"Zhao Qiansun Li, Zhou Wu Zheng Wang." Feng Chen Chuwei, Jiang Shen Han Yang..." "Hundred Family Names" contains more than 500 surnames. A surname is the basis of a person's existence. Which surname are you? To whom do they belong? Whether we are the descendants of Yan Huang or the descendants of Nuwa and Xuan you.
Among the descendants of Yanhuang, of course, refers to the descendants of Emperor Yan and the Yellow Emperor. Emperor Yan was the leader of the Jiang tribe in ancient China, called shennong. The surname "Jiang" is a very important surname among the descendants of Emperor Yan.
The surname "Jiang" ranks second among the eight surnames in ancient times, and is one of the oldest surnames in China, because Emperor Yan only gave the surname "Jiang" to his direct descendants at that time, so only some people used the surname of Jiang in ancient times, and it was not until the Spring and Autumn Period that the surname of Jiang was carried forward by Jiang Ziya. Emperor Yan's descendants were the Lieshan clan, the Gonggong clan, and the Siyue clan. They have more than a hundred surnames, the most common of which are: Qi, Lü, Shen, Xu, Jiang, Feng, Ding, Cui, Gao, Zhang, He, Lu, Xie and so on.
The Yellow Emperor was the leader of the Ancient Tribal Alliance and the head of the Five Emperors. The Yellow Emperor's surname was Ji (姬), and his name was Xuanyuan (轩辕氏). It is known as the "first ancestor of humanity". The Yellow Emperor was the founder of China. The Yellow Emperor unified the world, created the first great integration in the history of the Chinese nation, established a unified empire for the first time in Chinese history, and laid the basic territory of China.
Contemporaneous with Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang were also the tribes headed by Yi Xuan. Later, the tribal alliance of Emperor Yan and the Yellow Emperor defeated Xuan You. The two tribes gradually merged, and the Yellow Emperor became the leader of the alliance of the two tribes. Since then, the surrounding tribes have gradually merged into the Yanhuang tribe, forming a powerful nation. Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang were revered as the ancestors of the Chinese nation, and Chinese therefore called themselves "descendants of Yan Huang".
The Yellow Emperor had a total of 25 sons in his lifetime, and he gave 14 of them surnames, a total of 12 surnames, which were Ji, You, Qi, Ji, Teng, Ying, Ren, Xun, 僖, 姞, 儇, and Yi. If you are one of these surnames, then you are a direct descendant of the Yellow Emperor.
Nuwa is the goddess of creation in ancient Chinese mythology, also known as Emperor Huan and Nüyin. Nüwa first appeared in the "Great Wilderness West Classic" of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and the most widely circulated in folklore is the mythical story of Nüwa "saving soil to create people" and "refining stones to repair the heavens". In ancient times, surnames were the oldest scripts, and which clan had a surname had the most powerful right to speak.
In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it is recorded that the brothers and sisters of Fuxi and Nüwa, because the era in which they lived was a matriarchal society, so Fuxi and Nüwa both followed their mother's surname. In the matriarchal society, women have a very high status, and Nuwa is elected as the heir of the tribe and becomes the leader of the Nuwa clan.
After that, in order to reproduce, Nuwa and Fuxi gave birth to a total of 12 brothers and sisters. And their descendants naturally take "wind" as a surname, which is one of the oldest surnames in our country.
And derived several surnames, these surnames are also branches of the "wind" surname, according to the "surname Kaoli" recorded that "wind, ren, ba, volt, mi (fu), su, su, su and other 7 surnames of the person is the "Shan Hai Jing" recorded in the ancient times, the direct descendant of Nüwa.
So if you are one of these surnames, then you may be a descendant of Nuwa.
Let's talk about the possible surnames of the descendants of Xuan You. Xuan You is the chief of the Jiuli tribe in ancient times, the god of war in Chinese mythology. Originally a subordinate of Emperor Yan, after Emperor Yan was defeated by the Yellow Emperor, Xuan You led eighty-one brothers to raise an army to fight the Yellow Emperor and fought fiercely at Zhuolu. This is one of the earliest and most famous wars in history.
The confrontation between the two armies can be described as inseparable from victory and defeat. The Yellow Emperor cast a spell and summoned the goddess Marmot to help. After defeating the wind god rain god invited by Xuan you, he took the opportunity to counterattack, and Xuan You's tribe was defeated.
After the defeat of Xuanyu in the Battle of the Deer, his descendants were incorporated into the Yanhuang tribe. If someone is one of the four surnames of "Zou", "Tu", "Li" and "蚩", it is likely to be a descendant of Xuan You.