According to the name list

Name is a reflection of national psychology.Such as folk have the custom of the preference for sons, this custom reflects on the name, is that some parents gave birth to her daughtersonHopes the next child, and reflected by the name of the daughter.About this, someone speak a joke, the effect that, have had five daughters of a pair of husband and wife, still want to give birth to a son, so he named respectively called her for his daughter (brother), take her, looking forward to her, want to her, ask her, gave birth to the sixth is still a daughter, such as had to reassure againTo have childrenThe idea of, named "trick".The joke, of course, is many years ago, but we see not hard, from national name is a reflection of the mentality is clear, direct!

The name of the person and sometimes obvious times and memorable.These, all with distinctive brand of The Times, a see these names, we can easily know the time they were born.In addition, such as chunsheng, and such names, is to commemorate the birth of time (spring) or place (yu, in henan province), has the obvious memorable.

We Chinese name or family or brothers and sisters out sometimes done on behalf of the word.Known as "a dream of red mansions", jia baoyu a Gu Zhen, Gu Lian, the treasure jade generation respondents Gu Huan, Gu Zhu etc, they are not brothers but belong to the same family, therefore the name of the Shared by the "king", as they list on behalf of the word.Similarly, jia baoyu parents Gu Jing, Gu Zheng Shared by "a", children jia qiang, Gu Rong Shared head, this "team" "4" is a sign of ranking.

Ranking the name, generally divided into brothers size order and strict word generation.There are both connection and difference.Both is the same, according to the family name word generation, broadly speaking, is a generation, are all brothers and sisters;Ranking is based on both the difference is that brother child birth has determined, and the generation time ranking is not born, even long before has confirmed.

In ancient China in order to distinguish out to the brothers, they have a name for the boss "(jar), the second for the secondary and third uncle, old four season.This way of ranking prevailed for many years, we can be seen from the many ancient celebrity's name out these marks.Second, such as Confucius after you.

After the han dynasty, due to the primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary only as the brothers four people name list, if brother more than four people is restricted, so someone added a large, medium and small, long, time, yuan, young and childish words for ranking.In some ancient names with this a few word, generally according to the meaning of words represented, I knew what he was.However, along with the our country more and more only children, this comes in the name of the method being out in the cold.