Thus, for example, when the Hsiao Wen emperor of the Northern Wei dynasty undertook the enforced assimilation of peoples, all the Hsienpei people adopted Chinese hsing-shih.
像是北魏孝文帝拓拔宏實行民族大融合，鮮卑族人全部改為漢姓。他更以身作則，率先改姓為元。