Language and Name Culture -- Exploring the Origins of East Asian Personal Names, Place Names, and Clan Names

Author: Zhang Huiying
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: The study of personal names, place names, and ethnic names can be extremely broad, encompassing everything from astronomy to geography. However, we focus on the following three aspects:
First, naming using kinship terms for respected elders, such as " (fù), (bà), (bó), (shū), (lǎo), (dà), (mǔ), (niáng), (gū), (jiě), (láng), (zǐ)," etc.
Second, naming using colloquial terms for social status, such as " (zhào), (lù), (fèng), (fān), (mán), (měng)," etc.
Third, word formation and naming using demonstratives like " (ā), (gè), (zhě - this), (nà)."
These naming phenomena not only reflect common features in Chinese dialects and ethnic languages but also reveal the ancient civilization of ancient China and even the entire Southeast Asia and East Asia.