现在我国还有很多地方称父亲为“爷”的,如山东的费县、安徽的无为、江苏的如皋、湖北的江陵、江西的瑞昌、广东梅州的客家地区以及上海的吴中语,等等,虽然面积不大,但相当普遍,南北方都有,那“爷”字是什么时候称作父亲的呢?甲骨文、金文中没有“爷”字,东汉许慎的《说文解字》中也没有收录这个字,说明“爷”字不是我国古代的传统称谓,是一个后起之字。最早收录这个字的是南朝的萧齐,他在《玉篇》中解释说:“古俗称父为‘爺’。”由此看来,“爷”是南北朝时期的产物。不过,“爷”字一开始也不是专门称作父亲的,它是从“耶”字演变过来的。“耶”字在古书中常用作语气助词,这很常见,用作指代父亲,不是很多。东晋 Nowadays, there are many places in our country where fathers are called “gods,” such as Fei County in Anhui Province, Wuwei in Anhui Province, Jiangling in Hubei Province, Jiangling in Hubei Province, Ruichang in Jiangxi Province, Hakka in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, and Wuzhong in Shanghai. , Etc., although the area is not large, but quite common, both north and south, then the “Lord” word is called when the father? Oracle, there is no “Lord” in the text, the Eastern Han Xu Shen, “said Literary words ”also did not include this word, that “ Lord ”is not the ancient Chinese traditional title, is an afterword. The earliest collection of this word is Xiao Qi of the Southern Dynasty, he explained in the jade articles: “Ancient saying is the father of” Lord. “” From this, “Lord ” is the product of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. However, the word “god” was not specifically called the father at the very beginning, it evolved from the word “ya”. The word “ya” is often used as a modal particle in ancient books, which is not uncommon and used to refer to a father, not many. Eastern Jin Dynasty