先秦时代人们的取名,其实与后世很不一样。具体来说,当时的人名不避贱称,类似后世的小名、俗名;而取字上才专以美名、嘉名,类似后世的大名。在上古时期,人们往往在婴儿出生时,就根据其出生的境况和样貌给取名,所谓“子生三月则父名之”(《仪礼》),这时取名用词较为俚俗、朴实,直到春秋时期依然如此,例如:周始祖后稷是弃儿,于是名弃。晋文侯出生时,其父晋穆侯 Pre-Qin era people’s name, in fact, very different from future generations. Specifically, at that time, the name of a person does not avoid humble origin and resembles later generations of nicknames and colloquial names; In ancient times, people usually gave birth to the baby at birth, according to the situation and appearance of the birth, the so-called “Son of the Father in March” (“Ceremony”), then named More vulgar, simple, until the Spring and Autumn Period is still the case, for example: Zhou Ji ancestor is abandoned, so named abandoned. Jin Wen Hou was born, his father Jin Mu Hou