Many of the surname groups that produced emperors in ancient China have developed into large surnames with a large population today. The existence of emperors in the family is also an important reason for the prosperity of these surname groups, but now in the top seven surnames in Our country, there is a special existence of an emperor who has not established a dynasty and has produced the Eight Classics.
This surname is the surname of Wang. There are too many people with the surname Wang, and if everyone grows up from small to large, if there are few surnames with the surname Wang around, they must wonder if you are Chinese. In China, the surname Wang had a population of 94.68 million in 2014, accounting for 7.1% of the country's population, and the famous terrier "Lao Wang next door" is also inseparable from the large population of the Wang surname.
The origin of the Wang surname is very interesting, according to legend, Ji Jin in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was the ancestor of the Wang surname. Isn't Ji Jin surnamed Ji, and how could he become the ancestor of the Wang surname? It has a lot to do with his experience. At that time, Ji Jin was the prince of king Zhou Ling, he was born intelligent, gentle and erudite, good at musical instruments, and the music he blew out sounded as beautiful as the phoenix singing.
Although Ji Jin himself was outstanding, his father, King Zhou Ling, was faint. At that time, heavy rain fell from the sky, and the valley water and Luoshui all rose, causing a great flood and endangering the palace. King Zhou Ling adopted the method of blocking the river to control the river, and Ji Jin strongly opposed it, pointing out that it was not feasible to use the blockage method to manage it, and it should be dredged.
Ji Jin angered King Ling of Zhou for this, and the crown prince was deposed and turned into a commoner. His descendants changed their surname to "Wang" because they were descendants of the royal family, and the wang surname came from this. The surname Wang seems to have inherited the aristocratic blood of the ancestors, although no unified dynasty has been established, in history, the nobility is endless, of which the Langya Wang clan is a famous noble family in ancient China.
The Tang Dynasty poet has a sentence "In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people", which refers to the two most prominent high-gate family families during the two Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Langya Wang clan and the Chen Junxi clan. The Wang family produced many celebrities such as Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Wang Xiong, Wang Dao, Wang Xi, Wang Hun, etc., who were prominent for generations, and most of the royal wives hired at that time were selected from the Wang family.
And many famous character story allusions in China's history are also related to the Wang clan, such as Wang Xiang's lying ice begging carp, Wang Xizhi's east bed fast son-in-law, Wang Dao's "I don't kill Bo Ren, Bo Ren died by me" and so on. At that time, although the entire Wang family was not a royal family, because of the blood relationship, it was more respected and envied than the royal family.
Today, although the surname Wang has no aristocratic status, it has become the largest surname in Our country, with a population of nearly 100 million, if the overseas People with the surname of Wang are added together, I am afraid that it will have already exceeded 100 million. The population surnamed Wang is more in the north of China, and the south is relatively small, but the small partners in the south, do you feel that there are fewer people surnamed Wang? Probably not.
Chinese the first surname of nearly 100 million, not the emperor exclusively out of the nobility, are you this surname?