刊物属性
  • 刊物名称:校园英语
  • 国内刊号:CN 13-1298/G4
  • 国际刊号:ISSN 1009-6426
  • 邮发代号: 18-116
  • 数据库收录:中国知网
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  • 作者:校园英语杂志社 字数:2940 点击:

    作者:Yang Xiaoyan
      【Abstracts】Starting from Guiqiong people’s names, the thesis makes a brief introduction of Guiqiong people’s names, analyzes the hidden culture within Guiqiong people’s names from the perspectives of linguistics and folklore in details.
      【Keywords】Guiqiong; people’s names; cultural connotation; social functions
      【作者簡介】 Yang Xiaoyan,Faculty of Arts, Sichuan Minzu College。
      ‘There are specialized terms used to reflect the cultural content of a particular society in the vocabulary of any nation.’ And people’s names are a sort of special terms that are utilized the most widely with the highest frequency of use.
      I. Guiqiong people’s names
      The full name of a Guiqiong person’s name should contain a structure of ‘a house name plus human name’, and the house name of a Guiqiong person is equal to the surname of a Han nationality person. Guiqiong’s human name goes after the house name, the frequency to address and say it in oral communication is rather high, generally; it’s performed mainly with the structure of ‘five elements/Bodhisattva name / Chinese Zodiac plus name plus auspicious words.
      Ⅱ. Cultural connotation within people’s names
      1. Religious influence is as plain as the nose on one’s face
      (1)Centralization of naming rights——local Kumbar. Based on the birthdate of a delivery woman or child, the Kumbar relies on the Eight Diagrams to measure and deduce, concludes the direction,, and then names it. The naming right that the Kumbar possesses ia partly determined by the religious position within the ethnic group. On the other hand, the method to calculate and deduce a name is inherited by the Kumbar from generation to generation, which only the Kumbar and Anqu can learn.
      (2)Religion within the naming method--- Taoism and Buddhism
      1)Tibetan Buddhism. First of all, the local Guiqiong Kumbar learns religion from local lamas, who go to Tibetan area to the west of Zhedo Mountain in Kangding City for expertise learning. Secondly, Guiqiong people believe in that there is a Bodhisattva watching and guarding every hill, hence the name of a Bodhisattva in each direction enters the scope of naming a person.Thirdly, being named after Buddhist utensils.
      2)Taoism of the Han nationality. It is necessary to be calculated and deduced by the Kumbar to name a person in Guiqiong, and the calculation and deduction method is based on the the Eight Diagrams principle of the Han nationality. After learning about the birthdate and the eight characters of a horoscope of a delivery woman or child, it can be specifically learned which direction and which one of the five elements or Bodhisattva it corresponds to through the Eight Diagrams calculation and deduction.