In ancient China, the emperor was supreme, there were many taboos, as a common man would be beheaded if he was not careful, but he was not as free as today.
The emperor's name is a big taboo, for example, if there is a word in your name that is the same as the emperor's name, you must change your name, which is called shunning.
But what do you sometimes do when you come across the emperor's name while writing an essay or a memo? Then it is necessary to write one less stroke, usually the last one, so that it represents respect for the emperor.
But often a word is written like this with less than one stroke becomes another meaning, you must know that Chinese characters are pictographs, and they are particular when making characters, so name learning is so important today.
Let's take several emperors in the later Qing Dynasty as an example, Emperor Xianfeng, his name is Aixin Jueluo Yisu.
The word is written less than that is the T-word without that hook, and the T-word without this hook is not a Ding, and you say that this is a single ding.
Sure enough, Emperor Xianfeng's two sons, one only lived to be 19 years old, and the other died just after birth.
Or it can be understood in this way, if the Ning character on the right side of the word is missing, it will not be Ning, which means that it is not very peaceful.
In fact, the country was in turmoil during the Xianfeng period, and he himself only lived 31 years old.
There are many interpretations of the word 詝, the left and right are separated into Yan Ning, his tranquility is just said with his mouth, not realistic, plus the word Ning is missing, it is even more needless to say.
Emperor Xianfeng's son who lived to the age of 19 was Tongzhi, whose name was Aixin Jueluo Zaichun, and the word Chun was even worse if there was less stroke, because the last one of the words was the sub-word, and the last horizontal word was missing, and it became a word.
The T-word is one less tick, but it's still a D, and the sub-word is one less horizontal, and the word has changed, and it's completely gone. So Emperor Tongzhi had no son, and later found his nephew to be the emperor, that is, Emperor Guangxu.
Emperor Guangxu's name is Aixin Jueluo Zaiyan, the word is less than one stroke, and he does not write the horizontal under the right tongue, and the tongue is not a tongue, so he has no right to speak all his life, and the power is in the hands of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
At the same time, the tongue split is a thousand mouths, there are a thousand mouths, there are a lot of things to say, there are many things to do, but because of the lack of this pen, they can't say it, and they can't do it.
The mouth has the meaning of people and population, and the mouth is not a mouth, so Guangxu also has no son.
Behind Guangxu is the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Aixin Jueluo Puyi, the last one of the words is my word, I have one less word, I am not me, so he has always been a puppet, or impotence. Later, he was imprisoned, and the Qing Dynasty finished playing with him.
So as a modern person, should you be taboo in the use of words? I still want it, but it's not the same as in ancient times, and we don't have to avoid the emperor's name now.
However, we still need to avoid taboos for some direct elders, such as grandparents, parents, etc., to show respect for the elders. We still have to be careful about some particularly large and partial words.
For example, the heaven, earth, the sun and the moon are particularly large characters, and for example, spring, summer, autumn and winter, southeast, northwest and other side words, they are all very particular about the combination. It can be used when the combination is reasonable, and if the combination is not good, it will have a bad impact on life.
Author Wen Chaoliang, please do not ** without permission, thank you!