Personal names granting tradition of Chinese culture - kopija

This questionnaire was made by Indre Rudyte – the 4th year bachelor’s student of East Asia cultures and languages studies in Vytautas Magnus University. The questionnaire answers will be used in bachelor work – ”Personal names granting tradition of Chinese culture 20th – early 21st centuries“. The aim of this research is to analyze the factors that affect the Chinese naming traditions and how names are formed in Chinese culture in 20th-early 21st century. Thank you for your time in completing this questionnaire. 谢谢您的时间完成这一调查问卷。

P.S. Please write the Names in characters, pinyin, and if you can write what Your name means in Chinese and English.

Personal names granting tradition of Chinese culture - kopija
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1. Gender: ✪

2. Name: ✪

3. Surname: ✪

4. Date of birth: ✪

5. Place of birth (name the city, village, district, vicinity): ✪

6. Place of Residence (name the city, village, district, vicinity): ✪

7. Did you ever changed your place of residence? ✪

8. If to the previous question you answered "yes", when did you changed your place of residence? and where are you living right now? If to the previous question answered "no" skip this question.

9. What is your nationality? ✪

10. What is your native language? In what language you are communicating with your family members? ✪

11. What is your religion/faith? ✪

1. What is the meaning of Your name? (please write the meaning of Your name in Chinese and English)  ✪

2. What is the meaning of Your surname? (please write the meaning of Your surname in Chinese and English) ✪

3. What is your father's name? What is the meaning of his name? (please write the meaning of Your father‘s name in Chinese and English) ✪

4. What is your mother's name? What is the meaning of her name? (please write the meaning of Your mother‘s name in Chinese and English) ✪

5. What are your brothers / sisters names? What are the meaning of their names? (please write the meaning of Your brothers/sisters names in Chinese and English) ✪

6. What is your grandfather's name? What is the meaning of his name? (please write the meaning of Your grandfather‘s name in Chinese and English) ✪

7. Of how many characters (or lexemes) does your given name consists?  ✪

8. Of how many characters (or lexemes) does your surname consists? ✪

9. Does your name reflects your place between family members?  ✪

10. Does your name defines gender? Whether it is appropriate for both sexes? ✪

11. How do you think, for what reason you were given this name? ✪

12. Who granted the name for you?  ✪

13. In what way this name was chosen for you? Are this name were chosen according to any tradition? ✪

14. Do you believe that the meaning of your name may influence your life? ✪

15. Does your name have associations with a similar pronunciation? ✪

16. What is your name associations, and what the associations mean? If to the 15 question you answered „no“ then go to the next question. (please write Your name association and its meaning in Chinese and English)

17. Do you have a nickname? ✪

18. If to the previous question you answered "yes", then what is your nickname? Why did you choose this nickname/why are you called by this nickname? (please write Your nickname and its meaning in Chinese and English)

19. Does anyone in your family has a generation name? If so, then who has it? What is the name? And what is the meaning of it? (please write the generation name and its meaning in Chinese and English) ✪

20. Do you have a generation name? If so, then what is it? To which generation do you belong? (please write the generation name and its meaning in Chinese and English) ✪

21. Do you know someone who has a generation name? ✪

22. Does your family children's names reflect their birth order in the family? ✪

23. What method is used to give generation names in your family? If to the 19 and 20 question you answered „no“, skip this question.

24. Does members of your family and extended family members maintain close mutual connection? On what occasions you get together? How often you meet? ✪

25. Does any member of your family belongs to any social organization? If so, do you think that this could have affected the selection of your name? ✪

26. What other factors could affect the naming tradition? ✪

27. How your grandparents picked up names for their children? What naming traditions existed at that time? ✪

28. How your parents picked up names for you? What naming traditions existed at that time? ✪

29. How the younger generation pick up names for their children? ✪

30. What naming traditions exist in these days China? What naming trends are in these days? ✪

31. Does Western Europe, US or other western countries names are popular in China today? If so, please give some examples and write from which country it came from. ✪