Chapter 75: First and Foremost (Part II)
"'Name', everything in the world has a name, stone, wood, grass, flowers, water, fire, are all 'name', you, me, and him all have a 'name', my name is 'Yan', your name is 'Wu', I shout 'Wu', and if you respond, it means that your name is 'Wu'."
Hearing Su Yan's "name", both the snake witch and the tiger witch nodded, indicating that they had understood a little.
Su Yan: "As for the 'surname', you and his name are both 'Wu', but the two of you do not belong to the same tribe, your tribe believes in the snake incarnation of the dragon god, so your tribe is called the Snake Tribe, the snake is your 'surname', and your name is called the Snake Witch; ”
The snake witch and the tiger witch nodded again to show their understanding, their understanding may be slightly different, in the snake witch's mind, the understanding of the "snake witch" is "he is the witch of the snake tribe", the tiger witch's understanding is similar to the snake witch, this understanding is not wrong.
Su Yan looked at Derpy and Tiger Witch's disciples, Tiger Witch's disciples were older than Derpy, they were already adults, and their daily habits were basically imitating his teacher, Tiger Witch.
Su Yan: "You two can come up with a name for yourself. ”
Hearing Su Yan's words, Derpy and the disciples of Tiger Witch were a little dazed, they had just learned about the "name", and it was obviously very difficult for them to name themselves now.
Su Yan shook her head helplessly, so she could only come in person.
After thinking about it for a while, Su Yan said, "Your name is 'Mu', and your name is 'Xin'. ”
"Wood" is Derpy's name, and Daze has a certain relationship with wood, as for the name of the Tiger Witch's disciple, it was just Su Yan's casual thought.
After speaking, Su Yan took the sharp stone and carved the words on the two blank signs, and engraved the four words in just two minutes, Su Yan handed the signs to Mu and Xin respectively, and Mu and Xin respectfully took the sign from Su Yan's hand.
After staying in the snake witch's house for a while, Su Yan gave the four of them the writing of the words "surname" and "first name" before leaving.
When he returned to the house where he lived, Su Yan found that Sister Xiaohua Xiaoyue had returned, and after practicing "Su's Boxing Method" in the afternoon, Su Yan let Sister Xiaohua Xiaoyue go to play, and only now came back.
Sister Xiaohua is about to become an adult, in the snake tribe, the children who are about to become adults have to work to help adults share part of the work, which is half or one-third of the labor force, but Xiaohua includes Xiaoyue and her adoptive mother, because of Su Yan's relationship, the status of the three of them in the snake tribe has also improved, at least they are no longer ordinary clansmen.
If other children who are about to become adults don't work all day, there will definitely be adults who will reprimand them, replaced by Xiaohua, ordinary clansmen don't dare to reprimand her at all, and Zhi and Wu won't care about these things, Xiaohua wants to play or want to work and let Xiaohua decide for herself.
"Come here." Su Yan beckoned to Sister Xiaohua Xiaoyue, and Sister Xiaohua Xiaoyue obediently walked in front of Su Yan.
Su Yan took the two plates engraved before to Sister Xiaohua and Xiaoyue.
"Brother, what is this?" Xiaohua asked Su Yan suspiciously.
"Your 'surname' and 'first name......' are engraved on it," Su Yan repeated what he had said to the snake witch and tiger witch before to Sister Xiaohua and Xiaoyue.
Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters have only been learning dragon characters for a few months, and they have not learned all the dragon characters commonly used in life, and they have not fully understood Su Yan's words, and they roughly know that their surname is "snake" and their name is plum blossom (Eyue).
Mei, E, and the four words of surname and first name Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters have not been learned, Su Yan spent some time handing over these four words to Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters, after the previous adjustment. Teach, now that Su Yan teaches the two of them, they will study seriously.
In the evening, Su Yan gave the brands of Ci, Zhi, and Biao to the three of them.
Ci just can speak some dragon language, but doesn't know dragon characters, Su Yan wants to explain the "name" to his adoptive mother is a difficult thing, so Su Yan didn't bother to explain to his adoptive mother, just let him understand that "Ci" represents herself, and when someone calls her "Ci" in the future, she will respond.
When it came to Zhi and Biao, Su Yan took the sign to Zhi and Biao, Zhi was smarter and understood the meaning of "name" a little, Biao was difficult to understand for a while, but then Zhi and Biao called each other by name, and Biao probably understood the meaning of "name".
Zhi: "You're Biao." ”
Biao: "You are Zhi. ”
Zhi: "Zhi and Biao are good brothers. ”
Biao: "Biao and Zhi are good brothers. ”
Zhi feels that this "name" is very interesting, usually calling other people are "you, me, him" like this, you can't designate someone, you have to communicate face-to-face if you want to talk to someone, if you have a name, just call the other person's name and let the other party know.
There are three hundred people in the entire snake and tiger tribal alliance, and now only ten people have "ID cards", and if you want three hundred people to have their own ID cards, even if the brand is polished by other clansmen, the name alone makes Su Yan very irritable.
However, the matter of naming can only be done by Su Yan himself, those who have learned the dragon character can understand the meaning of the name, but it is more difficult to name other people, and they also need to learn to think about Su Yan's way of naming it.
Learning and thinking are the two steps of human progress.
In the time that followed, Su Yan continued to carve plaques for other clansmen.
First of all, people who have learned and are learning dragon characters, Su Yan needs to explain the meaning of "name" to them, they have a certain amount of knowledge accumulation, it will not take much time to understand the meaning of "name", in addition to this, they also need to know and write their own "name", but this is not a difficult thing.
Finally, there are the ordinary people who do not know the dragon character in the vast majority of the snake and tiger tribal alliance.
These people didn't know the dragon character, and Su Yan didn't plan to explain the meaning of "name" to them, but simply told them that the "surname" represented their tribe and the "name" represented themselves, and this method of explanation made them quickly understand the meaning of "name".
The people of the Snake tribe are better, they are used to using dragon language for conversation, while the people of the Tiger tribe are learning.
Fortunately, Su Yan doesn't need them to write their "names", they just need to be able to read the pronunciation of their "names", this is to let them and others know their names, if they don't know the "pronunciation" of their names, they can't let others know their "names".
With the people of the Snake and Tiger Tribal Alliance having their own names, some things in life have become more convenient, and everyone no longer needs to talk face-to-face, just call each other's names from a distance.