In the history of China's two-thousand-year-old feudal dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty and lasted for more than two hundred years. During this period, there were also prosperous times, that is, the Kangxi Qianlong period, but this was already the last prosperous world.
Under the appearance of prosperity, the country has had many problems, and its national strength has begun to slowly lag behind other countries, but from the emperor to the people, they are immersed in it and have not noticed this problem. After that, Western countries began to invade China, which brought great disasters to China at that time. Eventually, China's last feudal dynasty ended with the abdication of the last emperor, Puyi.
As we all know, the rulers of this dynasty were not Han Chinese, but were founded by the Manchus. This nation has its own characteristics, which are reflected in many places. For example, everyone knows the hair, when they just entered the customs, they asked everyone to shave their braids, which also caused a bloody storm, after all, many people are reluctant to cut their hair. Girls also grew up on horseback, can not wrap their feet, and later in order to look good, they put on flower pot bottom shoes, and the cheongsam they wear is also very different from han costumes. In addition to these, there is also a surname.
Most of the surnames of the Han people are one word, and occasionally there are two characters, and the titles are all with names and surnames. However, because the Manchu surname is in Manchu, it is very long after translation, most of which is three or four characters, such as Ai Xin Jue luo, Guar Jia and so on. They also call them by name, say Dorgon.
So why are these surnames rare now? Because after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, in order to protect themselves, they did not dare to use such a special situation, most of them changed their surnames to Han in order to survive and avoid disasters. So some of the people with Han surnames that we see now, it is possible that they are Manchus, such as Na Ying. So, what did they all change to?
Like the Niu Hulu clan, it was changed to the niu surname according to the first word, and some of them changed their surname to Lang. The Guarjia clan is also one of the eight major surnames of the Manchus, because they worship Guan Yu, so they changed their surname to Guan.
There is also the Nala clan, they have several branches, they are very prosperous, there are many empresses are from this family, like the empress dowager and empress in Zhen Huan's biography. Based on the first word, they changed their surname to that. There is also the Ai Xin Jue Luo clan, they were originally small surnames, but because the emperor's surname is this, it is extremely honorable. They changed to Jin, Luo, Ai, etc., and most of them were surnamed Jin.