Tradition of Name 

Here comes my name: 黄名欣, this is the character version), Mingxin Huang is the English version). In Chinese, there are three characters, but it looks like just two words in English. I did not inherit it from my family, but one of words “xin (欣）” was given by my oldest aunt. In Chinese, it means any kind of things will get better and better.  

It was very simple why my parents did not make a name for their own son because they did not have any ideas that came from their brains. Whenever I ask them, they will just laugh a whlie.  

I do not have a middle name, but “Ming（名）” the word from in the middle of my name was followed to make by my grandfather’s hometown tradition. It is located in Foshan, China, and its name is Changqi. Basically, all of my generations of my family got the same word in our names. The elders from this place got books that have specific words for every generations. When I read the books, I noticed that many ancient middle names were recorded in those books too. But to this day, I have never learned where those words came from. This is all about my real name. 

I also have a nickname “Pomo”, and it was created by myself. I just picked four random letters out of twenty-four and put them together because I thought that it was easy for English speakers to pronounce. A fun fact about it, it is that I learned “Pomo” means apple in French from a book two years ago, and I was super surprised. 

At last, I would say there is no interesting or amazing stories behind my name, but I do like to share about it.