Name and word are actually two concepts. A name refers to a person's address. Names have existed since the beginning of human civilization. The earliest names were given casually, and parents could call their children whatever they wanted. Later, due to the needs of different tribes, surnames representing tribes appeared in front of the names. At this time, people are called names, such as the surname of the Yellow Emperor Gongsun and the surname of the Yan Emperor Jiang. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, people began to address some people with status and achievements (mainly emperors) with honorifics, calling them numbers, the living people with honorifics, and the dead people with names of posthumous title. For example, Wen is posthumous title. Around the Spring and Autumn Period, people began to marry other names besides their own names, which were called epigrams. Simplified characters generally express their wishes or thoughts, such as Confucius' surname, Confucius' first name and Zhong Ni. Later, people gradually linked names with words to form words referring to others, which is the origin of "names".