ABSTRACT
Our knowledge about the tabooing of personal names during the Yuan 元 dynasty (1279-1368) period is very limited. In the research done by Chinese scholars, it is frequently remarked that this period did “not have taboos.”1 We do know that there is a large and abrupt change in sources from the abundant and numerous examples of taboo practice of the preceding Song dynasty to the virtual absence of them in the Mongolian dynasty. We also know that the Mongols had their own taboo customs, including perhaps the custom of tabooing Mongolian names. This last practice has not yet been studied and will not be discussed here.2
