Many politicians on the island changed their names to be "recognizable" during the election, and some people changed their names to "Ip Man" and "Qingtian"

　　[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Local elections in Taiwan will be held at the end of the year. Politicians who want to run for city councillors are trying to improve their image and impress the public, so they choose to change their names.

　　According to a report by Taiwan's United News Network on the 5th, a politician from the island's dark green small party "Power of the Times" wants to participate in the election of Tainan City Councilor's 6th constituency at the end of the year. His propaganda name is "Chen Jian Daming".

Many people are curious about his four-character name, "Is it the compound surname Chen Jian?" "What a special name."

In fact, he changed his name for the election.

Chen Jiandaming's original name was Chen Jianming. The reason he changed his name was that he thought his original name was too common and unrecognizable, and there were even "people who did bad things".

　　In fact, throughout the history of elections in Taiwan, there are not many people who changed their names for elections. Most of the reasons are to deepen the impression of voters and choose a name with a high degree of recognition.

For example, in 2015, a person who wanted to run for the leadership of the Taiwan region changed his name to "Huang Hongcheng, Taiwan Acheng President of the World's Great God of Fortune", with a total of 15 characters, becoming the person with the longest name on the island at that time. Later, he Registered to run for "legislators" and lost by 2,000 votes.

Some people changed their real names to "Soong Chuyu", "Ip Man", "Qingtian" and so on for the sake of election.

　　In addition to politicians who are generally running for elections, there are also some artists who have turned to politics and changed their names directly to their stage names, so as not to be unrecognized by the public during the election.

For example, Ying Xiaowei, a Taipei city councilor from the Kuomintang who starred in the 1984 version of "The Condor Heroes" and "The Deer Ding Ji", changed her name for the city councillor in 2010, and in 2020 became the first member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee from the entertainment industry in the history of the Kuomintang.

Yu Tian, ​​a singer who became popular on the island for his cover of the famous Japanese song "Spring in the North" to "Under the Banyan Tree", also changed his stage name to Ben Ming in 2007. He became a "legislator" of the electoral party in 2008.

　　In fact, if you want to change your name on the island, the procedure is not complicated.

Adults only need to bring their ID cards, household registration books and recent photos, and they can change their name for a few minutes at a price of tens of NT dollars. Each person can have 3 opportunities to change their name in their lifetime.

In 2021, this newspaper reported the "salmon name change tide" that appeared on the island. At that time, a conveyor belt sushi restaurant said that if the name contained the word "salmon", they could eat sushi for free.

According to reports at the time, hundreds of people in Taiwan changed their name to "Salmon" just for this petty gain, and the United News Network criticized at that time "highlighting the rashness and absurdity of Taiwan's name system."

(Li Yao)