Why the protagonist in romance dramas, most of the surnames Lin, Su, Shen, Gu ...

Author:Look at the think tank Time:2022.06.22

In the world of romance novels, there are several mysterious families. Among these families, the family's family may be expensive and cheap, but whether men and women are men and women, they must be temperamental and talented; their lives are often ups and downs, and their lives are also bumpy.

These big families can be traced back to the twelve -sisters in the Jinling in Cao Xueqin's pen, but the predecessors who let the family rise, and also count the Shen Shijun and Gu Manzheng who float in the old Shanghai in the old Shanghai. Bai Xiuzhu, who is away from the family of Jinfan. The backbone of the development and growth, including the three sisters of the Lu family in Qiong Yao, and Gu Yuli and Lin Zhan's wings in Yishu. The newly rising family descendants are countless.

Shen Shijun and Gu Manzhen in film and television dramas. Source/Movie "Half Life" screenshot

Lin, Shen, Gu, Lu, there are people of these surnames in real life, I am afraid that they can count them with one hand. But if you ask those who use these words as the surname in romance novels, no matter the young and the young can report a long string. Some netizens have made statistics on the surname of the protagonist in romance novels. Lin, Shen, Gu, and Lu are all famous on the list, and the number is far ahead. On the contrary, Zhang, Wang, Liu, and Chen's common surnames are not particularly favored by romance novels.

Surname statistics of the characters of romance novels. Source/Douban@命

What are the romance writers who have a soft spot for these surnames? What charm does these "romance surnames" have?

Wen | Xiaoxiang Shui Leng

This article is reproduced from the WeChat public account "National Humanities History" (ID: GJRWLS). The original first published on May 31, 2022. The original title was "Why the protagonist in the romance drama, most of the surnames Lin, Su, Shen, Gu? ", Does not mean looking at the view of the think tank.

History of the development of the big surname: Who hasn't been on the ancestor?

If you investigate these surnames, you will find that aside from the identity of the "romance surname", their own family development history is wonderful enough.

In the above data, Lin's surname is the first surname of romance, and most of them are the female owners' surnames. It is difficult to say that it is related to Cao Gong. After all, as the heroine of "Dream of Red Mansions", Lin Daiyu is probably the most famous person in the Lin family. In fact, the Lin family women are indeed excellent. The sea god Mazu generally believed in the southeast coast and Southeast Asia, the original name was Lin Mo. In the legendary story, this gentle and brave woman is well -known and well -known, and often uses her knowledge to help the fleet escape from danger. She is also proficient in medicine and often helps fishermen on the beach to treat diseases. During the Yongxi reign of Song Taizong, Lin Mo died unfortunately because he encountered sea difficulties when he cured the patient. In order to commemorate her, people were sacrificed for his temples. With the development of maritime trade in the Song Dynasty, the prosperity of the Yuan Dynasty, and the "lower south ocean" of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Mazu faith was brought to all parts of the world. In 2009, the god belief of this woman surnamed Lin was included in the world's intangible cultural heritage and became the spiritual wealth of the world.

When Mazu's statue is on the plane, he will also buy a ticket with the real name of "Lin Mo". Source/Pear Video News Screenshot

In addition to Mazu, Lin Huiyin, a famous architect and writer in the Republic of China, Lin Lanying, the mother of "Chinese semiconductor materials", Lin Lanying, and Lin Qiaozi, the pioneer of Chinese obstetrics and gynecology science, was the leader of the Lin family. Although these women are their daughters, they have made their achievements in their respective fields with their own efforts. The synthesis of gentleness.

In the latest census, the population of Lin was ranked 16th, and it can be said that it is a big surname in reality. Lin's surname is a downright south of the south, especially gathered in the southeast coast. In Fujian Province, it accounts for 14.8%of the province's population. It is the largest surname in Fujian. After counting the family history of the Lin family, after forming the earliest complete family in Jinan in the Western Han Dynasty, it continued to move south due to war and official appointments. In the end, he was standing on the land of the bars. Lin's names in history are all in Fujian. For example, during the Ming Dynasty, a folding bomb -a -raised minister Yan Song's father and son, Royal Shilin Run, Lin Zexu, a national hero soldiers sold in Humen in the late Qing Dynasty, and Lin Huiyin's father, Lin Changmin. The family history of the long -term survival in the harsh environment has given Lin's family background with the courage to develop and not be afraid of difficulties. The clouds and landscapes of Fujian land were moist for Lin's. Such surnames are more likely to be favored by romance writers.

Ling Zexu, the earliest hero of the nation, the earliest "opening the eyes". Source/Modern China Imaging Database

The second place in Su, history is also very unique. Unlike the aroma of the book surnamed, Su seems to have a little redness. Most of this impression comes from the famous monster concubine. In historical records, the "ancestor of the monster concubine" was the daughter of the Su family, so the legendary legendary calling it was called "Su Shiji". Although the surnames of the ancients could not be added so simple, some people returned to the Zhou Dynasty after the death of the Su Family and became the earliest origin of Su surname. Su Shiji.

Wen Bixia version of Su Shiji. Source/TV series "Fengshen Bang" fragment

Su surnames not only beautiful women. Since the Zhou Dynasty, the celebrities of Su surname were coexisting with Chinese history. Such as the famous envoy of Su Qin, the famous and unyielding envoy of Su Qin and the Western Han Dynasty during the Warring States Period. In the Song Dynasty, the immortal pearl "Three Su" father and son in the history of Chinese literature appeared: Su Shi, Su Shi, and Su Zhe. In addition, Su Shunqin, who is almost at the same time as San Su, has such a number of poems and quality poems in the Song Dynasty who has not advocated the family. In modern times, there are Sumanshu, who is "Strange Monks of the Republic of China", revolutionaries, translators, proficient in Japanese, Sanskrit and other languages. Since ancient times, talented women have been standard in love novels, and Su names have happened to take these two items to its peak. Coupled with the surname itself, it also represents a Chinese herbal medicine called "Su Cao", which is also a common spice. The figures of Su as the surname always have a aroma of aroma and lingering in the words of the novel. Gu Gu and Shen, who ranked third and fourth, had a more glorious family history. During the Three Kingdoms period, Gu was one of the "four surnames of Jiangdong", and celebrities came out. Sun Quan's prime minister Gu Yong, Gu Rong, a famous minister in the Western Jin Dynasty, and Gu Kaizhi, a famous painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, all came from the Gu family of Jiangdong. After the silence of the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Gu's rise again in Jiangnan. Gu Xiancheng, the founder of Donglin Party, Gu Dazhang, one of the "Six Gentlemen", who was persecuted by Wei Zhongxian, and Gu Yanwu, a famous thinker in the late Ming Dynasty, was a well -known figure in Gu's in Jiangsu. In modern times, Gu Weijun, such as Gu Weigang, a diplomat in the Republic of China, Gu Jiegang, a historian, and Gu Cheng, the founder of modern hazy poetry, are all romantic.

Gu Weijun, a well -known diplomat in modern times. Source/Modern China Imaging Database

When Gu's surname was already recognized as the "Four Jiangdong Surnames", Shen Yue, the founding minister and writer of Nanliang, was still uncomfortable because of his noticable family background. But in the era of imperial examinations, Shen's stubborn accumulation, such as fish. In the Tang Dynasty, Shen Yan's period of Ding Dingqi poems, euphemistically, euphemistically; Shen Kuo of the Northern Song Dynasty wrote "Mengxi Bi Tan", becoming a generation of customs and scientific masterpieces. By the Ming Dynasty, the Shen family in the south, especially the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area, was even more talented: On the imperial examination official, there was a cabinet and auxiliary Shen (from Zhejiang Province); the art of thesis, one of the "four talents in Jiangnan", and the famous painter Shen Zhou (Jiangsu Jiangsu (Jiangsu Jiangsu (Jiangsu (Jiangsu (Jiangsu (Jiangsu (Jiangsu (Jiangsu (Jiangsu (Jiangsu Changzhou); On the gentleman's style, Mr. Qing Xia, who is not afraid of power and courage to impeach Yan Song (Zhejiang Huiji). In modern times, there are also writers Shen Congwen (born in Phoenix County, Hunan), educator Shen Yinmo (ancestor of Zhejiang Huzhou) and so on. In the history of the Shen family, it seems that people who have reversed history are rarely seen, but they are scattered in every corner of history like stars, playing their important role.

Shen Zhou portrait. Shen Zhou was the representative of the "secularization" of the Ming Dynasty art. Source/Palace Museum

Surname IP: How to become a "romance surname"

In fact, the phenomenon of this kind of "romance" reveals the uniqueness of Chinese culture behind it. In the world of text, the name is often the first impression left by the role to the reader, and countless authors have tried their best to name the characters in their own characters. For some literature everyone, the names of just two or three characters can be called the annotation of the character's life. For romance novels of weaving fantasy, the names of the male and female masters need beauty and connotation. As Douban netizens said that after the surname of the protagonist of the romance novel, for Chinese culture, the annotation of beauty is nothing more than "grass and trees, four o'clock winds." The mountains and vanilla praised in the Book of Songs and Chu Ci have always been a symbol of the aesthetic symbol in the Chinese context. Among the 40 in the top 40 of "Romance", 17 are "wood", "grass", "He" and "water" as the sideline. Thanks to the pictographic characteristics of Chinese characters, when these characters are used as surnames, they will automatically attach good scenery and Lanlan vanilla on the character. And this kind of language charm is not available in any other text in the world.

From the perspective of aesthetics, the surnames with mountains and rivers in the meaning have been on the starting line, and other surnames can only overtake from the track of connotative tracks. This part of the surname is mainly concentrated in the names of the dynasties or vassals (such as Qin, Chen, Xia, Zhou) and the emperor's surname (such as Li, Xiao, Zhao). This is also due to the long history of the history of Chinese culture. The historical development of each dynasty or vassal states will engrave their names to their unique era marks. However, for romance novels, too deep historical connotations are not necessary for characters, so although these surnames can also enter the list, they are basically not high.

In some romance works that focus on the heritage, these surnames still have advantages. The picture shows Xiao Dingquan, the male lead of "Heye Hua Ting". Source/TV series "Crane Hua Huating" stills

At the same time, after considering two aspects of beauty and connotation, many surnames have come out. The choice of the rest of the surname depends on the author's own preferences. Interestingly, in the top names, from the surname of Lin, the surname of the four surnames of Jiangdong in history, from the "first surname of romance" gathered in the southeast coast, and the surname of Lu in the history None of the surnames are concentrated in the "southern surnames" distributed in Jiangnan and Fujian and Guangzhou. Although Su surnames is concentrated in Henan Province, it is more concentrated in Jiangnan. Except for the national surname Li and Chen, only Bai's surnames mainly live in the north in the first ten middle schools. But Bai's surname is undoubtedly better than beauty, and there will be no other surnames more suitable for pure and indifferent characters than it.

In this point, the sharp -eyed netizen "Lu Tu Gen" discovered the mystery: the "southern surname" in the romance novel is related to the development of romance novels. The rise of novels in the Ming and Qing dynasties was mainly created and disseminated in the Jiangnan region with a more developed economy. These authors of Jiangnan are naturally more accustomed to choosing surnames often appearing around them as characters. During the Republic of China, the "Puppet Butterfly School" born in Shanghai was born, pushing the creation of romance novels to a climax. The authors in this client are almost born or lived in the Jiangnan region. The stories in the pen are also concentrated in Jiangnan cities. A small number of stories are based on Beijing. In modern times, romance also came from Jiangnan. We are familiar with Qiong Yao, born in Hunan, were born in Sichuan. Later, we moved to Shanghai with our family and moved to Taiwan. The trajectory of life is not south of the Yangtze River. It can be said that the landscapes in Jiangnan have bred romance factors in Chinese literature.

Under the outline of a generation of spokesperson writers, these constant surnames of romance have their own "romance temperament". Entering the Internet era, the rise of online literature has increased the number of romance novels, and fierce competition has even more highlighted the importance of quickly establishing a role impression. When some surnames have their own first impression, they will undoubtedly make characters with these surnames and the same temperament later are more likely to be remembered by readers, and it is more convenient for the author's characters. In this way, there will be more and more authors who use these surnames. In this way, the frequency of some surnames in romance novels is getting higher and higher, and its impression of solidification is getting deeper and deeper. Originally ordinary surnames completed their own "IP" virtually.

Of course, this will bring some hidden concerns. For example, the discussion of the "romance surname" today, in fact, contains the romance authors that are more and more rigid. Some Weibo netizens have summarized the rules: as long as you choose a "romance surname" casually, with the words taken from the poem, you can spelled into a very good name of the romance. Under the name of such an assembly line, plus the homogeneity of people, fewer and fewer characters can be impressed. Like Cao Xueqin in "Dream of Red Mansions", hundreds of characters' names are hidden in mysterious machines and characters with their own attractive works, and it is difficult to reproduce.

Can you call them their names in "The Twelve Sisters of Jinling" in "Dream of Red Mansions"? Source/TV series 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" screenshot

Who doesn't want the characters in their writing to have a beautiful and poetic name? For my "naming abandonment", choosing "a big name" may be just an emergency plan that does not allow your brain hole to die during the birth period.