Fun fact: even 'she' is a new pronoun in Mandarin. It used to not even exist. All people were 'he'. In fact, a lot of baby girls didn't even get names. They were just called 'sister #5' or something, and then they got married off at 15 and never saw their parents or brothers again.
tbf that was common in a lot of countries. in rome septimius just means 'the seventh one', lot of people were named that, there were also female ones like nona, secunda, octavia, etc.
germanic and slavic countries would often name kids by the day they were born on, which was typically named after a god. so a person born on Thursday would be named Thor or Thora and so on
generally it was a good practice to not get too attached to your kids back then, way too likely that theyd die
one of the classics of Chinese literature, Water Margin, opens on a character called Gao the Second because he's the second son of the Gao family (but people gave him the nickname "Gao Qiu" or Gao "the Ball" instead)
I always am a little sussed by anything that could give even an inch to xenophobia, thanks for proving that once again the Chinese are like everyone else
yes, but there are many similarities, people like to only highlight certain negative aspects of other cultural groups to otherize them, and a lot of times those negative aspects are over exaggerated or outright false.
Fun fact: even 'she' is a new pronoun in Mandarin. It used to not even exist. All people were 'he'. In fact, a lot of baby girls didn't even get names. They were just called 'sister #5' or something, and then they got married off at 15 and never saw their parents or brothers again.
tbf that was common in a lot of countries. in rome septimius just means 'the seventh one', lot of people were named that, there were also female ones like nona, secunda, octavia, etc.
germanic and slavic countries would often name kids by the day they were born on, which was typically named after a god. so a person born on Thursday would be named Thor or Thora and so on
generally it was a good practice to not get too attached to your kids back then, way too likely that theyd die
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if you could provide what those names are id be interested in knowing, i kinda doubt that it would be only for girls
one of the classics of Chinese literature, Water Margin, opens on a character called Gao the Second because he's the second son of the Gao family (but people gave him the nickname "Gao Qiu" or Gao "the Ball" instead)
I always am a little sussed by anything that could give even an inch to xenophobia, thanks for proving that once again the Chinese are like everyone else
I mean Chinese society was shitty in similar ways every other society was shitty until 1949
yes, but there are many similarities, people like to only highlight certain negative aspects of other cultural groups to otherize them, and a lot of times those negative aspects are over exaggerated or outright false.
So those culty chuds with the funny dance theater gimmicks miss those days?
That numbering thing is not exclusively for girls
But a fucked up common name for girls was 招娣 Which literally means "seeking younger brother"
The implication is that they're hoping their next child was a boy
in chyna, there is only one gender smh