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Names refer to the names of people, products and articles. There are broad and narrow names, as well as nicknames, aliases, posthumous title and birth names. Broad names include the surname and first name of citizens and the names of legal persons and unincorporated organizations; In a narrow sense, the name only refers to the first and last names of citizens. It is a combination of names and words. In ancient China, names and characters were used separately.

A person's title. The ancients not only had "names" but also "characters". The baby was named by the father three months after birth. The ancient Han Chinese man was twenty years old, held a rite of passage and took the word "Zi". At the age of fifteen, the woman promised to marry, holding a gift and taking the word "zi".

Name of things: the name of the school, one or several words, combined with the surname, to represent a person, in order to distinguish it from others and know a person. One or more words used to indicate one thing, different from another. For example: rice, rice, the name of this village is Zhanggezhuang and so on.

In history books or ancient books, we can often see that the ancients had characters besides names. The ancients had "name" and "name", also called "real name". The old saying is that ancient babies were taken by their fathers three months after birth (of course, there are also sayings that they can be named after birth);

The word "Zi", also called "Biao Zi", is a name associated with a real name. Men take the characters when they are crowned at the age of 20 (however, in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, their thoughts are rebellious, and both Cao Chong and Sun Liang may not follow them before they die), while women 15 take the characters when they are crowned.

Names existed before the Xia Dynasty, and word selection is said to have started from the Shang Dynasty. For example, the overthrown Shang Tang, formerly known as Lu, was also known as Tianyi and the word Tang. Also, there is a difference between a name and a character. The ancients often claimed their own names to show humility, called people's words to show respect, and the combination of surnames and words was also a kind of respect.

Names and words are related, related. Some meanings are related, some are complementary, and some are opposite. In addition, the names and characters of the ancients are often taken from classic ancient books.