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China bans weird baby names ALREADY only allowed to have one child, Chinese parents may now face restrictions on what name they can give their baby. China is planning to introduce new regulations on name registration because the government's computer database is unable to handle rare Chinese characters, state media reported today. The Ministry of Public Security's name database for new electronic identity cards to be issued to China's 1.3 billion population in 2008 does not contain thousands of uncommon characters. "We cannot handwrite rare characters on the cards like we did before," the China Daily quoted Bao Suixian, a deputy director at the Ministry of Public Security, as saying. In China, there is a strong tradition of making up unique names for babies that carry hopes for their child's future. Chinese parents often choose simple words such as "strength", "wisdom" and "bright" for boys and "serenity" and "beauty" for girls. But they also like to choose words from ancient
poems rarely used in the contemporary Chinese language. Chinese parents have already endured years of strict family laws following the introduction of a one-child policy in 1979 to limit the nation's population growth. --------------------------------------------------- Please help our fight against the New World Order by giving a donation. As bandwidth costs increase, the only way we can stay online and expand is with your support. Please consider giving a monthly or one-off donation for whatever you can afford. You can pay securely by either credit card or Paypal. Click here to donate. |
