Lingua::ZH::ChineseNaming - Analyzing Chinese Names

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

  print Dumper $n;

 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.

* 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 => 'ΆκΆκ'
					    );

    then, it gives statistics like this.

      FAMILY_NAME => '³―',    # Chen
      GIVEN_NAME  => 'ΆκΆκ',  # Yuan-yuan
      heavenly    => 12,
      personal    => 24
      earthly     => 26,
      external    => 14,
      general     => 38,
      hexagram    => 'gen over li',
      chart       => '---
                      - -
                      - -
                      ---
                      - -
                      ---'

* 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.

* It is only for casual amusement. No practical use

* Characters are all encoded in Big5 for now.

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

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