In ancient times, women had low status, and some only had surnames without titles. Therefore, queens in the royal family generally have surnames, such as Li Fei, instead of using their first names as mentioned in TV dramas. Generally, a woman with a name can't call her by her first name, so it's impossible to say, for example, a princess's name is Xue, so it can't be Qian Fei or.
The "tongfei", "Ying Fei" and "Shu Fei" we see are actually not their names, but titles given by the emperor, such as "Rou" and "Wan", which are great honors, and titles cannot conflict with names.
In ancient times, there were two kinds of titles for empresses: one was decided by the emperor, such as the titles of empresses and concubines in the Qing Dynasty, and the titles of queens and concubines. Usually, their titles consist of two or more words; In another case, the names inherent in the hierarchy of concubines also belong to "titles". Like the four concubines in the early Tang Dynasty: Imperial concubine, Shu princess, De princess and Xian princess, the titles (also called titles) of these four inherent concubines were Gui, Shu, De princess and Xian princess respectively. Obviously, the title of the first case is much more noble than the second. In the second case, if the concubines who have already enjoyed the title have any merits, the emperor can give them a royal seal, so that they can have two titles at the same time. It is a great honor for ancient women to have two titles at the same time.
After the women who entered the palace were made imperial concubines, in order to distinguish each other, they were crowned with a beautiful word in front of their ranks, which could be called from the empress dowager to the eunuch. The concubines in the Qing court are divided into imperial concubine, imperial concubine, concubine, concubines and nobles, constancy and infinity. Women's titles should be preceded by a plus sign for reasons of recognition or distinction. These numbers are generally beautiful and have feminine characteristics, such as Jane, Jane, Jin and Shu, so they look like women's names.