amaotonovel Chapter 1171 It wasn't even a month before someone had their eyes on it!
Chapter 1171 It wasn't even a month before someone had their eyes on it!
Have you decided on a name for your child in advance?
Jin'er suddenly stopped laughing, and looked at Empress Ma with a pitiful expression once again, saying, "I said to pick one from the Book of Songs, but that unreliable Yu'er said to pick one from the Hongwu Dictionary, but my husband is unreliable, he insisted on naming her Yang Baobei..."
Empress Ma was also stunned.
Yang Baobei?
The eldest daughter of the Duke of Yingguo's mansion is named Yang Baobei?
No, what was this bastard thinking? Calling her "Yang Baby" when she was little was fine, but what happens when she gets older and gets married? When she has children, will she tell them, "Mommy's name is Yang Baby"? If we think even further ahead, what should be written on her tombstone?
"My dear late mother, Madam Yang?"
Empress Ma felt dizzy just thinking about it.
Emperor Zhu glanced at Empress Ma, then at Jin'er, whose face was full of displeasure, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you two?"
Seeing that Empress Ma and Jin'er did not answer, Emperor Zhu turned to Yang Shaofeng and asked, "You scoundrel, don't you care about your daughter?"
Yang Shaofeng was holding Jin'er's hand and whispering, "My wife, you've worked so hard," when he heard this, he turned his head and said urgently, "Who wouldn't love her? I've been longing for a precious daughter for so long, how could I not love her?"
Empress Ma said with a dark face, "So, you named your daughter Yang Baobei?"
Yang Shaofeng, with an air of self-righteousness, raised his voice and said, "What a great name! You can tell it's the family's darling just by hearing it."
What can you find by flipping through the Book of Songs? Nothing more than names like "Zhenzhen", "Zihan", "Jiayue", and "Jianuo".
What can you possibly find by flipping through the "Hongwu Dictionary"? If you find Yang Mi, I'm afraid she'll run into a scumbag like Script Guy in the future.
Let's call him Yang Baobei. It's a simple, straightforward, and easy-to-remember name.
Emperor Zhu finally couldn't hold back any longer. He walked over and slapped Yang Shaofeng on the head, scolding him, "If you had said that 'Baby' was a nickname, we would have tolerated it."
"The problem is, you named her Yang Baobei, are you planning to use this name for her in the family tree?"
"When we bestow a title upon her later, will the imperial edict also say, 'The precious Yang is hereby granted the title of Princess of Ningyang County'?"
Zhu Biao, oblivious to the danger, retorted, "What if I have a son and want to name Baobei as my future Crown Princess? Wouldn't the imperial edict say, 'The Yang family has a daughter named Baobei, virtuous and kind'? And if it's later that my son becomes Emperor, what will the Empress's edict say...?"
Before Zhu Biao could finish speaking, the Emperor Zhu turned around and slapped Zhu Biao on the head, scolding him: "You don't even have a son yet, get out of here."
Yang Shaofeng also glared angrily at the black sesame dumplings.
You've already got your eye on those black sesame dumplings?
My daughter isn't even a month old yet!
Empress Ma ignored the three abnormal people making a fuss, glared at Yang Shaofeng, and said, "You can use 'baby' as a nickname, but we still need to think about your formal name."
At this point, Empress Ma couldn't help but reprimand, "Naming is a serious matter; it can't be done so casually!"
Yang Shaofeng thought to himself, "No matter how casual I am, can I really be compared to some bandit?"
That guy named his eldest daughter "Mou Nu". Not only were those two characters included in the Chang family genealogy, but they were also prominently featured in the golden book for the investiture of the Crown Princess. And now you all complain that I named my daughter so casually?
Just as Yang Shaofeng was secretly complaining, Chang, one of the targets of his complaints, touched her belly and said quietly, "Brother-in-law, you should give our daughter a better name. Our Ming Dynasty already has a crown princess with a very casual name. The next crown princess should at least have a nice-sounding name."
Yang Shaofeng was furious and said urgently, "My darling won't marry! It's not like I can't afford to support her!"
Goodness, it's not enough that I've been thinking about black sesame dumplings, you, who can name things so casually, have also started thinking about them?
Empress Ma looked at Ms. Chang with suspicion, then suddenly smiled and said, "Alright, we'll talk about marriage later. We need to give this girl a nice name. Even if you don't care what's written on her betrothal letter, you should at least consider what's written on the family genealogy."
Jin'er chimed in, "That's right! We'll call her 'Baby' in private, but you need to give her a proper name and a courtesy name. You can start thinking about it now, and we'll give her a nice courtesy name when she turns fifteen."
Pay attention.
In ancient times, men were given a courtesy name at the age of twenty, and women were given a courtesy name at the age of fifteen.
This means that men received their courtesy names after the coming-of-age ceremony at the age of twenty, and women received their courtesy names after the hairpin ceremony at the age of fifteen, signifying that they had officially come of age. The phrase "waiting in one's boudoir for a name" originated from this.
Furthermore, in ancient times, women did not have their husbands' surnames prefixed to their names. There were no titles like Yang Zhu Shi or Chen Li Shi; only titles like Zhu Shi or Li Shi were used. It was not uncommon for women to be the sole breadwinners of their families.
Similarly, in ancient times, it was a formal marriage ceremony that involved giving betrothal gifts rather than dowries. When marrying off a daughter, one should provide a full dowry instead of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in dowry and then providing three quilts as a dowry.
The bride price and dowry quilts belonged to the concubine.
All sorts of nonsensical and absurd ideas, such as the husband taking the wife's surname and the bride price, were mostly introduced by a certain Qing dynasty official after the Jia Shen year.
Just as the practice of women cutting off their feet to prevent escape was distorted into foot binding—foot binding existed in the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, but it was done to make the feet look better, not to bind them in the way that cut off their feet.
Before the Jianyi entered the pass, in the Ming Dynasty, women were not exactly equal to men, but in fact, they were not much different. It could even be said that "being afraid of one's wife was the norm," and some people even wrote a book called "The Book of Fear of One's Wife."
"The Buddha spoke of the Sutra of Fearing One's Wife. A wife is no ordinary person; she is a star in the heavens. What kind of star is she? She is a black killing star, a white tiger star, a celestial dog star, a celestial thief star, a celestial net star, an earthly net star. When she doesn't offend, she's still tolerable; when she offends, she's terrifying. If she's agreeable, she's all smiles and her eyes are full of spring; if she's against it, storms will rise up immediately, dark clouds will gather from nowhere, and her beautiful face will turn ugly. She doesn't care about the person beside her pillow; she'll utter treacherous words at will, and the cries of 'Heavenly Killer' will never cease. She'll bind you like a prisoner, pull your hair like a door god, her fists will rain down, and her toes will be like shooting stars..."
Even more ridiculous is the story of "rising high in the sky, deliberately acting gracefully, not combing his hair, not wearing trousers, and when his lustful desires were aroused, he would beat his penis anywhere."
The description of the beating here is truly remarkable. The author's reaction, "trembling with fear, glancing at the night sky as the sun sets, gathering his spirits, though sharing a bed with his wife, he is always on guard," perfectly captures the cowardly state of those who "soak goji berries in their thermos cups."
Then, the author added at the end, "Namo 'Afraid of Wife Bodhisattva Mahasattva, Maha Prajna Paramita'."
Yang Shaofeng strongly suspected that the author of this book, "The Book of Fear of One's Wife," was likely surnamed Zhu, or possibly Qi.
Of course, whether they are afraid of their wives is their business; the key issue is their daughter's name.
Why can't Yang Baobei's name be included in the family tree?
No, that's not the point. The point is that my daughter isn't even a month old yet and someone's already got their eye on her!