How can Chinese now be famous and have words?

Hello The decline of the table character is related to the movement of breaking the four olds in the mainland and the suppression of intellectuals, and it is believed that the "table character" is a symbol of feudal intellectuals, and many people abandon the word and do not use it. Around the time of the May Fourth New Culture Movement, the Chinese people began to abandon their characters and numbers. The reason is that it is more troublesome, and it has a certain distance from the general public (in the past, most literate people used "words", and words were generally given by teachers or family elders), so they were discarded by the new youth as an old feudal thing.

In addition, in the Qing Dynasty, people's "names" generally changed from single names with the ancient style of the Qin and Han dynasties to double names, reducing the phenomenon of duplicate names, and the character also lost its original identification function to a certain extent (in the past, people used a single name to take names, and it was inevitable to have duplicate names. And the characters can generally be distinguished because even if they have the same surname and the same name, the characters (numbers) may not be the same, and people in social life, because of the relationship of mutual respect, basically do not call their names, but use the characters (numbers) as addresses). Therefore, "character (number)" has gradually faded out of the Chinese personal surname reference system.

In addition, there is also the problem of breaking the four olds and the household system. At that time, many people's genealogies were burned.

Some people still have it, maybe the times are different, there are not so many exquisite, even in ancient times, only a few people had it.

Times are changing, social ideas and habits are changing dramatically, for example, people's names are part of the change. It is well known that for the ancients, in addition to their first and last names, they often had a character, and the first name was generally called by the parents, and outsiders generally called a person's character. For example, our great ancient poet Li Bai has a name and a character, his name is white, the word is too white, and the name is Qinglian layman.

In fact, before the founding of New China, as long as they were scholars or some people with wealth and status, they all knew how to write, while ordinary people generally did not pay attention to this. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state needed to conduct population statistics, and in order to facilitate the census of the population, the word was abolished.

So why did the ancients take words? This matter can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and there is such a saying in the "Book of Rites: Tan Gong": "Young name, crown character".

In other words, under the ritual system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, three months after the birth of a child, the father would name him, and when the man was 20 years old and the woman was 15 years old, the parents would choose characters for them.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, people felt that the name was not enough to express a person's state, so they derived the saying of "alias", such as the famous "poet immortal" Li Bai, whose alias was "Qinglian Jushi".

In these years, although "name" and "character" are both for a person, but the usage is very different, "name" is generally only used as a self-title and used in formal documents, while "character" is used by peers, classmates, and superiors to subordinates, it shows respect and cordiality to each other. Therefore, in the eyes of the ancients, it was very rude to call a person by his "name" to his face.

In this way, this tradition was continued until the founding of New China, and there were fundamental changes. However, in fact, as early as 1911, after the Xinhai Revolution, people's thinking about "name" and "character" has changed a little, and some people with advanced ideas began to advocate "oneism", and the name and character were gradually unified, and people only had "name" and no longer took "word". Of course, it was only after liberation that this matter was really carried out.

Generally speaking, in the time of the ancients, the people who could take the "word" were all "scholars", that is, the traditional knowledge elements of the feudal society. After the Xinhai Revolution, the imperial examination system was abolished, so the "character" had no meaning to exist.

The word is a supplementary explanation of the name, and modern people write in the vernacular, and they have discarded such a naming habit in life, because it is more troublesome, and the household registration management allows two names.

The difference between "name" and "character" is reflected in the body of "scholar", "scholar" is to talk about "etiquette", "scholar" and people intersect, pay attention to "do not look at incivility, do not speak incivility", when the class of "scholar" "disappears", "name" and "character" will lose the "soil" of existence, like the former "surname" and "clan" converged. The disappearance of "shi" was a matter after the founding of New China, and the new China no longer recognized the privileged "shi", and the "shi" disappeared, and the "shi" disappeared, and the "name" and "character" merged.

Because of the continuous progress of civilization, it has slowly become simpler, and naturally it is relatively simple.

Now there are still some literati who give themselves words, numbers or something.

Most of them don't use "words" because they don't specialize in it.

Under the current household registration system, ZF registers the name of the people, and the name needs to comply with the norms of the "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Name Registration (First Draft)".

The length of the name is between 2 and 6 characters. There is no word requirement.

Based on the current household registration system, when living in society, basically the name recognized by ZF is used, weddings, funerals, etc., and there is no scene where "characters" are used.

In the old society, why did there be words? Because at that time, there was no perfect household registration system, resulting in names could not solve many life problems, and most of the illiterate people almost did not have official names, such as Liu Bang's mother "Liu Yuan", which may follow people for a lifetime. I don't even take my name seriously, and I still count on words.

In the old society, the word was generally a matter of concern to the reader, the name was used to record the family inheritance, often unable to be autonomous, the word was used to flaunt their ideals and pursuits, so the name was often decided by the parents, and the word was decided by themselves.

Friends are equal, communicate in society, use basic words, and call the parents of the family, so they will say their names.

Now it's been downplayed because the application scenario has almost been lost.