Surnames from the void Because of the importance Chinese people assign to surnames, one of the basic primers for schoolchildren is the Book of Family Names. Everyone can recite "Chao, Chien, Sun, and Li; Chou, Wu, Cheng, and Wang" from memory.
正因為中國人對姓氏如此重視，中國早年孩童的啟蒙書之一就是《百家姓》，「趙錢孫李、周吳鄭王」人人朗朗上口。