Li He
Some individuals were discriminated against because of their names, due to a naming taboo. For example, because the Tang dynasty poet Li He's father's name sounded like the "jin", in "jinshi", he was discouraged from taking the tests (Hinton, 286). The claim was that if Li He was called a "jinshi", it would be against the rule of etiquette that a son not be called by his father's name.