What is the meaning of the name?

The meanings of names include: referential meaning, cultural meaning, spur meaning, inheritance meaning, generalization meaning and symbolic meaning.

1, referential meaning:

Personal name is a specific name symbol given to each individual by human beings in order to distinguish them. It is a sign to distinguish individual differences between people through verbal information. It is a tool for people to express, communicate and spread information in social and cultural exchanges. Because of names, human beings can communicate normally and orderly, so everyone has a name of their own. (1) There is no complete one-to-one correspondence between a person's name and the object of reference. A name can refer to several people, which is a homonym phenomenon. In real life, although the absolute number of homophones is large, in a certain communication environment, the probability of homophones is relatively small, which generally does not cause big misunderstandings; (2) The situation of many people is more complicated. For example, a person has a nickname, a scientific name, and a nickname used when he was a child. If it weren't for relatives and friends, most people wouldn't know when they grow up. There is no misunderstanding about this situation. Another example is that a person may have nicknames, such as Song Jiang's nickname Timely Rain, Li Kui jy's nickname Black Cyclone, and Wu's nickname Zhi Duo Xing. These names will not only confuse names with reality, but also deepen people's understanding of Song Jiang, Li Kui jy and Wu Yong, making people unforgettable. But sometimes it can also cause confusion. For example, Lu Xun has many pen names, some of which are Zhang, Zhao and Zhang. The purpose of using them is to confuse people's eyes and avoid the eyes and ears of the Kuomintang book and newspaper procuratorate. (3) The objects referred to by names can be people who actually exist in reality or history, and can also refer to fictional characters created by people's imagination. Journey to the West has created a mythical world, as well as a world of names such as the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand. The immortal artistic images such as Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Wang Xifeng and Granny Liu in A Dream of Red Mansions also make their names have long-lasting vitality.

2. Cultural significance:

Name is one of the veins of China's famous culture, and it is a social and humanistic symbol based on blood inheritance. Names not only reflect the culture of rule of law in China, but also reflect the culture of parents. The quality of a name can directly reflect parents' understanding of jurisprudence, and parents with high cultural attainments will definitely give their children a meaningful name. Some names are linked by surnames, which breaks through the symbolic meaning of names and gives them unique meaning. For example, Bi Ye, whose surnames are Bi Ye and Ye, is named accidentally, which means "Lvyuanye". "Ma Shitu" means that the old horse knows the way, "going around" means "going around" and "knowing the horsepower from a distance". Some names are meaningful or taken from ancient times, such as Wang, Bing Xin and Zhang Henshui. There is a kind of "ambitious", such as recruiting younger brothers, following younger brothers, loving younger brothers, leading younger brothers, and leading younger brothers (also called younger brothers). During the Six Dynasties, Buddhism and Taoism prevailed, and many Buddhists liked to use Sanskrit as their names or characters. Some of them are not Buddhists, but they also like to be named in Sanskrit. Buddhists use the words "monk, Buddha, haze, wisdom and purity" to name them. According to Japan's History of East Studies, Volume 3 12, there are 122 people with the word "monk", 39 people with the word "tan" and 24 people with the word "Buddha" in the names of the Six Dynasties. The names of people who believe in Taoism are often "Tao, Zu, Xuan, De and Ling". Such as Li Daoyuan, Tan Daoji and Xiao Daocheng (Qi Gaozu). This naming method has always influenced later generations, such as the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei, whose word Mojie is composed of Sanskrit "Vimojie" (meaning "pollution-free"). In the Yuan Dynasty, Sanskrit was often used to name Misha, Dharma, Siddhartha, Rona and Shuba. It embodies a religious and cultural color.

3. Meaning of bone spur:

Although the name is a gift from parents to their children, if the child's performance does not match the name, it will definitely be criticized, so a good name will spur the child. If parents imply that children are aboveboard in name, then children should always urge themselves to do things honestly, work hard and work hard.

4. Inheritance significance:

Names are the thoughts handed down by the elders of the name owners, and they are also the memories of others' own logical thoughts. Many elders believe that the family can only be passed down if the family name is crowned and the family genealogy is used.

5. General significance:

Generally speaking, a person's name can only refer to an individual, but not to the connotation of the individual. However, sometimes due to the distinctive characteristics or great influence of the individual, the name of the person also has the connotation characteristics of the accused person, and the phenomenon that proper nouns are transformed into ordinary nouns sometimes occurs.

6. Symbolic significance:

The basic function of a person's name is reference, and the referential meaning is the core meaning of a person's name. Correspondingly, the internal meaning of the language materials used in the names of people is gradually blurred and becomes a simple reference symbol. For example, "Gao" is an adjective, which means that the distance from bottom to top is large, but as a surname, Gao does not mean "large distance". "Bear" is a general term for animals in Xiong Ke, but when it is used as a surname, there is no necessary relationship between the surname and the meaning of "bear". Same last name, same first name. So meaningless auxiliary words can be named. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a phenomenon of adding the word "no" to the names of people, such as Shen Buhai, Qin and Jin of North Korea who didn't believe in Korea, Chu's appointment, and the inequality of Lu. Others use the word "zhi" between names. For example, in Zuo Zhuan, there is the power of candle and the push of intermediary; In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the use of "Zhi" became more prosperous. For example, the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi's home three substitutes "zhi", Wang Xizhi's descendants have mystery, conciseness, symbol, operation and worship, and his grandchildren have vivid and quiet words. The notional words have a similar situation. I like to use "Lao", "Lao" and "Weng" in the names of people in the Song Dynasty, such as Hu Tanglao, Wang, Meng Tanglao, Wang Tinglao, Liu, Xu Qinglao, Liu Chenweng and Wang Jiweng. Therefore, the words used in the name should not be understood in a rational sense, otherwise it will make a joke.

Naming points:

1. The name must match the individual's innate numerology, so as to complement each other and play a leading role in the numerology track. However, this kind of numerology cooperation is by no means a few golden wood, fire, water and earth in the eight characters. If there is less, it will be supplemented, and if there is more, it will not be supplemented. If so mechanically unified, numerology will be too simple and the accuracy of numerology will be lost. Using this counting method to find out the names of fire, water and earth in Jin Mu is an objection to numerology and a misinterpretation of it. You can learn names in one hour by this method, but you can't learn profound numerology without several years of hard work.

It's not what we lack in life, but what we use in life. Only in this special energy field that makes life can you really have your own five elements. For example, a child with eight characters, Ding Chou, Wu Bing and a famous old man in Ding Wei, said that he was short of golden water in his life and needed to add it, so he was called "Golden Rain". The shopkeeper was not at ease, so he asked someone who opened a famous museum. After reading it, the man said that there is a lot of water in his life, no soil, only excessive water. It is best to use the word "A" to make soil into water. The old man said that it is easy to understand to use gold water. He used five lines of figures. People who open famous museums say that water is so soilless that it makes no sense. Look carefully, he used the five elements method. In the true sense of fate, both of them are wrong. People who know numerology can see it at a glance. This life is a self-improvement case, and it is necessary to use fire. For example, a successful boss opened a wood processing factory at the end of 1999 and asked a famous museum to be named "Golden Crown". His naming theory is that wood is rich in gold (one water, three trees, two gold and one soil), and gold should be strengthened. Unexpectedly, Chen Geng and Sims lost money in two years. This is his eight characters: Gui Mao Yi Mao Wei Xin Xin Mao analyzed that his eight characters are made of wood, gold is taboo, and his eight characters see that Geng Xin's unitary gold is ruined. The use of the name "Golden Crown" undoubtedly increased the loss of the board factory.

The origin of the name:

A first name consists of a surname and a surname. In the pre-Qin period, surnames were different, surnames were unchanged, but surnames were constantly changing. In ancient times, it was the earliest matriarchal society. Because people didn't know much about physiological phenomena at that time, they only knew that mom didn't know dad. In order to resist the harsh environment, they lived with tribes composed of children born to the same mother, and each tribe had a totem of worship, so they called themselves "clan tribes" in combination with totems (there were no words at that time), and their surnames were born. With the increase of population and the formation of division of labor and cooperation, people have an understanding of the physiological phenomena of men and women, and the dominant position is gradually highlighted by the advantages of male physiological conditions, so there has been a transition from matrilineal clan to paternal clan. At this time, tribal leaders were elected, and in order to distinguish the children born to different fathers, the same father group was formed according to the fathers. With the increase of surplus labor, the distribution is biased towards tribal leaders or patriarchal groups with dominant population. These dominant groups have gradually grown, and the weak have been eliminated for a long time, gradually forming a patriarchal society with a single ancestor. According to the author's speculation, Suirenshi, Fu, Nuwa and Shennong in the "san huang period" were all in a transitional period, and the real patriarchal society was not established until the Yellow Emperor period. The patriarchal society produced characters, and in order to show the difference, it gradually formed the "surname" of the offspring of the same father (called surname at that time, such as Shuowen: "Huangdi lived in Jishui, taking Ji's surname, and Zhou people inherited his surname." )。 The eight famous surnames in ancient times: Ji, Yao, Gui, Gui, Jiang, Gui, Gui and Gui, all come from the female side, which shows that this is a clan group handed down by some different female ancestors, indicating that surnames are the continuation and transformation of surnames. Then, with the increase of members, in order to pursue more means of production, clan tribes began to divide, and men with similar blood ties led them out to establish another tribe. In order to distinguish the descendants of different groups of the same father, they are called "XXX", and the meaning of "XXX" has changed. It is no longer a large-scale clan tribe with different surnames, but a small tribe with the same surname, such as the ancient "five emperors": the Yellow Emperor (with Xiong's family) and the "Xiong's family". After the establishment of feudal society in Xia Dynasty, with the increase of population, the division of surnames became more refined, especially in Zhou Dynasty. Because the Zhou Emperor enfeoffed a large number of princes, and the princes were divided in detail according to the patriarchal clan system, many branches appeared under the same surname and clan, and each branch had different names according to its ancestors, that is, "surname", so surnames began to increase rapidly to show the difference. As Zheng Qiao's Tongzhi Genealogy in the Southern Song Dynasty said: "Surnames are unified by the place where their ancestors were tested; The surname is not divided by his descendants. " For example, Zhou is Ji's surname. Later, Ji's surname was divided into Montessori, Ji's, Shi's and Shi's. Looking at the surnames of the Zhou Dynasty, surnames continue the ancient tradition to show the inheritance of blood, but surnames have been changing. Surname is not only the inheritance of blood, but also the symbol of identity, and it also has the function of distinguishing from others. For example, noble, famous, cheap and famous. And according to the identity will also change, for example, Wu Zixu was originally Wu, after he was killed, his son fled to Qi, and his status was not as good as before, so he changed to "Wang Sun". During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with the collapse of the patriarchal clan system (the so-called "ritual collapse and bad music"), the old surname system gradually became chaotic, and surnames became more and more diversified, or ancestral surnames, or place names, occupations, official positions, residences, etc. There are many kinds, very rich. For example, "Three Years of Zuo Gong" records that the doctor of the State of Jin said: "The Gong of Jin has been exhausted. As soon as he listens, the government will be humble, and the branches and leaves of his family will fall first, and the government will follow. There are eleven clans in the scorpion clan, and only the sheep tongue is there. " Yang Tonggou, Ji surname, Yang Tongshi, Ming Gou, word uncle. It can be seen that the surname at that time was already very complicated. After the reunification of the Qin Dynasty, surnames gradually merged and unified. The Tongzhi Genealogy in the Southern Song Dynasty records that "when the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms, all descendants were Shu Ren, or they took the country as their surname, or the surname as their surname, and all lost their surnames. Since then, the surname and surname have become one. " . This tradition has been passed down to the present, and it has not changed much since Qin and Han Dynasties. After the last name, let's look at the first name. Surname is a symbol of personal family blood, which is shared with others; The name represents the individual's own symbol and is exclusive to the individual; And names and characters have different origins. In ancient times, people were born famous, but they didn't have words until they were adults. "Book of Rites Quli" records that "men are twenty, and they are crowned by words. Before the father, the child's name; Before the monarch, my name. The woman promised to get married, and she was embarrassed. " That is to say, both men and women are adults, just using words to express adulthood, and then people call them by their first names to show respect. But in front of the father, the emperor and the king, no matter who you call yourself or what you call yourself, you can only call yourself by his first name, not by your respectful name. Moreover, the words of the ancients are not for everyone, but for people with aristocratic status or opportunities to receive education. Because before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, reading and literacy were not enjoyed by ordinary people, and ordinary people rarely had the opportunity to learn. It was not until Confucius "taught without distinction" that they had the opportunity to receive education. Since then, most people have their own characters except their own names. When the ancients took names, there was a certain relationship between names and words. Generally speaking, they set off each other, complement each other, explain each other, or explain each other, or the opposite, or the same, so "characters" are also called "ideographs". In addition to names, some literati and intellectuals also give themselves numbers to express their ideals, wishes or ambitions; There are nicknames given by others, and some are called "posthumous title" after death. Later generations use this number to address them for the purpose of respect.