Recently, the TV series "Great Qin Fu" has attracted many people's attention, among which the wonderful interpretation of Qin Shi Huang has allowed us to see an emperor who is heroic, broken, and thorny, and finally established the Great Qin Dynasty. Some people even say that "Qin Shi Huang finally unified the Six Kingdoms" Don't tell your friends around you, because this is a "spoiler".
It's a joke.
However, this also reveals a fact that must be admired from the side:
With his extraordinary ideas and boldness, Qin Shi Huang really let Great Qin annex the Six Kingdoms and unify the Central Plains.
And with the wonderful appearance of Qin Shi Huang in the TV series, we are also familiar with the name of this emperor, he is called Yin Zheng.
If you are interested in the surnames of people in China's history, it is not difficult to find that the surnames before the Han Dynasty in China are more complicated, for example: Jiang Ziya is also called Lü Shang. Many people can't tell what his name is. In fact, Jiang Ziya's surname is Jiang, the clan is Lü, and the single name is a Shangzi, the word Ziya. From this, it can be seen that Jiang Ziya is actually a combination of his surname and character, while Lü Shang is a combination of his surname and name.
In fact, the name of Yingzheng is also very strange, he was initially called Gongzizheng, later called Yingzheng, Yingzheng is his surname, Zhao is his surname, so it is called "Ying surname Zhao". Note that this win is not a "win". The middle of the win-lose is "Bei", and the "Win" of Yingzheng is a "female" inside. In fact, the surname is one of the earliest eight surnames in ancient times, and the other seven surnames are: Jiang, Ji, Yao, Yao, 妘, 妊, 妊, 妫. At the beginning, Emperor Shun's subordinates had a man named Boyi, who was good at raising horses and training birds, and his skills were superb, so Emperor Shun gave him the surname "Yin".
And this Bo Yi's grandmother is actually the granddaughter of Zhuān (xū), who is Zhuān? He was the grandson of the Ancient Yellow Emperor. Therefore, some scholars have said that the surname Boyi is very close to the ancient Yellow Emperor according to the blood relationship. If you think that the surname is very special, then it is right, you see who his ancestor is, you understand.
So, what is the Zhao clan in the Zhao clan? In fact, this means to represent a clan. In the pre-Qin period, the surname represented a blood ethnic group, and because there were too many people with the same surname, they dispersed and formed some tribes or small blood groups, which were distinguished by clan. Therefore, there are fourteen clans with the surname of Ying, and the Zhao clan is only one of them. That is to say, Qin Shi Huang was a descendant of the surname Yin, and his ancestors came from a Zhao clan.
Of course, there are also some nobles who will use identity instead of their surnames. For example, Qin Shi Huang was known as Qin Wangzheng before the unification of the Six Kingdoms, and his sons were called Gongzi Fusu and Gongzi Huhai, which is why many people now do not know Qin Shi Huang's surname of Yin.
Historically, Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms and became a true emperor, an out-and-out noble royal family. But why are there so few people with the surname Ying now, and we don't even know a person with the surname "Ying". According to statistics: At present, there are less than 10,000 people with the surname Yin in China, and the gap with other surnames is very obvious. So, why is that?
In 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang officially declared himself emperor and established Great Qin. In 210 BC, after the death of Qin Shi Huang, Zhao Gao supported Hu Hai to ascend to the throne, and the Qin Dynasty immediately entered a period of rapid decline. Subsequently, in order to consolidate his position, Zhao Gao, while confusing Hu Hai of Qin II, instigated Hu Hai to kill the other children of Qin Shi Huang, which first led to the decline of Qin Shi Huang's lineage.
In the late Qin Dynasty, the situation in the Qin Dynasty was very chaotic, and there were troops everywhere against Qin, and everyone in the world took the nobles of the Qin Dynasty as the target of hatred, although Qin Shi Huang was gone, but the surname of Ying became the target of everyone. In order to avoid disasters, some clansmen with the surname of Ying chose to change their names and surnames. This also directly led to the rapid disappearance of the surname in history, and even if there are descendants left, they have begun to hide their names.
"Tang Yun": After Qin Zi Was killed, the child and baby were destroyed, and Zhi Shu thought that it was Qin.
The history books record that after Hu Hai, the sons and babies succeeded to the throne as the King of Qin, and after the children were destroyed, their clans were changed to the Shumin Qin clan. Therefore, the Qin surname has become one of the bloodline continuations of the Yin surname. Now there are many people with the surname "Qin", perhaps even the descendants of Qin Shi Huang.
In addition, during the Qin and Han dynasties, the soldiers were in chaos, and the nobles of the Qin State remembered their old feelings, and also changed the surname of Yin to a similar surname, such as "Silver", "Yin" and so on. Some descendants with the surname of Ying had a stronger desire to survive, and simply changed the court and took some completely different surnames to avoid the rebel army everywhere.
And the people who are still surnamed "Yin" are likely to be descendants of the Surname of Ying who lived in a remote area during the Qin and Han Rebellion. They have lived in the mountains for a long time, know nothing about the outside world, do not know how to hastily change their surnames, nor do they know how to change dynasties, and after a long period of continuation, they can be retained.
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