What's the experience of having a rare surname?

Having a rare surname is a very funny oolong experience. The specific experience is as follows:

My family name is Xiang, and my first name is Ning. Primary school is ok, most students call it "eraser", "photo", "elephant" and "elephant".

In addition, if you introduce yourself to strangers, you should generally explain that it is not the direction or the item of the project. Anyway, there are many explanations.

Later, when I was in junior high school, I learned "Guangwu Daze Township Uprising, Chen Sheng" in my history class, and there was a saying "governors would rather have seeds". Our normal sentence is "the prince will have seeds", while our classmate's sentence is "the prince will have seeds?" "So I am often teased by my classmates.

The name on the test list of the Olympic Mathematics Competition in senior high school is written as "Yu Xiang", and the teacher reads "Yu Xiang" when calling the roll. A classmate I didn't know very well blew up in the classroom, and everyone was talking about whose name it was. After calling my name, I found that I didn't arrive, and I realized that I was the "Yu Xiang". At that time, I was a little flattered and worshipped by stars.

When I go to college, I will vote for the NPC deputies. The voting card printed by the teacher is also "Yu Xiang", which I can't explain.

High-energy people are coming. After work, everyone is used to calling engineers "X workers". For example, if someone is surnamed Yang, say Yang Gong. Unfortunately, if their surname is Xiang, others will call them "xianggong" ...

So, can you imagine what it's like to be called "xianggong" by a group of old men every day? In addition, colleagues especially like to call "xianggong" when there are many people, and a group of female colleagues also like to call "xianggong" delicately, which feels like three wives and four concubines.

Therefore, this rare surname has brought endless jokes to itself, which is a very good experience.