Everyone inherits the family name from birth, which is both our innate code name and a symbol of blood relations, do you understand this symbol that follows our own life? What is its original meaning, and where is its main origin? How is it distributed today?
The origin of surnames in our country has a long history. The earliest surname origins can be traced back to the period of the matrilineal clan system in primitive human society. Because it is a matriarchal society, almost all people know only their mothers, not their fathers. Therefore, at that time, the surnames were all next to the female character or the female character. A surname is a specific symbol that distinguishes a clan, such as the name of a tribe or the name of a tribal leader.
Ancient Eight surnames
Ginger, Ji, Concubine, Concubine, Win, Concubine, Yao, Concubine
There are many Surnames in China, because surnames not only allow us to inherit the bloodline, but also produce an extremely rich surname culture. The earliest surnames were born in matriarchal societies, so the surnames at that time all carried the word "female" in them. Let's see if the eight oldest surnames in China have your home!
imperial concubine
According to ancient books such as the Shuowen, the Yellow Emperor was born in Jishui, so his surname was Ji. In the "List of Fengshen Gods", the King Wu of Zhou, who founded the Zhou Dynasty for eight hundred years, is Ji Fa, surnamed Ji, and is related to the Yellow Emperor. After the Zhou Dynasty, the descendants of the Ji family all took the surname of Guo. By the time of Emperor Tang of the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid the name of Emperor Li Longji ("Ji" is homophonous with "Ji"), most people changed their surname to Zhou in order to commemorate the glory of the old ancestors, and even if some people later restored the surname of Ji, it was impossible to avoid the fact that the number of people with the surname Ji was getting smaller and smaller. It should be noted here that most of the Zhou and Ji surnames are of the same ancestor.
ginger
The "Sayings" says: "Shennong lives in Jiang Shui, because he thinks it is a clan." The legendary Yan Emperor, the Shennong clan, is said to be one of the most ancient "Three Emperors" in Chinese history. Because Emperor Yan was born in Jiangshui (present-day Qishan County, Shaanxi), he took Jiang as his clan. Therefore, the birthplace of Emperor Yan is also the birthplace of the Jiang clan. The surname Jiang originated from Emperor Yan. The surname Jiang has been a member of the royal family since ancient times, whether it is Empress Jiang, who was tragically gouged out of her eyes in the list of gods, or The Prince of Jiang, who also made a big splash in the list of gods, Lü Shang is a descendant of the Shennong clan. Jiang Shang was enfeoffed by Lü for assisting the Zhou Dynasty in gaining the world, so he changed his surname from the fief to Lü Shang.
During the Warring States period, the State of Qi surnamed Jiang was destroyed by Tian He, and Lü Shang's descendants were scattered everywhere, with the surname Lü and those with the surname Jiang, so the Lü surname and the Jiang surname were mostly of the same ancestry, and they were descendants of the Shennong clan's old ancestor Yan Emperor.
Gui
The surname is one of the original surnames in the ancient period, and the ancestor of the surname is Emperor Shun. When Shun was still a commoner, there was a hope of virtue, and the tribal leader Yao admired his talents very much, so he married his two daughters, Empress Dowager E and Nuying, and let him live on the edge of the concubine's water, and began to have the surname of concubine. The Water originated in Lishan, south of present-day Yongji City, Shanxi Province, and flowed westward into the Yellow River.
Yikes
The Tongzhi Clan Sketch records: "Female Zhi obtains the moon essence in the water, and the divine pearl is like a coix, and the love is swallowed, and Xia Yu is born." "Because Dayu was born to his mother who devoured the divine pearl coix, he had to be given the surname Ji.
Dayu has made outstanding achievements in history, especially in water control. His son Qi established the first "family world" dynasty in China, so his descendants were also prosperous.
According to statistics, there are more than 30 surnames derived from the surname Xia, Lou, Deng, Zeng, Bao, Tan, Ji, Guan, Dou, Ouyang and so on.
win
The Yellow Emperor lived in Xuanyuan Mountain and married the daughter of Xilingguo, which was Changzu. Changzu was the concubine of the Yellow Emperor and had two sons, and their descendants all had the title of emperor: one was called Xuanhuo, that is, Qingyang, and Qingyang was made a prince and descended to Jiangshui; the other, changyi, was also named a prince and descended to Ruoshui. Changyi married a daughter of the Shushan clan, named Chang Shu, and gave birth to Gao Yang, who had the virtue of a saint. After the Death of the Yellow Emperor, he was buried at Qiaoshan, and his grandson, Gao Yang, the son of Changyi, took the throne, which was Emperor Huan.
Qin's ancestor was the granddaughter of Emperor Huan, named Nun Nun. When the nun was weaving cloth, a swallow dropped an egg, and the nun swallowed it and gave birth to a son named Daye. Daye married the daughter of the Shaodian clan, named Nuhua. The female Huasheng paid a large fee to assist Xia Yu in the treatment of water and soil. After the success of the treatment of water, Emperor Shun, in recognition of Yu's merits, gave him a piece of black jade gui. Yu accepted the reward and said, "Controlling water is not something I can do alone, but also because I have a lot of money to be an assistant." Emperor Shun said, "Ah, Dafei, you helped Yu Zhishui succeed, and I gave you a pair of black flag streamers." Your descendants will prosper. So he married a beautiful woman surnamed Yao to him. He accepted the reward and domesticated the beasts for Emperor Shun, most of whom were tamed. This person is Yì (益). Emperor Shun gave him the surname Yin.
concubine
The surname "姞" is one of the oldest surnames in China. According to the "Genealogy Table of the Tang Dynasty and Zai Chancellor", the Southern Yan State was a surname of Jiao, and its place was Yan County (in the northeast of present-day Yanjin County, Henan Province), which was later changed to Ji. Legend has it that he was one of the twenty-five sons of the Yellow Emperor. After examination, it is believed that the Yellow Emperor's son with the surname of Jiao was the leader of the "Clan of the Yellow Emperor" in the "Yellow Emperor Tribal Alliance" at the beginning of the ancient "Five Emperors", and the Yellow Emperor gave him the "Surname of Jiao", and he established the ancient "Clan of the Yellow Emperor" after obtaining the surname. As the descendants of the "You family" multiplied, their descendants branched out into the surnames of "Ji, Yong, Yan, E, Mishu (密, Xu), Kan, Yan, Guang, Yang, Kong, Yin, Cai, Lu, Yun, Duan, Dun, Qiang, Zhi, and Although".
handsome
The surname Yao is from the descendant of Shun, one of the Five Emperors, and comes from the surname of Concubine. Shun belonged to a clan that lived in Yudi, so he was called Yu Shun in history. Later, Yao accepted Siyue's recommendation and decided that Shun would succeed him as the leader, and give him his two daughters as wives, so Yao's surname was also derived from the concubine surname. In the last year of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Qiang leader Yao Yizhong rose up in the chaotic world, and after calling himself Yu Shun, the He clan changed its surname to Yao. Later, when his son Yao Cang established the Later Qin regime, the Qiang surname Yao quickly multiplied, and the Yao clan grew stronger with the addition of this Yao surname from Longxi, Gansu.
Whoops
After Zhu Rong, a fire official from the yu surname and was the emperor, he could not beat others, and he crashed the sky to the one, and took the name of the feudal country.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was destroyed by the Chu State. The descendants took the state as their clan, and later Jian went to Yibian to become the Yun clan, and the other part gradually moved south, initially moving to Zhijiang (in present-day southern Hubei Province, along the Yangtze River), and then moving south to Changsha, Hunan at the end of the week. According to statistics, today's surnames of Dong, Cao, Peng, Yun, Luo and so on are all derived from the surname of Yu.
In fact, no matter what era, whether poor or rich, we Chinese always want to know where we came from, who our ancestors are, whether our ancestors have ever produced any high-ranking officials and nobles, all provinces in the country, are there still our relatives?