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Today to give you a small historical knowledge.
Since childhood, we have all memorized "Hundred Family Names":
"Zhao Qiansun Li, Zhou Wu Zheng Wang"
In fact, there has always been a question, that is:
Zhao
Why is it in the first place?
money
and
grandchild
And why is it in the top 4? Because this is far from the current surname ranking.
Later, I slowly learned: It turns out that
"Hundred Family Names"
It first appeared in the Song Dynasty, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty was surnamed Zhao, so it was natural that Zhao ranked first, but what about Qian and Sun? Was there a particularly large number of people with the surnames Qian and Sun at that time?
In fact, it is not, which is related to the author of "Hundred Family Names".
According to incomplete research: the author of "Hundred Family Names" is Wu Yueren,
Wu Yue
Where?
Wu Yue was a small political power established in the south of China during the Five Dynasties period, and it still existed until the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty. However, later, the Northern Song Dynasty implemented the strategic decision of "first south and then north", and these small regimes were successively annexed by the Great Song Dynasty, and the southern part of China was unified, as shown in the figure:
And this Emperor of Wuyue, or Wang, was surnamed Qian. The first king of Wuyue was called
Money hammer
A total of five generations of Wuyue kings were passed down, and finally by Song Taizu
Zhao Kuangyin
Mergers.
However, this Wuyue king was very knowledgeable, and they did not resist the Central Plains, but were directly peacefully evolved by the Great Song. In this way, it avoided a fight and bloody sacrifice between the military and the people on both sides, and the Qian family also retained their wealth. It's a bit like the Three Kingdoms
Zhang Lu
If you can't win a fight, you will surrender, the sooner the better, and if you are late, you may not have a good result.
The person who rowed this "Hundred Family Names" is said to be Wu Yueren, and it is reasonable to say that he should put money first, but the Qian family warned his descendants from the time when Qian Wei founded the country not to confront the Central Plains regime, and must enshrine them as orthodox, so as to ensure the peace of Wu Yue. It seems that this Wu Yue Taizu was still quite prescient, and Wu Yue successfully passed through five generations under his guidance and entered the Northern Song Dynasty.
As the author of "Hundred Family Names" of Wu Yue's subjects, he naturally did not dare to make a mistake, only to put the Zhao surname in the first place and the money in the second place. What about Sun? Why is Sun ranked third?
It turned out that the last Wuyue King
Qian Hongli
The princess's surname is Sun, which is equivalent to their mother, and her surname is of course the third place. It seems that this author still knows the rules. In fact, there is more than this factor, the Surname sun has an important position in Jiangnan since the Three Kingdoms, and it is still a major surname in the Northern Song Dynasty, otherwise they would not have married the Qian family.
Let's look at it again
Surname Lee
Li is the national surname of the Tang Dynasty, plus Wu Yue's neighbor
Southern Tang
The emperor was also surnamed Li, so the surname Li was a well-deserved surname at that time, and it was comparable to Zhao, ranking after Qian and Sun. Of course, if the author is Nan Tang, the result is not like this.
As for the ranking after the top 4 surnames, the author is also roughly ranked according to the family clan at that time, and it has changed a lot compared with the surname list ranked by the number of people today. So let's not be surprised.
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