In many film and television dramas, lines such as "the big husband does not change his name, he does not change his surname" will be used to render a very tough part of this character's personality, and when people hear it, they will also instantly feel this person's respect for his ancestors and family, of course, and his extremely strong recognition of himself, why is this? This is closely related to the development of Chinese surname culture.
Today's Chinese will naturally have their own surnames when they are just born, so people are quite accustomed to the matter of surnames, but in fact, our country of Japan, before the "Meiji Restoration" in the 1860s, basically did not have a surname, and Chinese had no surname before the ancient period of at least 5,000 years.
Chinese has a surname, starting from Fuxi, one of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, Fuxi is the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation, he united and unified the various tribes of China, sacrificed heaven and earth on Mount Tai, opened the precedent of sealing Zen, and combined the characteristics of various animals to create the Toten Dragon of the Chinese nation, and formulated the marriage system of people, stipulating that close relatives are not allowed to marry.
In order to be able to effectively promote the rule that "close relatives are not allowed to marry", and began to formulate people's surname rules, so that people to raise animals or plants, residences, official positions, as their own family surnames, so the Chinese surname origin, although it has gone through thousands of years of development, but has never been endless, but also never out of the framework formulated by Fuxi, unlike Japan originally did not have a surname, suddenly after a year there are more than 100,000 surnames.
Fuxi's surname is feng, so the wind surname is the earliest "noble surname" in Chinese history, and later when the Chinese civilization developed to the time of the Second Emperor of Yanhuang, the eight surnames of "Ji, Yao, Concubine, Concubine, Jiang, 嬴, 姞, 妘" were born, known as the eight maternal surnames of China, and since then most of the surnames have developed from this, and have undergone many evolutions in the long years, and now there are tens of thousands of surnames.
And these surnames, no matter how they have evolved, are always in the rules for the formulation of the surname formulated by Fuxi, either with the fief as the surname, or with the official position as the surname, or with the animals and plants that are farmed as the surname, so whether your ancestors are rich nobles or ordinary people, basically see your surname can know.
Ancient aristocratic surnames are divided into two kinds, one is the one that once created a unified dynasty, such as Liu surname, Li surname, Zhao surname, Yang surname, Zhu surname, etc., the other is a rich nobleman, these families have been extremely prosperous for a long time, even longer than the existence of the dynasty, such as langya wang clan, Langya Zhuge clan, Chen Junxie clan, Qinghe Cui clan, Boling Cui clan, Fanyang Lu clan. 、
How strong are these aristocrats? At that time, there was an emperor of the Tang Dynasty who wanted to marry a woman of the Boling Cui clan, but he was refused, because "there is a difference in the door", and the emperor said very angrily: "My family's hundred-year-old heavenly son is not yet the third hundred-year-old door- "But it is also really helpless, it can be seen that these rich nobles were really powerful in ancient times."
However, after the Wu Zetian period, some of the so-called nobles have basically disappeared, everyone has become ordinary people, in fact, the surname that can be passed down to today, the ancestors were basically the nobles and even the relatives of the emperor, some netizens said "my surname is Wang", of course, there are also netizens who say that their surname is Li, but in fact, it is not important, as long as they work hard in life, they may not be able to make the family become famous because of themselves.