However, women do not have equal rights in the feudal society; neither they have a name of their own. In the early feudal time, a woman can only have a family name as Shi, then after they got married, they put the husbands’ name Xing before the Shi, and that would be the way to refer to a woman, no given name at all. Although Chinese family names have a rich history and cultural content, women are still not allowed to be recorded in the book of the family tree. As an exception, my given name appeared on my family tree represents all my ancestors who admitted my status as the heir.
A Chinese name is constructed with a Family name then a given name, some families would name their child’s middle name following the family tree guide (not many follow this tradition now). Thus, one can research the ancestors by following the family name trail, and then the middle character as seniority in the clan, then the last name as the given name.
Nonetheless, if a person’s name only has two characters in it, the order would be family name, then given name. It is unused for people to call a person by family name (as there could be so many same family names), usually, a person is called by family name and given name, friends would refer to each other by given names.
Earthbound Society and Psychotherapy Challenges
In Chinese, people refer to Psych as Xin. Xin is a typical Oracle bone script, as it was like draw a heart. This means the heart, the inner. The Chinese medicine consider the heart as the commander of all (functioned as brain), Xin is also known as the mind and the emotion procession center. Inevitably, one could say Xin is not separated from the mind and soul, rather a combination of feelings, desire, wish, love, and intelligence. A psychotherapist is called Xin Li therapist, which is not meaning the therapist of heart condition but the therapist of suffering souls.
(The Oracle Bone script of Xin ??
