My grandson Chimi, female, won the bronze medal in the female pole vaulter of the Japanese delegation at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, attracting the attention of Chinese audiences because of her surname.
In 2010, my grandson Zhimei won the bronze medal in the women's pole vault at the Guangzhou Asian Games (the result was 4.15m). Chinese champion Li Ling runner-up Li Caixia.
In the women's pole vault at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, Li Caixia and Li Ling won the first and second places respectively. However, at the award ceremony, the third-place winner overshadowed the two. Because this Japanese player has a very strange name, her name is my grandson Tomomi. When the Guangdong Olympics were attracted by the strange name "My Grandson Zhimei".
In fact, there are many celebrities with the surname "my grandson" in Japan. There is also a Japanese male player named An (Li) Sun Tzu Soyo who participates in the athletics competition of this Asian Games, and the writer I Sun Tzu Takemaru, who is famous for his detective suspense mystery novels, is also well known.
"My grandson" is not literally understood as "my grandson" in Chinese, "my grandson" is not only a surname in Japan, but also a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, located not far from Tokyo, and reads "Abiko" in Japanese. As for its meaning in Japanese, it is worth referring to several theories: Atsuo Mishima pointed out that in the Kyo language of Indochina, there is the word "アビ(火)クク(神)", that is, "fire god", so the meaning of the place name should indicate that the place is a place where the fire god is sacrificed. In addition, Eiji Morita also pointed out that in hebrew , "Abik (Our Father) " is also used as a place name to worship ancestors.
In addition, there are many more strange surnames than my grandson. For example, turtles (this Chinese should not be used, but the Japanese believe that turtles live long and are very auspicious), hyakumu ghosts (no wonder they are called devils... ), Sex ghosts (also very appropriate), dog breeding (dog-like?). ), Inawayo, Ezo (Yamato Imperial Court's contemptuous name for Hokkaido), and so on. Some literal meanings are insulting in themselves, but it is not known why Japanese people use this surname. Is it a matter of history? Or is it the inheritance of culture? Perhaps we can understand it this way: the ancient Japanese were more superstitious, and due to the medical conditions at that time, many newborn Japanese babies would die prematurely. In order to make the children grow up healthily, the Japanese will give their sons names such as "abandoned" and "picked up", indicating that the son is abandoned or picked up. They believed that so that Death would not take away their son. In the same way, out of a folk custom or belief, changing one's family name to something that looks literally indecent, ominous or even unknown is a way for the ancient Japanese to avoid evil.