Members of the Gou family in China have been reclaiming their original name, Jing, changed in the 10th century. Of course a news story in English isn’t likely to give the exact Chinese characters and meanings involved with the names, but it is clear that Gou sounds like the word for dog though it wasn’t the same character. The dog soundalike has caused distress over many years. A thousand years of oral history has distorted the original reason for the change, but a look at the Chinese characters makes the alteration clearer than the explanation given in the American news story. The right side of the character “jing” resembles “fan” which means revolt or rebel. A Jing of that time decided to remove that portion, leaving “gou” which means careless. The news story gives the meaning as humble, which, since I’m illiterate, means I need to ask the Daddy Dictionary for clarification next time I see it (or maybe someone literate will send email).