The “surname is too rare” Lu man was ridiculed and ostracized

In the Chinese society, there are many rare and out-of-the-way surnames. In Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, there is a security guard with the surname of Pig, who was ridiculed and ostracized because his surname was too special, making him feel so painful that he once wanted to change his surname.

According to the Ministry of the Interior’s Department of Household Affairs statistics in 2018, there are actually two people with this surname in Taiwan. According to China Daily, the security guard surnamed Pig confessed that because his surname is so special, few people have heard of it, so every Time he introduced himself, people would mistakenly think his surname was “Zhu”, and when they found out that his surname was actually “Pig”, some people would deliberately make fun of his name and spit out, “Is your ancestor Pig Bajie?” It was so painful that he wanted to change his surname.

In fact, according to the “National Name Statistics” published by the Department of Household Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior in 2018, there are 1832 surnames in Taiwan, with the top 10 surnames being Chen, Lin, Huang, Zhang, Li, Wang, Wu, Liu, Cai, Yang, and the “pig surname (a variant of pig)”, there are only 2 people left in Taiwan, which is indeed quite rare.