In the pre-Qin period, having a surname and a surname was a very noble symbol.
The surname Yin originates from Boyi during the reign of Dayu Zhishui, and Boyi was a talented person with very prominent merits. During Yu Shun's reign, Bo Yi trained birds and beasts and trained beasts into poultry, which was a great credit. Therefore, Yu Shun not only married the beautiful women of his own clan to him, but also gave him the surname of Yin. Later, Dayu ruled the water, and Bo Yi also made a lot of merit.
There is another kind of talking surname derived from Gao Tao, which is the surname of Yu Shun, and Boyi is his descendant. Due to my age, there is no very clear statement. However, it is very likely that the surname Yin originated from Gao Tao and Boyi, and perhaps the two may not have a direct relationship. However, both were important tribal leaders among the descendants of Shao hao of the Dongyi clique.
Later, Dayu Li Boyi became the heir, but Dayu's son Qi was powerful, and eventually Xia Qi seized power, opened the Xia Dynasty, and opened the family world.
Therefore, the surname Yimei (Bo Yi's descendant) was suppressed throughout the Xia Dynasty, until the last year of the Xia Dynasty, when Shang Tang rebelled against Xia Jie, and Yi Yimai fully supported Yin Shang. After Shang Tang established the Shang Dynasty, the status and strength of boyi yiyi improved linearly.
Then, when the Shang Dynasty was out of the way, King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou rebelled against Yin Shang and established the Zhou Dynasty, and Boyi yiyi once again fell to the bottom. The lords of the family with the surname of Yin were all martyred for Yin Shang. However, Ji Sheng, the younger son of Shu Lian, submitted to the Zhou Dynasty very early, so the life of the branch of the Surname of Ying was not difficult in the Zhou Dynasty. And the descendants of the evil ones (the family of the surname Officia) have a bad life.
Until the reign of King Mu of Zhou, Ji Sheng's descendant Father (the fifteenth grandson of Bo Yi) drove to the west, the savior of thousands of miles, assisted King Mu of Zhou in quelling the rebellion, and made great achievements. The founding father was enfeoffed with Zhao Cheng, and since then the descendants of the founding father have been the Zhao clan with the surname Zhao.
During the Zhou Dynasty, surnames were distinguished by blood, and clans were distinguished from nobles, and only those with high status deserved to have clans.
It is a very glorious thing for the father to get the clan, so the descendants of the evil lai (the other branch of the winning surname) also use the Zhao clan.
By the time of King Xiao of Zhou, the descendants of the evil lai who lived in the western Inuyasha region had a non-son. Fei Zi was good at raising horses, and after King Xiao of Zhou knew about it, he asked Fei Zi to raise horses specifically for the Zhou Dynasty.
The war horses of the Zhou Dynasty were fattened and strong under the administration of Feizi, and their numbers increased. Therefore, King Xiao of Zhou wanted to make up feizi and let him inherit the family of his father Da Luo. The Da Luo family is very large, but Fei Zi is not Da Luo's concubine, and there is no hope of inheriting the Da Luo clan.
Da Luo's concubine Cheng was not satisfied, so Cheng's grandfather Shen Hou found King Xiao of Zhou and said, "If you still let Win Cheng be the heir of the Da Luo family, I Shen Guo can settle the matter of Xi Rong." If you don't let Cheng become the heir, I Shenguo will no longer negotiate with Xi Rong, and will no longer take care of the relationship between Xi Rong and the Zhou Dynasty. ”
At that time, Xirong was a major hidden danger of the Zhou Dynasty, and the Shen state had a certain strength and good diplomacy with the various departments of Xirong. So King Xiao of Zhou endured, and did not make Feizi the heir of the Da Luo family. However, King Xiao of Zhou did not treat Fei Zi badly, it may be that King Xiao of Zhou was not born as a concubine and understood the pain of being a concubine.
The monarchs of Western Zhou strictly enforced the primogeniture system, and King Xiao of Zhou was not the eldest son. Originally, King Xiao of Zhou's nephew Ji Xie was supposed to take the throne, but he was cowardly and incompetent, and King Xiao of Zhou had the opportunity to become the King of Zhou. Therefore, King Xiao of Zhou was very disgusted with the division of concubines, but after the death of King Xiao of Zhou, the princes supported Ji Xie as the King of Zhou, and was the King of Zhou Yi.
The Zhou Dynasty was very afraid of chaos, and the succession to the throne was prone to change, so the Zhou Dynasty strictly implemented the inheritance system of the eldest son. Because the Zhou Dynasty was in turmoil, not only the barbarians around the Zhou Dynasty would rebel, but the princes of the Central Plains would also take advantage of the opportunity to rebel.
Speaking of Feizi, although King Xiao of Zhou did not appoint him as the heir of the Da Luo family. But King Xiao of Zhou said to the outside world: "In the past, Boyi domesticated livestock for Yu Shun and got land and surname, and now his descendants raise horses for me, and I will also seal a piece of land for his descendants." ”
As a result, King Xiao of Zhou enfeoffed Fei Zi to Qin, called Qin Ying, and became a vassal of the Zhou Dynasty. Although Qin's land was less than fifty miles long, Qin Feizi had his own acre and three points of land.
Moreover, King Xiao of Zhou not only gave Fei Zi a fief, but also ordered Fei Zi to inherit the sacrifice of the Surname of Ying, which is equivalent to saying that the Fei Zi lineage is authentic, and the Yin Cheng who inherits the Luo family will no longer be nominally authentic.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the fiefdoms of dukes and marquises stretched for hundreds of miles, the fiefs of counts were seventy miles, and the viscounts and barons were fifty miles. Less than fifty miles in length is a vassal, not an independent regime, and needs to be subordinate to the Zhou Dynasty or other princes. And there is no diplomatic power, no hierarchy.
Even the State of Chu had a viscount in the Zhou Dynasty, which was enough to see how low the starting point of the State of Qin was.