Chapter 42 Section 2 Basis of pseudonym

What is the basis for the pseudonym?That is to say, how to come up with a pseudonym?After we analyzed the pen names of some writers, we found that there are several common ways as follows. This method of taking a pseudonym is the most.For example, the poet Tianjian, formerly known as Tong Tianjian, lived in the countryside when he was young and had deep feelings for the countryside and farmers, so he changed Tianjian to Tianjian in a homophonic way.Another example is the poet Wen Jie, whose original name was Zhao Wenjie. With the method of homonym, Wen Jie became Wen Jie.Chen Huangmei, formerly known as Chen Guangmei, also uses the homonym method, the consonants of Guang and Huang are the same, and the urgent pronunciation is similar.Writer Wu Qiang, once used the pen name Wu Qiang.Writer and scholar Professor Wu Zuxiang, formerly known as Wu Zuxiang, used the same method to get his pen name.

In addition, there are homonyms first and then meanings, such as Qu Qiubai, formerly known as A Shuang, later renamed Shuang, also known as Shuang, and finally Qiubai.Shuang and Shuang have similar sounds; Shuang and Shuang have similar sounds, and their meanings are adjacent; Autumn dew is frost, and its color is white, changing from frost to autumn white. This is how the pen names of two great writers came about.One is Lao She. His original name was Shu Qingchun.Adding a prefix to "She" became Lao She.The other is the playwright Cao Yu, whose original name was Wan Jiabao.The traditional Chinese character for Wan is "万", which is composed of "艹" and "禹". The ancient form of "艹" is "艸", which is the ancient character for "grass".Because the homonym of grass is "Cao", it became the surname of Shang, and "Cao Yu" became a typical name.

The writer Nie Gan (gangan) crossbow once used Erye as his pen name, and also changed his surname as his pen name.Ye is composed of ears and yin.It is commonly known as "阝" for two ears, and the combination of ears and "阝" becomes "Nie". The above is to split the surname into a pseudonym. There are also those who add characters to their surnames as pen names.For example, the poet Gong Liu, whose original name was Liu Gengzhi.Because "Poetry Daya" has an article "Gong Liu", and Gong Liu is an ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty.Therefore, because of the addition of the word "Gong" to "Liu", the ancient name was changed to a pseudonym.

In addition, after the surname is changed to other homophones, a word is added with the meaning of the homophone to form a pen name with complete meaning.Such as the writer Liu Qing, his original name was Liu Yunhua.Change "Liu" into the homonym "Liu", and because "Liu" is affixed with the word "Qing", it becomes "Willow Green" or "Willow Green". Playwright and film artist Xia Yan, formerly known as Shen Naixi, courtesy name Duanxuan.When he was engaged in translation work, he used the pen name Shen Duanxian, and when he published the script "Sai Jinhua", he changed his pen name to Xia Yan.This is formed by separating the "first" from "end first". The initial consonant of "Xian" becomes "Xia", and the final consonant becomes "Yan"; when Xia and Yan are spelled together, they become "Xian".

This method is only available in modern times.Famous scholars use this method to name and select characters, such as Professor Wang Li, a famous linguist and educator. The initial consonant of "Li" becomes "Le", and the final consonant becomes "One"; when Le and Yi are combined, they become "Li".The philologist Tang Lan set up a factory [an'an]. The initial consonant of "Lan" becomes "Li", and the final consonant becomes "Chang"; when Li and Chang are combined, they return to "Lan". Zhou Yang, a literary theorist, was originally named Zhou Qiying.Yang and Uprising are similar, and they are used together as words, so "Yang" corresponds to "Qi" and becomes "Zhou Yang".Translator Geng Jizhi, formerly known as Geng Kuang, courtesy name Meng Yong.Both Ji and Kuang have the meaning of "rescue", so they can form words such as Kuangji, Kuangjiu, and relief, so because "ji" is affixed with the pronoun "zhi", it becomes "jizhi", which means "rescue him" or "relieve others". ", seems to have become the name Kuang, the word Jizhi.The famous female writer Xie Bingxin, formerly known as Xie Wanying.Ying, jade color, jade smooth, moist look.Both ice and jade are white crystals, so ice and jade are often used together in ancient Chinese, and the idiom has "Yujie Bingqing".Wang Changling of the Tang Dynasty wrote "Bingxin" as a pen name because of the famous line "A piece of ice heart is in the jade pot" because of "Ying", and used it as a metaphor for his own nobility.The relationship between pen name and original name is like character and name.

This is mostly a temporary pseudonym.The original pseudonyms of the essays Lu Xun received were all ad hoc.Because he was so famous, the Kuomintang was afraid that he would publish articles to ridicule current affairs, and took every possible precaution to prevent him from publishing his articles.He "used various pseudonyms to block the eyes of the editor and the inspector" ("Zhun Fengyue Tan·Postscript"), and successively published more than 60 essays in "Free Talk".Some of the pseudonyms are often based on the content and nature of the article.For example, the article "Double Ten Nostalgia" is signed as "History".Those who refute a certain argument will sign the name "Jing Yi Zun", which means, return a glass of wine to the other party, and so on.To this day, such pseudonyms are often used in newspapers.