Good names for modern celebrities
The names of many famous people you are familiar with in modern China also come from classical sentences
- Thinker Kang Youwei (康有為)
The name is taken from "孟子" "a gentleman does something, and something does not." (君子有所為,有所不為)
- Writer Zhou Shuren (周樹人)
Taken from "管子" "終身之計,莫如樹人"
- Writer Zhang Henshui (張恨水)
It is taken from Li Yu (李煜) of the Tang Dynasty, "自是人生長恨水長東".
- Educator Fu Sinian (傅斯年)
"Si Nian" comes from "Book of Songs Daya": "昭茲來許,繩其祖武。於萬斯年,受天之祜"
So do you want a Chinese name like them too?