It started Building Buddhist shrines in 578ad, and was still run by a man surnamed Kongo 40 generations later.
A farmer surnamed Wang, who thought up the unique idea, said most of his "milk watermelons " have been booked in advance.
A depositor surnamed Cao went to a bank last week to deposit RMB300. To her astonishment, the bank charged her 6RMB as a "counting fee."
Last year, on the30 th anniversary of an earthquake that killed perhaps600,000 people in Tangshan, near Beijing, the official press reported( approvingly) that a quake orphan surnamed Party had just joined the party and would not dream of changing her name to the one she was born with.
