<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cbcf51f1-f86c-4c4d-802d-9951ca08e752/0C902D9E-DD0D-4850-ACF6-4CC13C0EBBDA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/12/93-million-wangs/" href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/12/93-million-wangs/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.neatorama.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/12/93-million-wangs/"><DIV id="post-9000" class="post"> <H1><A title="Permanent Link: 93 Million Wangs." class="noline" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/12/93-million-wangs/">93 Million Wangs.</A></H1> <DIV align="center"> <BR /><HR class="hr1" /> </DIV> <DIV> <P><IMG class="imageleft" alt="china_flag_map-sq120.gif" src="http://www.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/china_flag_map-sq120.gif" id="image8999" title="china_flag_map-sq120.gif" />85% of the 1.3 billion citizens of China share only about 100 family names. There are 93 million people with the surname Wang! To alleviate the confusion, the Chinese government is considering new naming rules.</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P><EM>Under a new draft regulation released by the ministry of public security, parents will be able to combine their surnames for their children, a move that could open up 1.28 million new possibilities, the China Daily reported.</EM></p> <P><EM>For instance, a father named Zhou and mother named Zhu could choose to call their child either Zhou, Zhu, Zhouzhu or Zhuzhou, the report added.</EM></P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>And then if this child married <A href="http://www.zuzu.net/">George Bailey’s daughter</A>, her name would become… oh never mind. <A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070612/lf_afp/lifestylechinasocietynameoffbeat_070612065246">Link</A> -via <A href="http://www.neatorama.com/dd">Fark</A></p> <DIV class="clearboth"> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <HR class="hr1" /> <HR class="hr1" /> </DIV> <P align="center"> Posted on Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 at 9:57 am by <A href="http://www.misscellania.com">Miss Cellania</A><BR /><DIV> Category: <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Travel & Places" href="http://www.neatorama.com/category/geography-travel/">Travel & Places</A>. Feed: <A href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/12/93-million-wangs/feed/">RSS 2.0</A></DIV> </p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0C902D9E-DD0D-4850-ACF6-4CC13C0EBBDA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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