Chinese Naming Culture 中国姓名文化（英汉对照）.pptVIP

Contents Categories of Chinese Names The surnames by origin The structure of a Chinese name The central stock of Chinese names Categories of English Names The structure of English names The central stock of English names Categories of Chinese Names Chinese name is made up of a family name (姓)，which is always placed first, followed by a generation name (辈) and a personal name as part of the given name (名或名字). Categories of Chinese Names Ancient Chinese names are more complicated. Most persons, especially the educated persons have many titles including xing (family name), bei (generation name) and ming (given name), zi (style 字)，shi (clan name 氏), hao (sobriquet 号), bi-ming (pen name 笔名), chuo-hao (nickname 绰号), guan-ming (official name 官名), ru- ming (milkname 乳名), etc. Categories of Chinese Names Take the famous Chinese educationist Confucius for example. Confucious’ Chinese name was (Kong Qiu 孔丘), where Kong (孔) was his family name and Qiu (丘) was his personal name. In addition，he had a Zi (字), which was Zhong-ni(仲尼). Take the great poet Li Bai(李白)for another example. His family name in Chinese is Li (李). His given name Bai (白) means white. His alias (别名) is Tai Bai (太白) and “style” Qing-lian (青莲). The surnames by origin a.Place name: Surnames from Feudal Estate, State or Living–place. For example, Wu(吴),Shen(沈)，Jiang (蒋), Han (韩)，Lv（吕）, Qi(齐) were such cases. Compound surnames such as Bai Li (百里), Dong Men (东门), Nan Guo (南郭), Zhu Ge (诸葛) indicated the location or living place of a family.For example,one of lord Lu Zhuang Gong’s (鲁庄公) sons lived near the east city wall inside the city Qufu and was called Mr.Dongguo (东郭,the east wall). His descendants took this Dongguo as their family name. There are other examples like Ximen (西门, the west gate),etc. The surnames by origin b.Totemic names: names that came from totems like Ma(horse 马), Xong (bear, 熊), Niu (ox, 牛), Long (dragon, 龙) etc, some other domestic animals and plants are also the choices for family names, suc