Why do people have names?

the origin of the name China's name has a long history. In ancient times, the dominant idea of creating surnames was to take matrilineal as the origin and female surnames as the core. Textual research on many legends about surnames and the use of words in some surnames reflected this basic consciousness to varying degrees. The creation of characters is the crystallization of predecessors' experience and wisdom, and it is also a sign that human beings have entered civilization. The original meaning of the words "surname" and "first name" well illustrates this point. According to Xu Shen in Shuo Wen Jie Zi in Han Dynasty, "surname" is also born, which is an interpretation of "surname" from "female" and "birth". The previous sentence said that surname is born with "birth", that is, people are born with "surname". What is surname? The last sentence is an answer. The study of surname consists of two parts: female and birth. Here, female is mother, and female and birth are birth mothers. People's lives are brought by birth mothers, and people's surnames are also derived from birth mothers. Nomenclature researchers believe that the "surname" of China originated in the ancient matriarchal commune period. The creation of the word "surname" reflects the historical characteristics of the matriarchal commune period. At that time, several generations of descendants of the same mother lived together, and the original collective formed by this blood relationship was the clan. The name "clan" was destined by later generations. The surname of the surname is the clan, and the clan is the big family with the same surname and ancestor. From this, it can be concluded that the names of Chinese people were born in ancient times when writing was founded, while the Chinese nation has a history of about 4, years. Only after writing was produced did names have the function of personal writing marks. The legendary ancient tablets in ancient times, such as Nvwa 、 Fuxi, Shennong, Huangdi and Yandi, were the creation giants. Their names were circulated among the people long before the writing was created. Only after the writing was produced, these legends were sorted out and recorded by later generations. According to textual research, in ancient China, surnames came first, and then became famous. Surnames refer to the combination of surnames and surname. According to Zuo Zhuan's Eight Years of Seclusion, Jiande, a childless man, was born with his surname changed, so he was named after the land he was born in. A brief preface to the clan of Tongzhi, three generations ago, surnames were all divided into two, men called their surnames, and women called their surnames. The surname can be different. Surnames can not be married, so there are different surnames, different surnames and ordinary surnames. If the surnames are different, marriage can be passed; People with different surnames can't get married. After three generations, surnames are merged into one. According to statistics, there are 5,66 surnames found in literature in China, including 3,484 single surnames, 2,3 compound surnames and 146 three-character surnames. Of course, this does not include four-character surnames, five-character surnames and surnames without books, as well as surnames translated by Mongolians and Manchu people who moved to the Central Plains in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.