在古代封建社会的中上层人物,尤其是文人雅士,总喜欢给自己起个号。起号之风,从什么时候开始,文献资料上没有详细记载,大概在春秋战国时就有了。像“老聃”、“鬼谷子”等,可视为我国最早的别号。因为“号”是自己起的,所以它不像姓名那样要受家族、宗法、礼仪以及行辈的限制,可以自由地抒发和标榜使用者的志向和情趣,因此出现了许许多多各式各样的别号。 In the ancient feudal society, the upper middle class, especially the literati, always like to give yourself a number. Citation of the wind, from when the literature did not detail the record, probably in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period. Like “old 聃 ”, “Guigu millet ”, can be regarded as China’s earliest alias. Because “” is its own starting, it is not like the name of the family, patriarchal, etiquette and Xing generation restrictions, freedom to express and advertised the user’s ambition and fun, so there are many Various alias