NAME

Lingua::ZH::ChineseNaming - Analyzing Chinese Names

SYNOPSIS

  use Lingua::ZH::ChineseNaming;
  my $n = new Lingua::ZH::ChineseNaming( # Chen Yuan-yuan
                                      FAMILY_NAME => '³¯',
                                      GIVEN_NAME => '¶ê¶ê'
                                      );

  print Dumper $n;

DESCRIPTION

 Naming is an art and choosing an auspicious one is a
 long-standing tradition in Chinese communities. Many
 people hold firmly that to have a good name is to have
 an auspicious life.

 Analyzing and choosing a good name always uses several
 patterns, e.g. stroke-counting, Chinese-horoscope, 
 hexagrams, but there is never a scientific foundation
 for these patterns.

 Lingua::ZH::ChineseNaming avoids to be a fortune-teller,
 but only extracts the computable part of this tradition
 and tries not to be confined to any specific school of
 interpreters.

METHODS

• new Lingua::ZH::ChineseNaming(FAMILY_NAME => HERE, GIVEN_NAME => HERE) starts analysis

      my $n = new Lingua::ZH::ChineseNaming( # Chen Yuan-yuan
                                        FAMILY_NAME => '³¯',
                                        GIVEN_NAME => '¶ê¶ê'
                                              );
  
      then, it gives statistics like this.
  
        FAMILY_NAME => '³¯',    # Chen
        GIVEN_NAME  => '¶ê¶ê',  # Yuan-yuan
        heavenly    => 12,
        personal    => 24
        earthly     => 26,
        external    => 14,
        general     => 38,
        hexagram    => 'gen over li',
        chart       => '---
                        - -
                        - -
                        ---
                        - -
                        ---'

ILLUSTRATIONS

• FAMILY NAME

  Chinese family names are mostly a single character.

• GIVEN NAME

  comes in one or two characters.

• HEAVENLY CHARACTER

  implies the influence of ancestry on a person.

• PERSONAL CHARACTER

  implies one's disposition or inner attributes.

• EARTHLY CHARACTER

  implies the relation between the environment and person

• EXTERNAL CHARACTER

  is combined with one's heavenly character and earthly character, representing the external factors of one person.

• GENERAL CHARACTER

  is addition of one's heavenly, personal, and earthly characters.

• HEXAGRAM

  is formally introduced to history in I-CHING thousand years ago, and is given for your own interpretation.

CAVEAT

• It is only for casual amusement. No practical use

• Characters are all encoded in Big5 for now.

REFERENCE

Almost every kind of book on Chinese naming is written in Chinese. I list two books in English for you reference.

• Choosing Auspicious Chinese Name by Evelyn Lip

• I CHING, The Oracle by Kerson Huang

COPYRIGHT

xern <xern@cpan.org>

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.