Chinese culture has a long history, after thousands of years of development, has given birth to countless unique cultures, of which surnames are closely related to everyone's culture, in fact, the original origin is based on the "Heavenly Way" culture, the worship of ancestors and totems, and later gradually evolved into a family and blood relationship of a sign of inheritance. When you meet people with the same name and surname, is it inevitable that you will feel closer? After all, there is a saying that "five hundred years ago it was one".
In 1949, after the founding of New China. Someone once made a statistic that there are more than 2,000 surnames north of Beijing alone, and as many as 5,000 nationwide, if you look at the number of surnames in the entire history of China. There are 11,969 surnames recorded in the "Surname Dictionary" alone.
Although more than 5,000 surnames have been handed down, the large surnames account for almost half of the total population, for example, the surnames of Li and Wang are surnames with a population of nearly 100 million, and many of them are sparsely populated surnames that many people have not even heard of.
And so many surnames have also given birth to some more "special" surnames. For example, the 2 surnames spoken of today, one serious person can't say it, and the other makes it difficult to take a name.
the last name
In the impression of many people, if the word is said separately, there is a sense of cursing. Therefore, the general "serious people" are even more unspeakable. Therefore, when this word is used in surnames, the first syllable should be pronounced, not the fourth syllable.
The earliest origin of the Cao surname, Volume IV of the Book of Sui, records that in December (the twelfth year of Daye), in December, the Poyang thief Cao Tiancheng raised an army to rebel, claiming to be the King of Yuanxing, Jianyuan Sixing, and attacking Yuzhang County. The main character mentioned here is "Cao Tiancheng" who rebelled, and in the eyes of many people of the Cao clan, Cao Tiancheng is the ancestor of the Cao clan.
But there is a theory that is older, and many historians believe that the ancestor of the Cao surname is related to Cao Cao. After the Sima family usurped power, Cao Cao's descendants changed their surnames in order to avoid being pursued, and used the second character in the name of their ancestor Cao Cao, "Cao", as a surname, and lived in seclusion.
After years of reproduction, the surname Cao became an independent surname and has been passed down. So the surname didn't have any literal meaning in the beginning, but a family relationship.
Corpse surname
We know that Chinese generally believe in ghosts and gods, especially the older generation pays special attention to "unclean" things, and the meaning represented by the word "corpse" must not be understood by everyone, so this is a relatively difficult surname to name, and even many descendants have changed it to "Shi" surname, which is used as a homophone.
The original origin of the corpse surname, according to the relevant historical records, is derived from the surname of "Ji", that is, the surname of the First Five Emperors of the Ancients, the Yellow Emperor. The "Zuo Chuan" records that during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, some of the descendants of Zhao Gong lived in the corpse village, because Zhao Gong was a duke of the Zhou royal family and was surnamed Ji, so there was a "corpse" surname from the Ji surname.
It can be said that the corpse surname is also a very tall surname, after all, it is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, and it must not be discriminated against because of the literal meaning. Not only these two surnames, many surnames have deep historical roots, and each surname is unique and precious.