According to Baidu Encyclopedia, as of the end of 2017, the population of mainland China reached 1.39008 billion. Duplicate names are inevitable, so which name is the most commonly used in China? Have you ever encountered any interesting stories about duplicate names?
As early as 2005, someone wrote a program to count the rate of duplicate names of users who visited their own website, and then thought that Liu Bo should be ranked first, so he posted the screenshot on his blog. On the website, he was completely shocked by the 300,000 hits per day. It was then that he realized how much people cared about their names. Later, a blog called "Chinese Surname Authority" pointed out "the 50 names with the most duplicate names in China" and said that "Zhang Wei" is the real "China's No. 1 Brother". With the application of big data, according to the data I have covering more than 90% of the Chinese population, the three names with the most duplicate names in China should be: Zhang Wei with 299,000 people, Wang Wei with 291,000 people, and Wang Fang with 277,000 people.
When I was in school, it was always inevitable to meet classmates with the same name. At that time, in order to distinguish the classmates with the same name, the teacher named them big XX, small XX and so on. For example, Da Zhangwei and Xiao Zhangwei.
In every era, people have their own favorite names. For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, there was a book "Jijiupian" for teaching children to read, which listed 165 names: Guangguo, Aijun, Loyalty, Xianliang, Yao and Shun, Yutang, Yannian, Hanqiang, Destroy Hu, Polu... Another example is that in the early days of the founding of New China, the names with a relatively high rate of duplication were Jianguo, Aid Korea, Patriot... What they represent The most popular mainstream values ??at the time.
In ancient times, duplicate names often occurred. At that time, people wanted to solve the problem of naming. They all chose names and nicknames, such as Li Bai, whose nickname was Taibai, whose nickname was Qinglian Jushi, and another nickname was "Exiled Immortal"; Du Fu, whose courtesy name was Zimei, called himself Shaoling Yelao.
The following is a short story about duplicate names.
The new semester has begun, and the students happily walked into the classroom. The head teacher, Teacher Zeng, is a young and beautiful recent graduate of the Normal College. She called out the names of these new classmates in her sweet and melodious voice. When the name of a classmate is called, that classmate will excitedly stand up from his seat like a spring, puff out his chest, and proudly shout "arrive" to confirm that from today on, he is a student. A middle school student.
The strange thing is that when Teacher Zeng read the name "Jingbo", two students stood up at the same time. Teacher Zeng was puzzled. She took a closer look at the roster, and she was happy. It turned out that there were two people named "Jingbo" in the class. In order to avoid the embarrassing situation of two people answering at the same time when calling the same name, the head teacher, Teacher Zeng, returned to the office and asked the grade leader, Teacher Xu, for advice. Teacher Xu said: "Xiao Zeng, you don't teach mathematics, can this problem still stump you? You can solve the problem by adding a word to the name according to the age characteristics of these children with the same name!" From then on! The names of these two classmates in the class were "Jing Yibo" and "Jing Erbo" respectively, and they were still called that way by their classmates many years after graduation.
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Duplication of names is inevitable, but there are overlaps in some places.
Some place names are repeated because they all use the same thing as their name. For example, Neijiang City has Shizhong District, Leshan City also has Shizhong District, there is Shuangbei Township in Yanting, Sichuan, and there is also one in Shangrao, Hebei. Shuangbei Township; in some cases, it was because of the resettlement. People after the migration missed the place where they lived before, so they called the new migration place its original name. Of course, this nomenclature sometimes causes some confusion. For example, an article titled "How to Have a Road Named After Yourself in Beijing" once went viral on the Internet. There was a young man who looked around for remote roads that had not yet been officially named on the map. When he found them, he made a copy of a road sign at his own expense, named all these unnamed roads after himself, and then uploaded these "place name signs" to major map websites. This artificially creates many roads with the same names, which not only facilitates people, but also causes them a lot of unnecessary trouble.