Old traditions also require people with the same surname or from the same clan to gather at their ancestral temples to worship on this day.
Many foreign–sounding, non-traditional Chinese family names existing in China today can date back to this incident, as the Han Chinese were forced to adapt a Jin last name.
Each episode is dedicated to telling some of the legendary stories that belong with the Chinese surnames in the Hundred Family Surnames ancient text.
In official setting, the number of strokes in a person's surname determines where a name should be placed and the list order.
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:The person who is the subject of this biography has a Chinese name; his family name is Lee.
Born with the surname Chen (陳) in Huarong District, Jing Prefecture (荊州華容), Zhiyi left home to become a monk at eighteen, after the loss of his parents and his hometown Jiangling that fell to the Western Wei army when Zhiyi was seventeen.
The Chinese surname Zhu 竺, which originally meant "a kind of bamboo" and was later used for "India (abbreviating Tianzhu 天竺)" and "Buddhism", was adopted by many early Buddhist monks, such as the polyglot translator Zhu Fahu 竺法護 or Dharmarakṣa (c. 230-316).
Yeon, Yun (燕, 延, 連) is a Korean surname, from Chinese surname family name Yan (燕, 延), Lian (連).