Every place has different customs. There is a very old and wonderful custom in a village in Fujian. The man in this village was surnamed Yang when he was alive, and changed his surname to Xin when he died. This village is called "mountainside village". Because the whole village is halfway up the mountain, it is called mountainside village. In the past, people in mountainside villages made a living by quarrying stones, so the economy was relatively backward and the living conditions of villagers were not good. Later, as time went on.
But today, they still follow the custom of "living yang after death". When the men in this village were alive, their household registration books and ID cards were all surnamed Yang. After death, the names on the tombstone and all places where surnames are needed were changed to "Xin". Their custom is inherited from ancient times. In the Ming dynasty, some people in the Xin family were officials in the imperial court, but later they made mistakes and were destroyed by the emperor.
At that time, there was a woman surnamed Yang in the mountainside village. She married the Xin family. Later, when I returned to my parents' home, something happened to Xin's family, and disaster struck. Only this woman named Yang survived because she went back to her parents' home and was pregnant at that time. Later, this woman named Yang lived in her parents' house and soon gave birth to a son. Because the child was Xin's only blood at that time, the woman surnamed Yang asked her son to be surnamed Yang in order to thank her family. They have been surnamed Yang for generations. Only after they die can they return to their original names, Xin.
Moreover, because girls grow up to get married and belong to other people's families, they don't have to abide by the rule of "giving up their lives".