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说国学主题——中国人的取名之道 Is there any Chinese names that you like? Or any of you has a Chinese name? How you choose Chinese names? There are a lot of things influence Chinese people choose their names, even choose the country’s name or the dynasty name or the street name. We care about surname and also we care about the family name. Let us first talk about how our family name come from. China is the only country which inherit a relatively complete family name, we have a long history, you know, like over 5000 years. And many family names were inherited despite the war and the revolution. You know, In Japan, they use Japan Chronology, which means one “tenno, mikado” the empire of Japan, will represent one year, in the Meiji year, “ Meiji year is come from China’s change of the world, which means the empire face to the south and manager the country with bright.” in meiji year, that the mikado said we need to have more family names, at that time Japan only have given names, so a lot of Japan people choose the location of they live as their family name , like” Murakami Haruki” Chinese people in the ancient times first choose family names with “ women” as a part of their family name, because at that time we are a matriarchy society, you can see that Chinese language is hieroglyph language, which means the words are just like the represent stuff, like my family name “姜’or the zhou dynasty “姬”，like the first empire in Qing Dynasty “ 嬴”you can also see our family name word”姓“，which means “gir”。 And we are not only have family names, we also have “style name”, we believe call a person’s name is in polite so we prefer to call peoples’ style name, Korea and Janpan had learned the similar things from us, they call differently when they met friends or elder people, a style name is what our family give us to want us live like that. Like “Yue fei”style name is “pengju” which means spread wings and fly away”. Confucius’s father’s family name is not “ kong”, his father’s style name is “孔文“，