"Those with surnames, symbols indicating family blood", since ancient times, China has a surname, Sima Qian recorded in the "History of the Five Emperors Benji": the yellow emperor twenty-five sons, fourteen people with the surname. It can be seen from this that with the inheritance of generation after generation, the surname has developed into many branches, no longer limited to a "ancestral surname", as long as you are not afraid of the old ancestor's blame, you can change the surname. However, having said that, there are still many people who do not even recognize the existing surname, and one of them is the most similar to the surname of the partial head, although it is only 3 short strokes, but most people do not recognize it.
Cao Yin of the Qing Dynasty once mentioned in the poem "Late Tour of the Spring on the Xishan Mountain of Bozhou": The sound of the evening spring is biased, and the clouds are scattered with stone and grass, and the word "彡" here describes "Mao Chang", referring to the appearance of lush grass and trees. However, the word "彡" has another identity - the surname. Xiǎn (彡) surname, a very rare surname, a total of three strokes, many people will pronounce it as "whiskers, pieces, rivers" and the like, so there are many jokes.
However, not knowing the word "彡" is not a shameful thing, who makes Chinese culture profound? And there is an emperor in history that he does not know, that is the real embarrassment. In the eighth year of Tianshun (1464), the 17-year-old Emperor Mingxianzong Zhu Mishen had just ascended the throne, and in order to show his wisdom and martial arts, he soon held a imperial examination to select outstanding talents. As an emperor, Zhu Jianshen naturally had to preside over the temple examination himself, so he sat on the top of the Golden Ruan Hall and checked the examination papers of those who read the books.
Generally speaking, after the emperor reads the examination papers, he will evaluate the rank, and then report the candidate's name to the eunuch waiting outside the hall, and let him bring the named candidates into the hall in turn, this link was called "Golden Luan Chuanqi" in ancient times, and those candidates who were pointed out regarded as a great honor. Originally, Zhu Mishen also planned to do the same, but when he read a name called "Yan Mao", he froze, not because he was unwell, but because he did not know the word "Yan".
Suddenly, the hall fell silent, and the bystanders kept looking at the young emperor with the afterglow, and the scene was once very embarrassing. Fortunately, the university scholar Li Xian stood next to Zhu Jianshen, who was not only an extremely knowledgeable person, but also good at observing the color of speech, and when he saw Zhu Mishen reading the name, he stopped at Yan Mao, so he concluded that Zhu Jianshen must not know the word. Therefore, he whispered to Zhu Jianshen: This word is a bit off-the-beaten- and its pronunciation is the same as "Shaanxi" in Shaanxi, and there is no record of the rhythm, so you don't know that it is normal.
Zhu Mi felt deeply embarrassed, and his heart was a little annoyed with the word "彡", so he gave the surname of "Yan Mao" the surname of "Shaan" on the grounds that the surname "Yan" was too strange and rare, and from then on, the surname of "Yan" was even more rare, and was replaced by the surname of "Shaanxi". ("Chronicle of Gong'an County": Shaan Mao, character Yiqing.) There are few strange children's eyes... The initial surname is Yan, the upper ask the cabinet minister, with "Shaanxi" right, the upper order is to use the word 'Shaanxi', and the Mao family has a surname given by the Heavenly Dynasty. ）
In addition, according to the "Surname Source", the surname Is derived from the Jiang surname of the descendants of the Ancient Yan Emperor, and when it was transmitted to the Han Dynasty, the surname became a surname living in the Qiang tribe of Longxi, and the surname "彡" was originally called "彡 and (xiǎn zǐ)" (xiǎn zǐ)", but it was gradually Sinicized and simplified to the "Yan" surname. In modern times, because many people do not recognize this surname, the computer system does not recognize, so many descendants of the "Yan" clan changed their surnames, and now it is difficult to see.