Many friends may find that the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty is different from today, and there are definitely more single names than double names. This was the habit of people at that time, especially scholars, and it is generally believed that it came from Wang Mang's retro decree, so that scholars and doctors all used single names, and double names were cheap. According to historical records, Wang Mang had a grandson as Wang Huizong, which was changed to Wang Zong according to the new law, and was forced to commit suicide because he coveted the throne.

In fact, although this is an important reason, but not the main reason, the restoration of the Eastern Han Dynasty, almost adhering to the "two whatever" policy, everything Wang Mang advocates, we have to oppose, where Wang Mang opposes, we have to support, but although the new law of canceling the single name, it has not been able to reverse the trend of taking a single name. In fact, the main reason why single names are widely used is because as Confucianism has increasingly become the ruling ideology, the system of avoiding obscenity has become more and more strict. It is conceivable that when the vast majority of personal names are single names, the scope of avoidance will be doubled to facilitate the use of words in daily life.

Therefore, this single name habit was produced from the middle and late Western Han Dynasty, and Wang Mang Tuogu reformed the system, but it was only determined as a law. Although the Xinmang regime collapsed, this habit was not reversed, which led to the dominance of single names in the Eastern Han Dynasty, including the Wei and Jin dynasties.

In the Three Kingdoms era of the Later Han Dynasty, the vast majority of those who left their names in history were single names, which do not need to be enumerated one by one. So, how can we explain that its double name can occasionally be seen, which destroys this habit? In fact, there are the following special circumstances for the generation of double names:

The most common is that there is no one in history, romance fiction, for example: Wu Anguo, Pei Yuanshao, Xing Daorong, and so on.

The second is to use words. The ancients had names and characters, and theoretically the characters were also used to be single, but it was possible to add rankings in front, such as Bo Zhong Shuji, and add the words "Zi" and "Gong" to represent respect, or add the word "father" ("Fu") for men. For example, the word Zhongni of Kongqiu, Zhong is ranked, and later generations are still used to call him "nun father". In the Three Kingdoms era of the Later Han Dynasty, the characters have been the norm with double characters, but Zhou Yu's character Gongjin, Lu Su's character Zijing, etc., still retain the ancient heritage.

There are many people who have lost their names and only survived, or at that time, due to various circumstances, people used to call his words, that is, by words. For example, Zhuge Liang bowed to Longzhong, and his friends included Cui Zhouping, Shi Guangyuan, Xu Yuanzhi, and Meng Gongwei, in fact, Cui Zhouping is Cui Jun, Shi Guangyuan is Shi Tao, Xu Yuanzhi is Xu Shu, and Meng Gongwei is Meng Jian, all of which are just remembered by him. These can be found, and some are undetectable or vague, such as Zhuge Liang's father-in-law Huang Chengyan, Lu Bohao, who was mistakenly killed by Cao Cao, Lu Suyou, Liu Ziyang, Yuan Shao, Lu Weihuang, Wei Yuanjin, etc., whose names are not transmitted. Yuan Shaoyou will Han Juzi, or Han Xun or Han Meng, Jiang Yiqu, or Jiang Qi - whether it is or not, it is estimated that no one can prove it.

The third situation is the secretary's error, for example, Fu Shiren, the Shu general who descended to Lu Meng with Elfang, whose real name is Shiren, is misremembered. The Youzhou stabbing history Wuhuan touch of Cao's descending Cao is actually a scorched touch, and it is also a misremembered romance. There is a prince's costume in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", and the "Book of the Later Han" is recorded as a prince's suit. There is also Pang Tong's uncle Pang Degong, who may be in the line of words, or it may be "derived" from the public character.

The fourth situation is for foreign races, such as Shamoke, and then Hu Che'er and Hu Chi'er, with the word "Hu" in front of their names, which is not a surname, but represents their Hu origin. In the romance, there is also a Qiang leader Oh He Yao Ge, who is both a foreign race and a misremember, and there are actually two people in the official history, namely Hungry He and Yao Ge.

The fifth case is nicknames, there are many such people in the yellow scarf, such as Zhang Niujiao, Li Damu, Guo Daxian, Chu Feiyan (later renamed Zhang Yan), etc. Cao Shuang has a cronie as Yin Damu, and it is estimated that it is the same, those with big eyes have big eyes. Yan Baihu, the king of Eastern Wude, is not very easy to say, maybe because of his low background, he has a double name, or it is possible that "White Tiger" is a nickname.

The sixth case is a single surname, which may be misunderstood by future generations. For example, Wei Chen Gao Tang Long, Fu surname Gao Tang, Biqiu Jian, Fu surname Biqiu, as for Chun Yu, Sima, Zhuge , there are many people with the same surname, which generally does not cause misunderstanding.

After careful study, there are probably the following people who really have double names in the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty.

First of all, Ma Yuanyi and Zhang Mancheng, both of whom are handsome in the Yellow Turban, that is to say, they are from very low backgrounds and are not scholars, so in the era when single names are noble and double names are cheap, they have left their double names.

The second is the Han Taiwei Ma Riyan (pronounced as Mi Low), the character Uncle Weng, and the nephew of the great Confucian Ma Rong, so it is definitely neither a word nor a foreigner. His situation is more special, because in the era of Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty, there was a minister named Jin Riyan, the crown prince of the Xiongnu Hutu, and Emperor Wu gave him the surname Jin.

The third is Guo Yuzhi, the servant mentioned in Zhuge Liang's "Teacher Table". We will find that many double names end with the word "zhi" during the Wei, Jin and Southern Dynasties, such as Pei Songzhi, Wang Xizhi, Zu Chongzhi, Liu Gaozhi, etc., especially Wang Xizhi's seven sons are Wang Xuanzhi, Wang Ningzhi, Wang Caozhi, Wang Xianzhi, etc., and his grandchildren have Wang Zhenzhi and Wang Jingzhi, and his great-grandsons have Wang Yizhi and Wang Yuezhi. Mr. Chen Yinke believes that this is related to the Tao of the Heavenly Master, and it is a special habit of believers, or a special expression.

Therefore, in my novel "Han Wei Wenkui", there are often many people who are recorded as double names in history books, whether they are written by word or mistake, or there are other special circumstances, no one knows the guy, so I will always determine it as a word line. For example, Xi Zhicai, or said that he was born in the Shu clan, so the habit of double names, but the habit of a single name is not only popular in the family, as long as it is a scholar, regardless of the family or the poor family, as mentioned earlier, unless there are very special circumstances, it will not destroy this habit. So I set his surname to be a play name, a virtuous character and a talent. For example, in "Spring and Autumn in Kyushu", it is said that Kong Rong only trusts the "fierce and talented little talents" Prince Fa and Liu Kongci, but alienates the virtuous Zuo Chengzu and Liu Yixun, so I set the name of the prince Fa, Liu Kongci's name is detailed, Liu Yixun's name is famous, and Zuo Chengzu's name is respected.

There is also Li Jin, a local tyrant who once repelled Lu Bu in the Cheng clan, "Heroes" is recorded as Li Jinxian, and his brother is Li Shujie, so I set the name of Li Shujie and Li Jinxian. There may be Cao Anmin in the future, some people say that it should be Cao An and Cao Min, which is a double name caused by a sentence break, and I will simply use him as a word.

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