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*Owing to both effects, there has also been a recent trend in China to hire fortune tellers to change people's names to new ones more in accordance with traditional Taoist and five element practices. In creating a new Chinese name, it is sometimes the practice to analyze the number of strokes in the characters used in the potential name and attempt to use characters that produce specific totals of strokes.<ref>"Chinese name", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_name, accesed 5 March 2021.</ref> | *Owing to both effects, there has also been a recent trend in China to hire fortune tellers to change people's names to new ones more in accordance with traditional Taoist and five element practices. In creating a new Chinese name, it is sometimes the practice to analyze the number of strokes in the characters used in the potential name and attempt to use characters that produce specific totals of strokes.<ref>"Chinese name", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_name, accesed 5 March 2021.</ref> | ||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_name | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_name Chinese name] in Wikipedia | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Family_Surnames Book Of Hundred Surnames] in Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Family_Surnames Book Of Hundred Surnames] in Wikipedia | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_surname Chinese Surname] in Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_surname Chinese Surname] in Wikipedia | ||