Chapter 134 Speculations triggered by the surname
"So, your name is Zhou Qing?"
Qingzhu Zhu asked, "You are quite cautious."
"So, is your name Zhu Zhuqing?" Zhou Qing asked back, "A young lady like you would definitely have another name to the outside world, just like Xiao Wu, I still don't know what her last name is."
Tang San was stunned, and asked Xiao Wu: "What's your last name?"
"Rou, full name Rouwu." Xiao Wu said proudly, "What do you think? My last name is very beautiful, right?"
"I only saw the perfunctory response, and directly took the first word of 'Soft Bone Rabbit'." Zhou Qing complained.
"Tsk, what does your name mean?"
Xiao Wu stared and asked back.
"My last name was given to me by my parents and I cannot change it. The character 'Qing' means that I was born in summer and the whole mountain was covered with green grass, so I was named Zhou Qing."
Zhou Qing explained, and then said, "But people can always add some meanings to it, just like the two characters Zhou Qing. Zhou means complete, and Qing is the representative color of summer prosperity, which means thriving growth. It means that I am a thriving sapling, and I will eventually be luxuriant in the summer."
"Just keep bragging!" Xiao Wu said with disdain.
Zhou Qing shrugged, not taking it seriously, and said to Qing Zhuzhu, "I know a little about the names of people and places on Douluo Continent, whether they are princes, nobles, or ordinary people. Generally speaking, they can be divided into two categories. One is like Romantina, Barak, and Fastinoxing. We don't know the history and culture of them, and we don't know what they mean at all. The other is like me, Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, etc., and the names sound like something that others can roughly guess what our family was thinking when they named us."
"The origin of my name has already been mentioned. Tang San, the word "three", most people would think that he is the third child in the family, or that his parents named it in memory of someone. Xiao Wu, Wu, means lively and active, which is very appropriate."
"And your name, Qingzhu Zhu, only takes the first two characters. Qingzhu does mean upright, but Qing is your surname, right? Zhuzhu is your name, but I don't understand why the last character 'Zhu' is added at the end. Whether it's Zhu as in bead, Zhu as in pig head, or Zhu as in cinnabar, any of the meanings combined with Qingzhu feels a bit forced."
This was actually Zhou Qing's fabrication, mainly to find a reason for himself to know Qingzhu Zhu's real name.
"Only the other way around, Zhu Zhuqing, Zhu is the surname, Zhuqing is the given name, it means prosperity and wealth, but also integrity, it will be more appropriate. After all, big families are very particular about naming their children, unlike me, I used to have a nickname, Goudan?"
The nickname Goudan was given by old Jack.
But ever since Zhou Qing learned the native language of Douluo Continent and found out that his full name was the same as in his previous life, he firmly demanded that Old Jack erase the down-to-earth nickname "Goudan".
"Puch!"
Qing Zhuzhu laughed out loud and covered her mouth, "Goudan? What a funny name!"
Zhou Qing wanted to slap himself in the face -
He actually said all this out loud!
really!
This copper!
Can’t be refined!
Seeing Tang San also laughing secretly, Zhou Qing said unhappily: "San'er, what are you laughing at? Grandpa Jack also gave you a nickname, Sandan."
"Ga?" Tang San made a strange sound, and his laughter stopped abruptly, "How could I not know?" "You were still young at that time, of course you didn't know, this is what Grandpa Jack told me himself!"
Bang Bang Bang!
Tang San's face was dark as he continued to strike the red-hot iron block.
"Speaking of which, I looked through a lot of information in the Notting Library. The names of people and cities across the continent can all be classified into the two categories I mentioned, 'Zhou Qing' and 'Romantina'."
Zhou Qing's eyes swept over Qing Zhuzhu and her personal maid calmly, and he said in a deep voice, "It's easy to guess the meaning of a name like my Zhou Qing. But for a name like Romantina, although the characters used are the same, the symbolism contained in it seems to require learning a different set of character combinations that have been mostly lost and are only passed down orally."
"I have a guess. That is, there were once two different empires on the Douluo Continent, or two different civilizations. The characters and languages they used were not unified. However, one civilization later destroyed the other civilization. It did not kill the people of that civilization, but erased their language and characters, in order to assimilate them and become a member of the winning civilization. The characters and language we use today are the characters and language of the winning civilization."
"But the descendants of the vanished civilization have forgotten the writing and language created by their ancestors over a long period of time, and have completely integrated into today's civilization. I personally feel that names like Romantina are more like a translation of the language of that vanished civilization into our current civilization, and it is the most basic transliteration. Just like a rooster clucks, we define this sound as the word 'cluck'."
Tang San stopped forging iron, stunned.
Although he already knew Zhou Qing's intelligence, hearing such speculation still made him feel that Zhou Qing was simply so monstrous that he was against the will of heaven.
Through the classification of two different forms of names, we can infer the ancient history:
Even if it's just a guess, it's terrifying enough!
Moreover, this conjecture also made Tang San's thoughts return to his previous life: the dynasties in the Central Plains had always been at odds with the barbarians, but the barbarians could not be killed completely, so the court officials took another measure: education.
How similar is the situation in this Douluo Continent to that in the previous life?
It's just that although the barbarians in this world were successfully "civilized", it seemed that the miserable living conditions of the people did not change. Even the huge empire that once had the potential to unify the continent was divided again.
[The general trend of the world is that after a long period of division, there will be unification, and after a long period of unification, there will be division...]
Tang San sighed secretly and continued to hammer on the iron block.
Xiao Wu no longer understood what Zhou Qing was saying.
But Qingzhuzhu and her maid were stunningly beautiful.
Qingzhu Zhu, or Zhu Zhuqing, has been learning various etiquettes, the history of the Xingluo Empire and the entire Douluo Continent since she was old enough to understand.
Among them, the struggle between the two great civilizations speculated by Zhou Qing may be real.
However, it was not recorded in the history of the Xingluo Empire, but a rumor similar to a myth recorded in gossip.
Twenty thousand years ago, the founder of the Spirit Hall, the owner of the six-winged angel spirit, gathered faith and concentrated his divine position, led the people with strange surnames, and ruled the world.
However, the angel has great love, loves all living beings, is impartial and just, and feels that the language and writing of the civilization she defeated are more refined and efficient, so she directly uses them and abolishes her own language and writing. She also sets an example by changing her surname to Qian, meaning that all ethnic groups with the thousands of surnames on the continent are the people under the angel's throne.
From then on, the writing system and pronunciation were the same...
(End of this chapter)
