When I was a child living in a state-owned enterprise compound, a group of seven or eight or nine years old crazy girls get together all day long, jumping skin to pick up marbles, steal each mother’s high heels to wear.
Suddenly one day, the “Pearl” fire, to provide the little girls with the perfect fantasy material, so the house is fully upgraded, Zhang’s aunt Xiao Wang sister have become the Princess Hongyu, Mei Xiang gege. Princess Gege can only have so two or three, the rest have to be someone when the tea pouring little girl, the fierce Queen Mother, so we can only take turns as the main character. One day it was the turn to be a princess, so excited that they could not sleep the first night. When the princess can be a lot of good, you can dress recklessly, the rightful twist of the cat walk as an elegant lady, for me, the most exciting point, but you can give yourself a name, but also to the personal two “little maids” name. The first time I read the “Dream of the Red Chamber”, I was able to find out the name of the maid.
At that time, the first time chew “Dream of the Red Chamber”, the word is not yet recognized in full, seven aunts and eight aunts father, brother, son, nephew, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and sister-in-law that a messy relationship, not to mention. Especially Daiyu to the Rongguo House before those few chapters, there is no Tianxian sister handsome brother, all some worldly affairs, of course, children feel no interest.
One day swallowed it whole and turned to “Leng Zixing speech Rongguofu”. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you are getting into. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re looking for. Why do Jia House also enjoy this commonplace?”
This sentence can amaze me. To say that “Tanchun”, “Qichun” such names, there are feelings and scenery, is not vulgar, but still be criticized, I those “Yu Mei” “fragrant snow “I really have no face to see people.
Dream of the Red Chamber” in the name is really very elegant.
Throughout the ages, the names of the little girls mostly refer to things narrative. There is more or less a class distinction here. You see, men’s names are generally all false references, most of them are sent to the character, or to promote the family ranking, because the gentleman famous, not to play with. The maids and boys were no different from the objects, so you can take the name of the object, buy and sell transactions, or play with, are cheap. The elegant part of “Red” is that even the names of the maids are also made good. Yi Hong Yuan, not to mention, “Raider” “Qing Wen” such a name, of course, is still a bit gaudy, put out to do Miss name also makes. Even the common first-class, “Siqin” “Siqi” are elegant, “Zi Cuckoo” “Snow Goose” can also be into the picture The name “Ping’er” is such a simple and clear atmosphere.
Besides, the serious masters, “Bao Yu”, “Yuan Chun” although at first glance straightforward, after all, there are allusions. Just like the Da Guan Yuan sisters up poetry club, “Begonia Society” “Peach Blossom Society” certainly vulgar some, but for the real thing, it is not vulgar. If you look at the other sisters, “Daiyu” certainly also has a “jade” character, but this “Dai” character is really well used, immediately off the vulgar; Shi Xiangyun’s name is also, “cloud” is not rare. The word “cloud” is not uncommon, but the word “Xiang” is a dazzling match. This effect is similar to the legendary Dongpo’s concubine Chaoyun, if she is called what “beautiful cloud” “Qiu Yun”, the same elegant things written into the palm of the story are to reduce the score.
But the best name, gentle and elegant when pushing Xing Cui Yan, atmospheric dash is the number of Wang Xifeng. When I was young, I hadn’t read the lines of “smoke in the green of the cui”, but I thought that Xing’s name was really leisurely and wild, and when I saw the poem, I was so amazed that I almost pestered my parents to change my name to “Cui Yan” in my family register. Luckily, on second thought, I didn’t dare to surprise them with such a good name.
There is a lot more flexibility in naming people in books than in life. According to the author wants to shape the character, the fate of ah, the plot needs ah what to play.
More famous, Gu Long warrior is particularly fond of taking names from the poetry. For example, Bai Yujing, Ye Qucheng, Gao Yuhan or something, a glance really looks like the wind. He took the name and writing style, are more poetic, romantic color, but also slightly exaggerated. For example, the name Li Xunhuan, dashing that is certain; Jing Wu life sounds enough to have “ten steps to kill a person, a thousand miles without leaving a name” of the chivalrous model; Meng Xing soul this name is clear and dashing, very a bit of the taste of nature’s son; not to mention writing a fluttering good son will have to be dressed in white, called the name of such narcissism. He also particularly loves to use the compound surname. The compound surname is relatively rare, things are rare, and some of them are poetic, such as “Simon” “East” “Murong” ” Nangong” category. This name is probably my favorite among the names of the ancient dragons. Knowingly do, but still can not help but buy.
Compared to the next Jin warrior to write the name of the characters, even a “Book and Sword Enemies” when the age is still young love and hate is still simple and dry, Chen Jia Luo Huo Qing Tong such names are also subtle end elegant.
I once liked the name of Jin Yong’s daughter. For example, Ren Ying Ying, sounds like a small daughter’s delicate, but contains “Ying Ying a water between, pulse can not speak” poetic meaning; Yin Susu’s name is probably also from the “19 ancient poems”, may be “slender out of the hands” sentence. I’m just guessing. Although I do not like Wang Yuyan girl, but I have to admit that her name is really good, beautiful, but not image, as the so-called beauty to the soul of the poem. Can be compared to probably only Mu Wanqing, “water wood, Qing Hua, Qing Yang Wanxi”, is really natural.
Other sources, such as Li Qiushui, Cheng Ling Su, Zhu A Zi, it is not necessary to count. There are also Zhou Zhiruo, Li Ruan Zhi, Ruan Xingzhu this dry good name, unified characteristics, is poetic, but not gaudy, which and “Dream of the Red Chamber” and other names to the ladies of the family in the same lineage.
I’m afraid that the earlier books did not care about the names of people. Especially the daughter’s name. Women do not show their faces, not to mention the possibility of building a career, the word “Yan” to make up for it. So “Cui Yingying” “Li Xiangjun” person, there is really nothing to say, not as good as “Hongniang”, there is a sharp energy.
On the contrary, the female school books, since they are self-established name, can be a chic good name. Liu Ruyi’s name comes from everyone knows, “I see the green hills more charming, material green hills should see me as is”, and atmospheric, and naive, no wonder to be beautiful champion Qinhuai. There is also “Gu Hengbo”, looking at the posture, charming eyes, but without a vulgar word. The name of the Taoist temple to do business, the name naturally also with immortal interest, even the personal little girl’s nickname are special, called green chiao.
But it seems that the name, the best is the Bai Juyi family waist light “Xiaoban” girl. White boss can write “Pipa Xing”, “charcoal seller”, but in private is a veteran of the animal song, dancing girls. And smug, nothing to write down the family’s feast. His old man “ten years of spring cries into warbler tongue, three suspicious of the old ugly for moth eyebrows”, take out to come out of the sear without blushing at all, is really a thin-hearted and ungrateful true villain. Raised so many girls, the name naturally also took a lot of. From the poem can be seen, there are “diamond” “valley”, “red raw” “purple raw” and “spring grass” a number of. But these names are also general, except for “cherry Fan Su mouth, willow small barbaric waist”, the verse is not vulgar, the name of the person also has a style.
The real name, more difficult than in the book millions of points.
First of all, you can not make up your mind what the surname. The Water Margin” Wu Song disliked Jiang Munshen’s surname, asking people “why not Li.” Zhang Chao old man into a fetish for the vulgar, this good derivative to expand, said, “cover the surname is really good and bad – such as China, such as willow, such as clouds, such as Su, such as Joe, are extremely charming; if the hair also, Lai also, Jiao also, cattle also, are dust in the eyes and thorns in the ears.”
This can be said to be disgusting, but it is not entirely without reason. When it comes to pretentious people, such as me, occasionally really will wonder: why I am not “Song”, “Liu”, “Su”, “Ning “it?
This is a bit like the name of the protagonist in the network novels, you see that the suave, dashing and domineering Wang Sun Gongzi, cold-blooded president or something, not all surnamed “cold”, “Ling” such ah such frozen three feet of the surname it. Generally also with a smart ABC can not type out the name.
Mr. Qian Zhongshu old man this name is elegant enough, right, change others, up and down a hundred years are not a few people when the “Zhong Shu” two words. Although the Wuxi Qian talent, “Qian” this surname, do not want to grounded are difficult. But Yang Jiang’s name is particularly good, and literary, and subtle, the so-called real lady model. Of course, the Republic of China period of the girl, the name of a lot of good sound. For example, the name Lin Huiyin, literally very atmospheric, but the rhyme is extremely gentle and beautiful, not to delay.
The second is the name of this thing, very “spell dad” (or mother, or grandparents grandparents ……).
For example, the four sisters of Hefei, may be to pick up the “and” generation of the word cheap, how to take the name are good, especially “Zhang Yunhe” and “Zhang Chonghe”. And the four girls name in the second word with “two legs”, meaning independent and self-improvement, but also that the future of the daughter is to marry out. Really elegant. Speaking of which, by the way, I must also say that Shen Congwen and Zhou Chuanjia are also good names.
Although to this generation it seems that the big bosses prefer to give their own sons and daughters to the good name, Bao Bao Bei Bei what, planting seedlings and what, that generation or take the elegant route.
Zhu Ziqing’s own name is good, the so-called clear since the Qing, dashing atmosphere, daughter called Zhu Cai Zhi, there is a sense of movement, there is a static picture of beauty, simply can be painted. Mr. Zhang Shizhao’s adopted daughter is named Zhang Hanzhi, which is also a good name. By the way, Zhang Yihe is also a good name.
One of the more interesting ones is the origin of Long Yingtai’s name. She wrote about it in her book. She asked her parents how they gave themselves such a manly name, but the old man said that they had prepared two names, one Long Yingtai and one Long Sanjiao. Hey, so it really should be satisfied.
People around, there are a few names especially beautiful. A high school classmate’s name is “Wen Tong”, can be into the poem, can be into the painting, can be into the music, rhyme and sound beautiful. A few of us sometimes discussed behind the scenes, only to envy the fact that they had a scholar father who studied Chinese architecture. There is also a girl who is not familiar with, named “Xin Evening”. All of a sudden, what “stop and sit in love with the maple forest evening”, “sunset pity the grass, the earth loves the evening” sentence hit the mind in a flurry, let me envy for several days.
To say that living in contemporary times, but for nothing to pick up the two opportunities to take the name to be pleased.
The first of course is the network. In 1997-98, I was still an elementary school child, but jumped to the Internet to fill the adults, be careful not necessarily be demolished. High-end places I can not mix down, but only in the anime forum ah what the above pretend high school students.
At that time I was particularly fascinated by two things, Clamp’s manga, and Harry Potter. It was still a BBS era, and I was working hard in the two biggest gathering places for Clamp and Harvard fans. I had to rush home as fast as I could during the two-hour break at school every day, grab two bites of food, immediately squatting in the forum, and wondering what screen name I should give myself. The name that I used for a long time later was actually very beautiful. At that time I was memorizing the Song lyrics, the intention of such as flowers and beautiful women and the night of the bright moon is the most resistant.
The whole of the modern stuff was only then started to read, including the online articles of people of the same age (of course, in fact, less than three, five, seven years older than me). At that time, a girl in the Clamp forum wrote a beautiful article, from the vanilla beauty to the royal Mao flow in one go. She had a period called “wind and clouds”. This name I still like. There was also a girl named Violin at the beginning of Ha.com, and the name used elsewhere was “Van Shiling”. I know it’s Violin, but I still think it’s a beautiful translation. The sound is like Albinoni’s violin. This is similar to the meaning of Fei Leng Cui, Fontainebleau.
The second is to take the English name.
We, as a group, were probably assigned names like Mary or Linda in English class when we were kids, but when we grew up, we would mostly pick a slightly more unique one on our own. In fact, when we go abroad, we may not want to use English names. However, my Chinese name is not only unpronounceable by Americans, but also easily confused with a common phrase, so an English name is essential.
I don’t really like English names, because taking a Chinese name is a short answer question, but an English name is basically a multiple choice question. No more beautiful options, no more novel and chic poetry.
Chinese names can constitute a poem or a painting in themselves, but English names have to rely on the story behind the origin. For example, why Helen is beautiful, it is because of the beautiful woman in Troy; why Julia is atmospheric, it is related to the Queen Mother. Counting up, my favorite names probably have to be Breatric, Annabel and Emelye (Emily is not, the rhyme is not beautiful). The first is the lily-like girl in “The Divine Comedy”, the second is the dead beauty in Edgar Allan Poe’s writing, and the last is the noble daughter who prayed to Deanna for chastity in the knight’s tale in “The Canterbury Tales”.
But these names are afraid to use, too inviting bad.
American friends I know, there is little enthusiasm for marriage, but some people like to think about what to name their future children.
Creativity is still quite limited. It’s just the Archangel (Michael) and the Macedonian Emperor (Alexander), the good devotee (Christ, Christian, Christine, Christina, Christie…) and the pure Virgin (Mary, Marie, Maria, Maire…). …) to pick and choose from. Whenever this happens, I go through the “Qing Wan” and “Ying Ying”, “Yin Li Ting” and “Lu Cheng Feng” in my mind. I was thinking of “Qing Wan” and “Ying Ying”, “Yin Li Ting” and “Lu Cheng Feng”.
Maybe my English is not home after all, let alone French. Maybe I will never be able to learn home.
For me, there are poems in English, written by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Shelley and Yeats; there are poems in French, by the hand of Hugo and Baudelaire; I can’t read Spanish poems, but I remember many lines of Neruda. Poets can create poems in English, French, Spanish, Latin, German ……, and create poetic realms and wonderlands.
Only Chinese is poetry itself.
Because it carries with it endless possibilities for creation. Only by putting in the talent and passion of a poet can it be organized.
When a father or mother chooses a name for a child, whether it is “Ruhua” or “Cui Yan”, it carries with it an infinite poetic meaning of its own.
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