Milk name

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The milk name ( Chinese  乳名 , Pinyin rǔmíng or 小名 , xiǎomíng or 小字 , xiǎozì ) also childhood name, child nickname is a temporary personal name that is given to the baby after birth in the family, among other places in China. This often happens because the parents have not yet chosen an official name. He will be changed as soon as the child is likely to survive.

Naming

causes

The poor living conditions of the elderly as well as a high death rate of the babies let the parents put all hope in the little ones and give them nicknames of z. B. prove animals in the hope that the children grow up healthy. Many nicknames are an expression of parental affection, which is then reflected in the nickname. Many have doubled syllables or multiple syllables as nicknames: " baobao " ( 寶寶  /  宝宝 , bǎobǎo  - "baby") ， " beibei " ( 貝貝  /  贝贝 , bèibei  - "babe"), " xiaobaobei " ( 小 寶貝  /  小宝贝 , xiǎobǎobèi  - "sweetheart") etc.

analysis

For Max Weber , the assignment of a milk name has a larger - sociological religious - context, but today it has receded into the background (similar to the confirmation). It thus belongs to the rites of rebirth (awakening and testing the charism of a person) from earlier times, which has now been replaced by specialist education (practical usefulness of the pupils and training of the same for administrative purposes and / or cultivation pedagogy).

pronunciation

Reduplication

  • Standard Chinese (Mandarin)
    1. Normal tone + unmarked tone (The duration of the tone is in the normal range.)
      In some dialects the second word is changed, for example in Cantonese the second word is changed (if in the 2nd tone 阳平 , yángpíng ) this becomes the 3rd word . Tone ( 上声 , shǎngshēng ).
    2. The name itself is pronounced normally, but the pronunciation of a word after doubling is stretched and emphasized.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ole Döring: Between moral Rubicon and legal Limes: China's bioethical self-image is taking shape (published in China currently 7/04, July 2004): 750-761, chap. 5.4.1
  • 南宋 陳思 著 ： 《小字 錄》 Nan Song Chen Si: "Small Print Catalog"

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