The meaning behind MDZS names - Wei Ying Wei Wuxian
My work has been hectic lately, so I don’t have time to tackle more complex topic, write longer articles, or answer trickier questions that require a lot of time and writing. I still want to write anthropological blog posts about MDZS. So I figure something shorter and more simple would be the answer.
In any case, MXTX once said that she named (things and characters) based on feelings. I find this very interesting, because character names in MXTX works tend to foreshadow things about the characters themselves.
Let’s start with Wei Ying Wei Wuxian, whose name foreshadow his founding the Path of the Dead (Guidao).
- Wei Ying’s surname composes of two words:
Gui 鬼 Ghost / Dead soul . The Gui of Guidao 鬼道 (Path of the Dead), the proper name for the cultivation school that Wei Wuxian created.
Wei 委 : which simultaneously mean ‘to stand alone,’ ‘to tower over other’, ‘to be abandoned’, and ‘to be wrongly accused.’
I wrote about Wuxian before in the Wei Wuji post, so I shan’t repeat myself.
And now for something fun!
- There are three radicals for female / woman 女 in Wei Ying Wei Wuxian. One in his surname Wei 魏 (repeated twice in the proper full address Wei Ying Wei Wuxian)，one in his given first name Ying 婴. He is the only one in the main cast whose name carries the radical for woman.
- Wei Wuxian was associated with female / woman three times in the novel: his name (in which there are three radicals for woman), when A Yuan calls him mom, and when he himself likens him and Lan Wangji to his parents, imagining him in his mother’s place atop a donkey and thinking that only a child was missing to complete this image.
- The number 3 in Daoism represents the female aspect as it is the number that gives birth to all other things (Dao De Jing, 400 BC)
道生一 一生二 二生三 三生万物 (Dao births one, one births two, two births three, three births all)
- In modern vernacular, important things must be repeated three times. I’m sure fans of SVSSS know this phrase well.
What do you do with this information? I don’t know. Have fun, maybe? :D
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