Everyone only knows the name of Confucius Confucius, so what is his surname? Strictly speaking, his name is Confucius, but he is not surnamed Kong, and the word Kong counts as his surname, not his surname. In their previous era, the surname and surname were quite different and very clearly divided. Surnames are basically the same as modern times, the son follows the father's surname, the surname is very different, the change is changed, the father and son, the grandchildren may not be the same, this person wants to want the clan why, can be freely defined, not only can be the place of the official as a clan, can also be according to the father's name as their own clan, you can also take their own official title as a clan, but also be able to rank in the family as a clan. For a simple example, Zhang's father was an official in Wen County, and Zhang could take Wen as his clan, he could be called Wen, if he ranked second in the family, the second was also called Zhong in ancient times, he could also be called Zhong. However, no matter what his surname is called, his surname remains the same. Strictly speaking, he can't change his surname Zhang.
Confucius's ancestor was a famous royal nobleman during the Shang Dynasty, and the Shang King used a surname. The surname of the King of Shang is Zi, and it is conceivable that Confucius will follow the surname of Zi, so if modern people use the surname to call our literati master Confucius, is he called "Zizi", so is it more funny to call him by his name?
Since the destruction of the Shang Dynasty, his ancestors have been placed in the places of Shangqiu in present-day Henan to start over, and many years later, a powerful and impossible person was born from the sky, and his name was Kong Father Jia. This person is the sixth ancestor of Confucius, do not think about his surname Son, this person's word is Kong Father, the name is Jia, in ancient times it was to put the name after the word, and the brothers united to form a person's name This is also a habit in the Spring and Autumn Period. The name Liu Bei Liu Xuande, dating back to that time, will be called "Xuan De Bei", similar to this truth.
In his sixth ancestor, Kong Father Jia in front of his ancestors what exactly took as a clan We have no way of knowing, we know that after his sixth ancestor, his ancestors began to use the name of his sixth ancestor as a surname, the surname of "son" was thrown aside, and all the people were "Kong" after that, it is not difficult to imagine why Confucius is so named.
Nowadays, Malays do not necessarily have a surname, but with the rise of the current, they use their father's name as a surname, and his father's name is whatever his son is. And the Spring and Autumn Warring States period is more similar, the clan is not the only, prefer to take the father's name as a clan, his father is called Kong Moumou, the son will be Kong as a clan, but there is also a difference between the two of them is that since the Kong as the clan, it has not changed again.