‘作名(작명)’은 사람의 사회문화적 의식을 언어적인 형태로 담고 있는 대표적 사회언어학 연구 대상이다. 본고는 전통문화를 기본으로 한 중국인의 작명 문화 속에서 시대의 흐름에 따라 새롭게 출현한 현대인의 작명문화 특징에 대해 고찰하는 것을 연구 목적으로 한다. 2장에서는 중국의 전통 작명 문화의 주요한 특징인 종교와 사상의 영향, 시대적 사건과 분위기의 영향, 경전과 문학작품의 인용, 小名(아명)과 금기에 대해 살펴보았다. 3장에서는 현대 중국 작명문화에 새롭게 나타난 특징인 인터넷 작명 서비스 이용의 증가, 대중문화 콘텐츠의 인용, 그리고 전통 姓, 名 관습의 변화에 대해 살펴보았다.
Naming is a representative social language study that contains a person's social and cultural consciousness in a verbal form. By examining the characteristics of Chinese traditional and modern naming culture, this paper aims to study the past and present changes. First of all, Chapter 2 looked at the socio-cultural characteristics traditionally shown in Chinese naming culture. Traditionally, the Chinese were greatly influenced by the influence of religion and thought, the period events and atmosphere in their titles, cited the names of scriptures or literary works, and had their own unique culture of nomenclature and taboo. The chapter 3 then examined the new features of modern Chinese naming culture. With the development of China's social economy and science and technology and the rapid spread of the Internet and digital devices, the popular culture of the younger generation's parents has also been influenced by the naming law as consumption has increased and lifestyle has changed. We looked at the increasing use of Internet naming services, citations of pop culture content, and changes in the customs of traditional Family name + Given name. Modern parents prefer individuality to traditional culture, and they write their names under the influence of modernized lifestyles and popular culture. The study of society, culture and language can find many answers in the study of naming names and we need to pay more attention to these changes.