What do you mean by native place? Birthplace or hometown?

Native place is the place where your grandparents lived, usually the place of birth. The place of origin is always the same as that of the father, and the location of the household registration can be changed due to the migration.

The permanent residence of someone's great-grandfather and paternal ancestors, also known as ancestral home or origin, refers to the long-term residence or birthplace of grandfather and paternal ancestors. The origin is the original origin.

According to the document of the Ministry of Public Security [1995]9 1, a citizen's native place should be his grandfather's place of residence (domicile) when he was born; If grandfather died, fill in the location of the household registration at the time of grandfather's death; If the grandfather has not left the permanent residence, fill in that the grandfather should leave the permanent residence; After a citizen registers his native place, if his grandfather moves his household registration, his native place will remain unchanged.

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The frequency of using native place is still very high, but young people, in particular, pay little attention to it. They generally mistakenly believe that their native place is their place of residence or birthplace. According to the tradition of China for thousands of years, native place is an expression of ancestral home.

Since modern times and since the reform and opening up, there have been a large number of floating population and population migration in China. A large number of people don't know their native place, or forget their native place, so they just take their parents' domicile as their native place, which is very wrong.

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Baidu encyclopedia-native place