In the noun form, "dog" means dog, and "keeping" means keeping a dog, so it means keeping a dog. In ancient Japan, it was customary to address each other by occupation. People who saw a dog were called "keeping a dog".
Morning News Japan belongs to one of the small and medium-sized countries in terms of land area and population, but its surname is one of the countries with the largest number in the world. Now there are as many surnames as 1 10000, and there is a strange phenomenon that the same surname is different. This is because the history of Japanese surnames is too short-it is only one hundred years since the promulgation of the Household Registration Law in 1898.
In ancient Japan, there were no names from the emperor to the "untouchable". 1868 after the Meiji Restoration, the government found it too difficult to manage people without surnames, so it abolished the hierarchical system and gave people the right to "call their surnames by their first names". However, people are used to generations without surnames, so there are few respondents. It was not until the eighth year of Meiji (1875) that the government strictly ordered that "all citizens must take their surnames", and people panicked and rushed to "take their surnames": those who lived outside the village were named "Murano" and those who lived in the valley were named "Yamaguchi". Scholarly family, ambitious, hence the names "Jingxiang", "Ji Mei" and "Changjiu". Those who worship the ancient and martial arts take the name of the ancient warrior as their surname; Engaged in various professional arts and crafts, with professional arts and crafts as the surname; Those who don't know the meaning of "addressing surnames" will listen to the words and deeds of public officials, resulting in strange surnames such as "ghost head", "dog", "Pang Hu" and "husband". At this time, the father and son were scattered all over the country, and they could not communicate with each other in a hurry, so they took their surnames; And some people who are not related by blood mistakenly think that they are "predestined friends" and take the same surname.