China is the only ancient civilization that exists in the world, looking at the whole world, the Chinese nation also exists miraculously, from hundreds of millions of years of human development and evolution, only the culture of the Chinese nation has not been interrupted.
In the history of development in these five thousand years, the ancestors have left us many valuable wealth, these things include the idea of dealing with the world and helping the world, and also leaving us with a lot of customs and humanistic history, such as surnames.
According to research, the ancient Chinese surname comes from totem worship, which is a clan emblem or symbol. Primitive totem worship is the root of ancient Chinese surnames, and a large number of documents support this view.
The German Orientalist Max Müller said in "Dedicated to Mythology":
After the surname is produced, it is passed down from generation to generation, generally does not change, it is relatively stable, and the clan changes with the change of the title and official position, so there will be several clans or two generations of different clans of the father and son.
In the literature of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was found that there were 411 original surnames, and 568 were added later, and these statistics included single surnames and compound surnames.
However, in the Dictionary of Chinese Surnames, it is shown that:
Of these, one is the most "weird," and no matter how a man or a woman takes a name, it gives a sense of dread.
Therefore, changing the surname is also called the form of "difficult name", but this surname has a glorious history, and the clan is proud of it, yes, it is - "dead" surname.
Origin of the surname "dead":
The death of the dead surname is pronounced as sì, not sǐ, according to relevant expert research, "dead surname" is the second least surname in China (the first surname is the "difficult" surname). Today, there are more than a thousand people with this surname, ranking 3280th in the "Hundred Family Names".
The "dead surname" originates from the Xianbei tribe, which comes from the Xianbei Tuoba clan during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and belongs to the Sinicization of the tribal name. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties periods, there were four clan tribes in the Northern Xianbei Tuoba Department, Name, Self, Independence, and Arm.
Among them, the tribe takes the tribal name as the surname, and the later Sinicization is divided into clan, zishi, dushi, and 膊氏, and has been passed down from generation to generation. In ancient times, the word was the archaic character for "death", so "clan" was dead.
From 493 to 496 AD, the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Hong (Yuan Hong) moved the capital from Pingcheng to Luoyang, and after entering the Central Plains, the Death Clan, like most of the Xianbei peoples, gradually integrated into the Han people.
The big man who appears in the "dead surname"
After the Sui Dynasty, there were also many big figures, such as: Empress Yang Jian of the Sui Wen Emperor was a descendant of the Xianbei clan, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan's birth mother Empress Yuan Shu was also from Xianbei, Tang Gaozu Empress Ge Douling, and Tang Taizong Empress Changsun also had a glorious history.
After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the people of the Dead Clan disliked the indecent use of surnames, so they changed to the consonant Si Clan, The Huan Clan, the Qi Clan, etc., but the original "Dead Clan" is still passed down from generation to generation.
Unfortunately, the "dead surname" has undergone many changes in later history, and some families have hidden their eyes and ears, or feel that the surname of the dead surname is too "alternative", so there are many people who use their consonant surnames. This is the reason why the "dead surname" is gradually decreasing.
However, the "dead surname" has developed to the present, and most people live in Luoyang, Kaifeng and other cities. In general, although this surname has a great relationship with the royal family and has been brilliant for a period of time, under the wash of the long river of history, the "dead surname" has gradually faded out of the historical stage.
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