A pair of parents in Taizhou, Zhejiang named their child “Li Bushangshu”. (Picture / Retrieved from Weibo)
Many parents ask fortune tellers for help when naming their children, and some even use weird homonyms in order to avoid names. A pair of parents in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, recently shared their son’s birth certificate. The child is called “Li Bu Shang Shu”, which is homophonic “Li Bu Shang Shu”, which has caused heated discussions on the Internet.
The parents posted their son’s medical certificate of birth. It can be seen that the baby boy’s name is “Li Bushangshu”, born in March 2020, and also wrote: “Mom and Dad avoided all the Internet celebrity names for you, this name is I hope you will like it when you grow up.”
The father of the baby boy revealed to Jimu News that his son is now over 2 years old. The name was first thought of by his wife, but his wife was only joking at the time, but he felt that the name “Li Bushangshu” was very distinctive and would hardly be known. Hit the name, decided to give the child this name. Unexpectedly, when preparing to register the child with a household registration, the wife hesitated, feeling that the name was too arbitrary. In addition, the elders in the family did not agree, but they have gradually accepted it over the past few years.
The baby boy’s mother also mentioned that she and her husband secretly went to get a birth certificate because they were afraid that the elders in the family would not accept it. They would not call “Li Bushangshu” at home, but called “Tie Dan” by their nickname. There is a reason, “because the child has been deficient in iron since childhood, he has such a nickname.”
After the news was exposed, a heated discussion was aroused. Some netizens thought that the homophonic stalks were used well, “the pattern is opened at once”, but there were also many people who objected, “The big name and the small name must have a better sound, right? Why is it like this…” , “The child will resent his parents for the rest of his life”, “I can imagine how much this child will resent his parents following he goes to school”, “I just want to make myself happy, do you consider the feelings of the child growing up?”