Why are Japanese names so wonderful? How did they get their names?

#0 1 .

On the Internet, we often see all kinds of wonderful Japanese names collected by China netizens, either for fun or for entertainment. For example, "My grandson is smart and beautiful", "Strong anus", "My wife is real", "Spirited Away with a pig nose" and "The penis head is straight" and so on.

Many netizens laughed and asked questions at the same time. Why are Japanese names so wonderful? How did these people's parents get their names? If you want to understand the surname culture of a country, you must look for the reasons from the history of this country.

In the Yayoi period (contemporary with the Qin and Han Dynasties in China), Japanese civilization was still very low, and people only had first names, but no surnames. It was not until the 4th century A.D. that Yamato established the first imperial regime in Japanese history that it came out of its primitive state. At this time, China culture began to influence Japan, and the surname system also entered Japan during this period.

At that time, the Japanese rulers established class rule in order to "not want nobles", so they gave the nobles a surname. According to records, "the surname is named after the position held by the clan in the court or the place where the clan lived and ruled." For example, in the imperial court, the department in charge of offering sacrifices is called Taboo Department, and the clan in charge of Taboo Department is called Taboo Department, while Yun and Jin are the clans that rule the places near Yun He. In ancient Japan, "surname" was the title of surname to show its social and political status. There are dozens of surnames, which are similar to titles and are hereditary. There is an obvious hierarchical relationship between surnames. For example: Chen, Lian, Jun, Zhi, etc. "

It is worth mentioning that the emperor, as the supreme ruler, has no surname since ancient times, only a first name. Moreover, members of the royal family take names. Men should have the word "benevolence" and women should have the word "zi". For example, we are familiar with "Hirohito", "Virtue" and "Aiko". Because the Japanese believe that the emperor is a symbol of the god in heaven on earth, there is no need to use the human surname. In addition, members of the royal family will also use the title of "so-and-so Palace", such as Yukio Hatoyama, one of the culprits of the Nanjing Massacre. After the emperor's prince (princess) gets married, she will take her husband's surname.

Because the ancient emperors generally had many wives and concubines, the descendants of the emperors increased day by day. In order to save the expenses of the royal family, some distant relatives were sent to the local area by the emperor, given surnames and became nobles of the country. Such as Genji, Shi Ping, Tang Shi and Fujiwara. Among them, Genji Peace is a famous Japanese aristocratic family in Heian period.

Nobles also have a large number of collateral descendants, so some surnames have many branches. Taking Fujiwara as an example, they divided the familiar surnames such as Kondo, Ito, Endo and Kato.

In ancient times, only nobles and samurai could have surnames, so on the whole, ancient Japanese names were quite normal. Like Tokugawa, Oda, Shangshan, Abe, Jibei and so on.

#02 .

After Meiji Restoration, Japan began modernization reform. First, the feudal hierarchy was abolished, and nobles and warriors lost their original status. Then the emperor ordered all the people in the country to take their surnames. Although allowed, many people are not used to adding surnames to their names, and few respondents.

However, if the country wants to reform, it needs to establish modern household registration, taxation, military service and other systems, and it can be better managed by using surnames. It is conceivable that if people don't have surnames, there will be more than N Dalang and Jiro, which will bring confusion to management. Thus, in 1875, Japan promulgated the Order that Miao people must be called, which stipulated that "all citizens must take their surnames" and enforced it.

At that time, more than 90% people in Japan were civilians and had no names. What's more, at that time, the Meiji Restoration had just begun, and these people had almost no education and their literacy rate was very low. In order to complete the registration task, we can only take surnames at will, so there are some wonderful surnames.

Some people take anything they see as their last name. For example, if they live in mountainous areas, there are "under the mountain" and "mountain fields" and so on. Some people live at the ferry, and there will be "Watanabe" and "New Department". If there is a bamboo forest near home, there will be "inside the bamboo" and "under the bamboo" and so on; Those who live in the valley are "long valley" and "square valley"; In addition, Panasonic, Kurai, Nakata and Xiao Ye generally belong to this category.

Others take the animals they see as their surnames, such as Tian Niu, Xiongtian, Zhuzui and Youma. It is this kind of surname that leads to strange phenomena, especially some people's surnames include "pig" and "turtle". Of course, turtle has always been a symbol of good luck in China culture, but it has gradually become indecent in the evolution of popular culture. In Japanese culture, the cultural symbol of turtle has not changed, so it is not surprising to take "turtle" as the surname, but it is just a misunderstanding of popular culture in China.

The name of residence has also become an important source of Japanese surnames in modern times. For example, "Edogawa" and "Hasegawa" are famous rivers in Japan, and there is nothing wrong with taking them as surnames. The famous "My grandson" actually originated from my grandson city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, not because of relatives, but also named after a place name. If you understand this, you won't feel how wonderful this surname is. Besides, surnames like "My wife" and "My wife" are probably the same. For example, there is a "my wife island" in Japan, and an armored cruiser of the Japanese army was called "my wife" during the Russo-Japanese War.

There are also some people whose surnames are occupations, such as "paddy field" and "rice base" for farmers, "Kikukawa" for planting flowers, "doorman" for doormen, "pig feed" for pigs and so on. Among them, the familiar "raising a dog" is not to identify the dog as the father, but the founder of this surname keeps a dog.

And some people with a little culture take the surnames of historical celebrities as surnames, so there are Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ping, Tokugawa, Beitiao, Ida and so on. It's just (changed:, but) they are not related to these historical celebrities. In Doraemon, the "source" of Shuiben Jingxiang is the surname of an ancient nobleman, but it is probably also used by her ancestors.

#03 .

The above is only a part of the origin of Japanese surnames, and there are many other sources, so I won't list them here. It is the modern Japanese who take surnames at will, and most of them are not well educated, which makes the whole country have more than 1 10000 surnames and all kinds of exotic names.

It is worth noting that some Japanese names are actually not imported, but have been "blackened" by contemporary China's online vocabulary. For example, the name "sex", which is normal in Japan, has a different meaning in the minds of China otaku. There are "Tortoise" and "My Grandson", both because of cultural barriers, and we don't understand the misunderstanding caused by their cultural background. In addition, in the development of Japanese characters, the meanings of some words have changed, resulting in different interpretations, which is why people think Japanese names are wonderful. For example, "keeping a dog" is a famous example.

Many surnames in Japan are hastily raised by a group of uneducated civilians, so it is normal for all kinds of foreign surnames to appear. We must pay attention to the cultural differences between the two countries and avoid joking.