First, the meaning of household registration
Household registration, also known as hukou, refers to the legal documents made by the administrative organs responsible for household registration management to record and retain the basic information of the registered population. It is also the identification of each of our citizens. Hukou book is a public certificate book that registers and issues certificates to natural persons on a household basis. The recorded items include the natural person's name, date of birth, relatives and marital status. It is the basic legal document to determine the legal status of natural persons as civil subjects.
Second, the history of household registration
The original method of population registration was founded in the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to Zhou Li Qiu Guan Simin, "there are more people in Simin's hands than their own teeth. It's all written in the edition, arguing about their country, their contempt and their countryside. Unlike his men and women, he was born at 18 years old and died at 18 years old. Three years later, the same number of people wrote to Scott. Scott and Meng Dong presented them to the king on the day when they sacrificed to Simin. Wang Baizhi went to Tianfu. " The Zhou Dynasty had the rudiment of the household registration system.
Household registration is not necessarily a person's native place, and it is different from someone's native place, especially in economically developed areas, some new places that began to be built after the founding of New China, and places that have developed rapidly since modern times. Many people's native place is not the place of household registration, but their native place or ancestral home. These people generally moved here from other places after the reform and opening up in the era of planned economy in China, according to the requirements of the country at that time.