Chinese culture is vast and profound, and the small square characters have many variations. Because of different pronunciations, different suffixes, and even different tone, the meanings will be very different.
Even the surname that everyone knows well has many wonderful allusions and legends.
As we all know, Zhao Qian, Sun Li are the four major surnames, but in ancient times, people's surnames were named after place names.
For example, in the Zhou Dynasty , the princes and nobles were proud to give the surname Ji, because it is said that the ancestor emperor of the Chinese people was born on the bank of the Ji River, so the emperor's surname was Ji, and the emperor's descendants King Wen of Zhou Ming Ji Chang , King Wu of Zhou is called Jifa . Favored important ministers would be given the surname Ji. Having the same surname as the emperor would bring glory to the ancestors in ancient times.
Nowadays, there are relatively few people with the surname Ji. If there is such a surname, everyone will be helpless.
For example, when someone calls you Xiao Ji or Lao Ji at work, it is so awkward that it really makes you want to hide your name every minute.
In northern my country, there are still many people with the surname Nan. This surname originated from the ancient northern nomadic tribe Xianbei , and was first brought to the Central Plains by the Tunan clan of the Xianbei ethnic group. Later, due to continuous intermarriage with Han , it became increasingly inconvenient to have compound surnames, so people gradually removed the first character and shortened it to a difficult surname. The word
is also a very embarrassing surname. Not to mention the pronunciation, even picking a name is difficult. If you add a difficult word to the meaning of the name, the meaning will be completely different.
Everyone knows that there was a famous tycoon in the Three Kingdoms named Cao Cao . In fact, the character Cao alone can also be a surname. I don’t know what the meaning of this surname was in ancient times, but no matter how you put it together now, it is also a curse word. It is thinking of a child who has the surname Cao since he was a child and was nicknamed by his peers. The probability of making a joke is almost 100%.
Therefore, many descendants of Cao Xing later quietly changed their surname to Cao. The similar pronunciation at least makes it less embarrassing. These last names are really embarrassing. But since it was passed down from ancestors, as long as you are more open-minded, Ren Ren will get used to it.
But next to this word, I can’t even say it out loud. Especially when it comes to women, I really can’t stand it for a day. This word is testis. The original character for testis is Gao, which is a knowing word. In ancient times, testis It is the name of a kind of sacrificial activity facing the water and the mountain.
But it is completely irrelevant to the current meaning. The transformation of ancient characters into modern vernacular has evolved into the sadness of "Eggs", which is really embarrassing.
