The ancients liked to use seniority in their names. Why do they use seniority less and less now?

Speaking of China people's names, it has a long history. People have been given names since the distant matriarchal society. At that time, the names were very random, but now people's names contain more and more contents. I believe everyone knows that a long time ago, people used to choose their names according to the generations in the genealogy, which is why many older people would call some younger people. Uncle? Or is it? Aunt? Wait, this is what we often say about seniority. But from now on, people have gradually forgotten the thing of seniority, and the main reason for this result is the influence of current culture.

In traditional culture, people's names are endowed with unique meanings, while the ancients named others not only for the sake of correcting people's names, but also for generations, so generations appeared. There are words about seniority in the names of the post-90 s, and most of the names of the post-90 s don't need words about seniority. After all, now more and more people are no longer bound by traditional culture, as long as they look good and make sense. So the main reason why people seldom use this thing is that modern people are influenced by the current culture.

In fact, another reason why the ancients ranked generations was to avoid having the same name as others. In ancient times, when people named their names, they often had words, numbers and so on. , and then became the last words of Jia's generation. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, actually started with his name. Zhu Chongba? That's his name, because he ranks eighth in the family. Later, with a certain influence, he felt that the name was no longer suitable for him, so he changed it to? Zhu Yuanzhang? .

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang also invented a naming method, which had a great influence on the naming of our country. He stipulated that when future generations take a name, there must be two words after the surname. The first word is seniority, and the second word can be taken at will.