China's surname culture with the history of China has continued for four or five thousand years, in the traditional concept of Chinese, surname is very important, even if it is developed to the present, if a person does not follow the father's surname, nor with the mother's surname, then that person will certainly appear more prominent.
The surname is a symbol of a person, but also a symbol of a family, having the same ancestor can have the same surname, the origin of the surname can be traced back to the era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the name or first name of the tribal leader is the origin of the surname. Why do you have a surname? Quite simply, because human beings want to reproduce, behind the surname is blood, with the development of the times, people of the same blood cannot intermarry.
"Positive surname, don't marry", the biggest role of surname is to distinguish between different clans, and the production of surnames is a big step in the history of human civilization. Surnames in general will not be easily changed, changing surnames is very important for a family, a family name will be passed on from generation to generation at the beginning of the birth.
Therefore, the surname has stability, but in ancient times, there were also unexpected situations, and people in a family may change their surname because they are knighted, or get one or more fiefs, then the descendants of their family can no longer use the previous surname.
There are two main forms of surnames in China, one is a single surname, and the other is a compound surname. Some people have statistics that there are currently about 5600 surnames of all sizes in China, and from the statistical results, china is indeed very rich, and the surname culture is also very prosperous. The origin of these surnames is complex, and there are many sources, including surnames as surnames, countries as surnames, pavilions as surnames, localities as surnames, ancestors as surnames, and official positions as surnames.
China's top eight surnames are Li, Wang, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Zhao, Huang, first of all, let's talk about the "Li" surname, Li can be said to be the largest surname in China, why is it said to be the first surname? Among them, the surname Li accounts for 7.94% of the Han nationality, close to 8%, and there are about 90 million people with the surname Li, and it is conceivable that the number of people surnamed Li is unimaginable.
There are many different theories about the origin of the Li surname, such as totem, Ji surname, etc., the Li surname has established a political power in ancient times, and its influence is naturally large. On the map, most of the people surnamed Li are concentrated in the northern region, and the southern region is less distributed than the north.
The second largest surname is Wang, the Surname of Wang is also a big surname, the origin of the surname of Wang is more complicated than the surname of Chen, there are eight or nine different theories, the population of the Surname of Wang has exceeded 100 million in modern times, it is the largest surname in China, and the celebrity rate of the Surname of Wang is also very high.
The Wang family loves to be an empress, a total of 36 empresses, the Wang surname of the writer is also very much, ranking first, Wang Xizhi's family is very famous, the number of artists, medical scientists, etc. of the Wang family is also ranked first, it can be seen that the Wang family is really a celebrity.
The third largest surname Zhang, the source of the Zhang surname is relatively small, but the Zhang surname is a multi-ethnic surname, China's Shandong Zhang surname is the most people, ranking first, Zhang surname is the third largest surname in China.
The surname Liu is also relatively famous, starting from Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, the surname of Liu is famous all over the world, and it, like the surname Of Li, has established a prosperous regime. Liu surname is the fourth largest surname in China, Liu surname is also more common in the northern region, the Central Plains region distributed Liu surname descendants.
Chen surname is also a multi-ethnic surname, Chen surname in Taiwan and Guangdong distribution of the largest number of people, Chen surname has also produced many celebrities, such as we are familiar with the Tang Dynasty "Three Tibetan Masters", Xuanzang is the surname Chen. In modern society, Chen Duxiu, who has played a role in promoting China's modern history, is also surnamed Chen.
Next is the Yang surname, the Yang surname has also established a political regime in ancient times, the Yang surname is the national surname of the Wu Kingdom and the Sui Dynasty, the Yang surname is different from other surnames, it is distributed in many countries abroad, such as Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Philippines, Australia, etc. Have the distribution of the Yang family.
People surnamed Zhao are mainly distributed in the Shandong and Huai River valleys, which are widely distributed, and the Zhao family has also established its own political power- Song, and it is no accident that the Zhao surname as a national surname has become the big surname in China.
The last famous surname is the Huang surname, the Huang surname also established its own country, but because it was later destroyed by the Chu State, its influence is not as large as Li, Zhao, etc., but the number of Huang surnames is also quite large, there are more than 30 million people, and the Huang surname is still relatively famous.