Half a century ago, there were many Xiao's, but few Xiao's. After the promulgation of the First List of Variant Characters and the Simplified Scheme of Chinese Characters, many people think that Xiao is a variant of Xiao, or that Xiao is a simplified character of Xiao. So many people surnamed Xiao, for the sake of simplicity, write Xiao as Xiao.

The staff of some departments often write Xiao as Xiao when they go through the formalities of identity card, household registration and admission for people surnamed Xiao. Therefore, in recent decades, the surname Xiao has increased (it is not excluded that some people used to be surnamed Xiao), and there is even a trend to replace the surname Xiao. For example, "Shenzhen Surname Talk" contains: "Xiao is Xiao, and Xiao is Xiao. .

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In recent years, with the reform and opening up, more and more people in China have changed their surnames to Xiao.

After several decades, some young people surnamed Xiao may not know that they were originally from Xiao's family (from the ID card, their grandfather and father also wrote their own surname "Xiao"), thus easily denying their surname Xiao. In fact, these people can research from several aspects:

1 Like the ancestral temple, no matter how Xiao changed after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the word "Xiao" built on the ancestral temple of Xiao will not change.

2. Ask your elders, especially those over 60. They must have used the surname Xiao when they were young.

3, ancestral graves, the words engraved on ancestral graves must be Xiao and so on.

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