A Cultural Analysis of the Scholars'Changing Words In the Song Dynasty

Chinese ancients have names and words. Words have more social cultural connotation than names. Words indicate scholars'future and their identities in the opinion of scholars in Song Dynasty. In this background, scholars in Song Dynasty often changed their words. The reasons include taboos, superstitions, appreciations of beauty, encouragement of studying or moral advisement. It indicates the values trend of scholars in the background of social mobility becoming more and more obvious.