What is the best way to fill in the place of origin?

When filling in the place of origin, you only need to go to the county (city) specifically, and you don't need to refine the province/autonomous region/municipality directly under the central government+district/county. Provinces/autonomous regions/municipalities directly under the Central Government/Hong Kong Special Administrative Region/Macao Special Administrative Region/+counties/county-level cities/counties/districts+towns/streets+villages/neighborhood committees. The names of prefecture-level divisions (prefecture-level cities) are not written in the middle of provincial and county-level and town-level administrative divisions. Compare the current administrative divisions with the places where ancestors lived for a long time.

Distribution areas of some ethnic minorities: autonomous region/province/municipality directly under the central government+autonomous county/county/county-level city+ethnic townships/townships/towns.

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: Inner Mongolia+Banner/Autonomous Banner (county level)/county/municipal district/county-level city/+ethnic townships/townships/towns.

For example, Li Si's previous household registration was in Sichuan, his birthplace was in Hubei, and his great-grandparents and above were in Hunan. Now his household registration has moved from Sichuan to Beijing, and his birthplace is precisely Hunan.

Precautions:

The domicile is not necessarily the person's ancestral home or native place, especially in the economically developed areas and some new places that started construction after the founding of New China and developed rapidly in modern times.

A large number of people are not registered in their native places. Generally speaking, these people moved to new places after China's reform and opening up or in the era of planned economy according to the distribution of countries at that time or in modern times. According to the tradition of China for thousands of years, native place is an expression of ancestral home, which is the difference between household registration and native place.

Generally speaking, the place of origin is paternal, and some are maternal; In terms of ancestral home, ancestral home refers to the place where ancestors lived for a long time, divided by region.