purpose, the meaning is different.

From ancient times to now, our country has experienced from a single to the person's name is roughly double word name to the word of the development of more.But there is no denying the fact that compared with the last name, the name pattern is relatively stable.Take single-name, take double word name or the name of multiple words, from the overall, is owing to the different age.

China is the world's last name to produce one of the earliest countries, the origin of the name can be traced back to the distant era of myths and legends.

As early as in the human, in ancient times, our ancestors lived a group of the original life.The main content of their lives is how to protect themselves by self-defense, hunting or taken to sustain life.They in social activities, no matter what a group of people, in their own internal use only "name" will be able to distinguish between each other, with another group of people, just say "name" is not enough to show that their identity, he only put his crowd of marks "surname" and his "name" together, to fully express themselves.A sign of such a group of people and their logo, is the earliest human names.

Our country the first people to have their own fixed name may be the legend of the leader of the clan society or tribeThe warIn the hero.This statement, also obeys the law of social development.

The spring and autumn period and the warring states period, the roles of ideology has emerged.Is born "in the poem, a lesser man, take thy wife's bed, load of clothes, Zhang of load.Is born woman, take thy wife, take the clothes of the brown, carry out of tile ", explains that, this means that gave birth to a boy and want to put him in bed, give him wear a skirt, give him playing LongZhang such jewels;If gave birth to a girl let her sleep in the ground, give her to wear animal hair or coarse linen for straw jacket worn by the people, let her play with spindle.

Nonetheless, but doesn't mean that women's status has completely lost, the influence of the matriarchal society still exists, so although has entered the patriarchal society at that time, but still some mother's surname.During the spring and autumn period, "said men's, women's last name, you have a surname, base without's" become a kind of system at the time.This means only the monarch and his ZongZi surname, generally only's noble man.

The spring and autumn period and the warring states period of unmarried women usually in the name of his own name, the name as "or meng (office according to" wife's eldest daughter, the eldest daughter of the concubines, meng), secondary (middle), tertiary (old), season (female), said the words out.For example: LuHui yuan princess of mencius.The "child" here is not known to man, we usually understand such as the "son" "Confucius", but the name is yuan princess.

Married women is a combination of a variety of names, such as: have their name crown in front of the name, mark, some are like Mr Jiang, for their own name.Others on her husband's crown writings.finally, such as Wu Zi, her name in the "wu" refers to her husband Zheng Wugong writings.finally.

After qin and han dynasties, with the strengthening of the feudal autocratic, in terms of naming in addition to "five", "six" also pay attention to outside, also for some Wang Ba meaning words sound like a dragon, day, king, king and emperor, on, st, huang word it is prohibited to use.Of course some dynasties.

Zhou qin han single-name more than double word.

Follwed, "China can not have two", the spring and autumn annals "clause 2", "the ram biography" two receive ", may be the reason for the single more than two.The western han dynasty emperor 15, two people after;All 13 of the eastern han dynasty emperor single name.

The western han dynasty to the eastern jin, 54 emperor, after four, single-name ninety-four percent, after the eastern han dynasty, especially two jin southern and northern dynasties, the prevalence of Buddhism and Taoism, and at that time Buddha name prevailed: king kong, guinness, manjusri, mesh, who, prajnaparamita, gems can be seen everywhere, to take the Buddha.Monk, Buddha, king of moab, to the Vatican, haze, straight for Buddha's name is also a lot.

In the history of China, both in slave society and feudal society, there are always hierarchical patriarchal clan system.

From the eastern han dynasty to tang door way in middle of the system, will be divided into the surnamed family name, state, county, county name and so on the "name" of high and low level.After the song dynasty, the imperial examination system to replace the gate system, surname level gradually lost its status in society.In the now, our name is no longer have the high and low points, became the only real difference between symbols.

People in the yuan dynasty in Mongolian called fashion.

The tang dynasty, especially the Ming and qing dynasties era, word generation spectrum nomenclature is most prevalent in the society.At that time, people is all some meaning auspicious words, such as military, riches and honour, zhao city, tak cheung, longfeng, prosperity, etc.The Ming and qing dynasties era is characterized by genealogy named, has great influence.

Since the founding of new China, Chinese name change to roughly three stages: from the beginning to the end of the "cultural revolution" after the founding of nearly 30 years' time, contain political meaning of words into a more popular, and choose more commonly used two popular, explicit meaning of words, such as the "founding, ja, leap," is the product of that period;After the reform and opening up to the mid - 1990 - s, a new generation of parents less affected by the traditional thoughts, and the influence of the ideological trend of western culture, Hong Kong and Taiwan culture, with the political meaning of the noun is abandoned, increase in the number of words, fold the word meaning beautiful, such as "Dan", "ying", "lei", "nana", "jia jia", etc.In network and cultural pluralism is nearly 10 years of development, more and more people pursue personalized name, highlighted on the meaning more personal.

Throughout history, we have name, the name of the nickname.

Name is the name of the official citizenship, also known as the scientific name.Nick name is also called the birth, pet name, the fine print.Nickname many nickname, for parents to the kids about the nickname, we have specialized in later chapters will introduce, spoke not detailed here.Though, name and nickname comes from their parents or other elders, but has composed by name, nickname, both inside and outside.Name everyone can call, nickname is limited to more intimacy between people, such as: their family, friends and relatives, strangers even know what someone's nickname, also cannot call at will.

There is no special link between name and nickname.For example, a person's name call "small 2" or "big five", his name is completely can take more gentle "he attributes", "sea" and so on.Don't have any inner link between the two.