Qin Shi Huang was the greatest emperor in ancient China, and his achievements are well known to everyone, not only completed the great unification of China, but he was also the first monarch in China to call himself "Emperor". From 230 BC to 221 BC, he destroyed six other countries and completed the first great unification in the history of our country.
Unfortunately, Qin Shi Huang died before he was 50 years old, and then his second son Hu Hai succeeded to the throne. However, not long after, in 207 BC, he was forced to commit suicide, and the Qin Dynasty fell. Many people are curious that after the death of Qin Shi Huang, his second son Hu Hai killed all his brothers when he succeeded to the throne.
Like Hu Hai not only ordered Gongzi Fusu to commit suicide, but also forced several of his other brothers to hang themselves, and 6 descendants of Qin Shi Huang were directly killed in Du County, not only that, Hu Hai also killed 12 of his own brothers in the capital Xianyang, so did Qin Shi Huang really have any descendants left behind?
In fact, there are, like Gongzi Gao's descendants, who escaped after Hu Hai succeeded to the throne, because Gongzi Gao at that time chose to sacrifice himself, and he himself asked Qin II to go to Qin Shi Huang to accompany the funeral, and it was because of this that Hu Hai spared his people.
Later, after the Qin Dynasty ruled by Hu Hai was replaced by the Western Han Dynasty established by Liu Bang in 202 BC, Gongzi Gao's heirs disappeared. However, after expert research, it was found that in fact, in order to save his own life, the descendants of Gongzigao were likely to change their surname to gao or surname Zhao.
In the beginning, Qin Shi Huang's surname was actually from the same ethnic group as the Zhao surname, so in later studies, experts speculated that some of the Zhao surnames who now live in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Vietnam are likely to be his descendants.
In addition to these two surnames, the descendants of Qin Shi Huang may also be people with the surname qin, because in ancient times, everyone liked to use the feudal state as their surname, so among the descendants of Qin Shi Huang, it is also a very normal thing that there are people with the surname Qin.
Most of the current Qin family is distributed in Guangxi, Anhui and other places, and the distribution of qin is very extensive, especially since the Beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the distribution of this surname has become more and more extensive. Finally, the descendants of Qin Shi Huang also had a surname, which was Feng.
In the beginning, the Feng surname originated from the surname Ofe, but this surname is relatively rare, so if the descendants of Qin Shi Huang were to change to these two surnames, everyone might not be able to distinguish them, so relatively speaking, it may be safer to change to these two surnames.
And these two surnames of people are originally very few, if you meet, then it is likely to be the descendants of Qin Shi Huang, and according to the records in the Feng clan genealogy, the original surname of Ying, just to be able to escape the disaster, so the Qin character was removed and changed to the Feng character, which is obviously also to avoid disasters.
It is impossible to know what the surname of Qin Shi Huang's descendants is now, and all our speculations are only known through historical inference, and it is possible that his descendants have long disappeared in the historical evolution and social turmoil of more than two thousand years.