Therefore, in Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, and other places, there is the custom of "sow-names," or "collecting the sow tax," which means that when a man and woman become betrothed, they agree that some of their sons will take the mother's ancestral name, like a tax in kind.
因此在福建、廣東、台灣等地方，民間有一種「豬母姓」，也叫抽豬母稅，就是從母姓的意思。在男女嫁娶時，約好將來生的兒子中有幾個人要跟媽媽娘家姓，就像抽稅一樣。