There is an old saying: "It is better to give a son a thousand gold than to teach a son an art; it is better to teach a son to have an art than to give a good name to a son." "For every Chinese, the name is an incomparably important existence, it is not only a proof of your identity, a bloodline, but also the first gift given to you by your parents."
According to the "2019 National Name Report" released by the public security department, it can be seen that the five surnames of Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu and Chen occupy the top 5 of the surname list, of which "Wang surname" almost "occupies" the entire northern region, ranking first in "Hundred Family Names".
However, what I want to tell you today is not the contemporary "five surnames", but the most honorable "five surnames and seven hopes" in China thousands of years ago, when even the royal family was not eligible to marry the people in these 5 surnames, do not know your surname?
First of all, let's briefly understand what is the "five surnames and seven looks", this "five surnames" is well understood, that is, "five surnames", as for this "seven looks", it refers to "county look", "county" is an administrative division, "wang" is a famous family, combined is a certain region or range of famous families, because the world looks up to these famous families, so it is called "county look".
Therefore, the "five surnames and seven hopes" is the most honorable 5 surnames in the famous and prestigious families in the 7 regions, but all the people in these 5 surnames, even if they have no knowledge, can enter the dprk as officials, as for the students of the cold door, it is difficult to squeeze their heads into the career, which is the so-called "upper product without cold door, lower product without scholar family", in order to ensure that future generations still enjoy this privilege, the five surnames and seven hopes will not easily intermarry with foreign surnames.
The first surname: Cui surname
In that year, the Cui surname has always been known as "the highest gate in the world, the head of the Hao clan in the north", until the Li Tang royal family ascended to the throne, and it was hard to reduce the Cui surname to the second largest surname. However, in the eyes of the world, the status of the Cui surname is still unshakable.
However, it should be noted here that the Cui surname is divided into 2 clans, namely "Qinghe Cui Clan" and "Boling Cui Clan". This Cui surname originally originated from the surname of Jiang, in ancient legends, this "Jiang" is the surname of the descendants of Emperor Yan, in that year, Emperor Yan's descendant Sun Jiang Shang was made a duke for assisting King Wen and King Jianzhou of Wu, and his descendants took the area around Cui Yi (present-day northwest of Zhangqiu, Shandong) as a food yi, and his descendants took "Cui" as a surname, thus deriving the "Cui surname".
With the development of the times, the Cui clan has many capable people, including 29 prime ministers, and the Cui clan has further derived from the Zhengzhou Cui clan, the Yanling Cui clan, the Qizhou Cui clan, etc., but the strongest are still the "Qinghe Cui Clan" and the "Boling Cui Clan".
The second largest surname: Li surname
As mentioned above, the Cui surname was originally the first surname in the "Five Surnames and Seven Wangs", but after the appearance of the Li Tang royal family, they forcibly suppressed them, ranking their own "Li surname" first, and the two largest branches of the Li clan were "Longxi Li Clan" and "Zhao County Li Clan", the former was after Sun GaoTao, the latter was after Li Tan, the imperial master of Qin, and the Li surname also produced 17 ministers, and the strength should not be underestimated.
The third largest surname: Lu surname
Like the Surname Of Cui, the Surname of Lu is also from the "Surname of Jiang", and its representative figures include Lu Ao, Lu Zhi, Lu Qin, Lu Jun, etc. The Lu clan has produced 8 prime ministers and entered the government affairs hall for discussion, but unfortunately, like the surname Cui, it was suppressed by the Li Tang royal family, and its status gradually decreased.
The fourth largest surname: Zheng surname
Regarding the Zheng lineage, the earliest can be traced back to the Zheng state of The Zhou Xuan King, although the Zheng state was destroyed, but the royal descendants still continued the Zheng surname, and took the hometown of Xingyang as the county, so the Zheng family, the most famous is the "Xingyang Zheng family", but with the implementation of the imperial examination system, the Zheng family gradually declined.
But the decline, the arrogance in his bones is still there, when Tang Wenzong Li Ang wanted to match the granddaughter of Zheng Qin of the Xingyang Zheng clan (then the prime minister) to his son, but Zheng Qin directly refused, and then married his granddaughter to a young man in the Cui clan, although he was only a nine-pin sesame official, he was not at all comparable to the current prince. Afterwards, Li Ang also sighed: "Li Shi's two hundred years of heavenly son, can't care about Cui and LuYe? ”
The fifth surname: Wang surname
Although this Wang surname ranks last in the "Five Surnames and Seven Wangs", it is the best developed of all the Wang clans in the later period, especially the Langya Wang Clan, which can be described as the most representative famous wang clan in the Central Plains in the Middle Ages, among which the powerful ministers Wang Dun, the Cheng Xiang Wang Dao, the Shusheng Wang Xizhi, and wang Rong, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, all came from the Langya Wang clan, in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Langya Wang clan was called the "First Wang Clan" by sima Rui, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, and more than 75% of the officials in the dynasty were all wang family, or people related to the wang family, which was historically called "wang and horse." The world is together".
Although during the Tang Dynasty, the Wang clan gradually declined like other large clans, but the People of the Wang Clan, such as Wang Bo, Wang Wei, Wang Changling, etc., became world-famous poets, and Empress Wang of Tang Gaozong was also a member of the Wang Clan.
Today, there is no longer the so-called "door division", and in the "five surnames and seven hopes", only the surnames of Wang and Li are still "strong", and the Wang family is "counterattacking" to become the first surname, I don't know if there are the surnames of your readers and friends in this "five surnames and seven hopes"? Feel free to share your discussion in the comments section.