"i'm american baby, our names don't mean shit"
but seriously, i never knew that. my family tree which is chinese roots back all the way to the tan dynasty. we are the progeny of the emperor of the tan dynasty according to our family tree. anyways, for the chinese, our three-letter names only have one letter of creativity. The middle letters of our name (for men of the family only that is) are decided by a poem written by the earliest of our ancestors. Thus, if i meet another who has the last name of Lee, i can determine his "generation" (used to be really important in the chinese culture) for the last name lee is created in china during the tan dynasty by the emperor (there is actually a story about it.. i won't bother) so we Lees are all related in a sense. well, i went a bit off topic sorry---
Last edited by orphen; 08-05-2004 at 06:14 PM..
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