Chinese pay attention to inheritance, and the surname is a confirmation of the blood lineage.
Among the hundred family names, Wang Li'er's surname can be called two major surnames, and it is still a prosperous population and continues to this day.
"All things are sought by heaven, and the descendants are far away and blessed."
It is worth mentioning that these two surnames are not only prosperous, but also blessed.
In history, there have been 66 emperors with the surname Li, and although there has only been one emperor in the surname Of Wang, there are countless famous courtiers and nobles.
1. The only emperor with the surname Wang in history
The so-called surname should actually be divided into two.
The meaning of surname and surname is not the same, in ancient times it was a matriarchal society, when only the mother was known, but not the father, and the surname was also called by the mother.
Later, when he entered the patriarchal society, he began to follow his father's surname, and the clan was the meaning of the clan, representing a small tribe related by blood.
Later, human beings entered the class society, the early clan tribes gradually withered away, and the surnames slowly merged into one, becoming a symbol of blood in the name.
According to surname survey data, there are currently about 100 million people with the surname Wang in the country, and Wang is the second largest surname in China.
As far back as the Han Dynasty, there was an emperor who was also surnamed Wang, and he was Wang Mang.
As we all know, the Han Dynasty was the domain of the Liu family, but in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, the fortunes of the times changed.
At that time, the Han Dynasty was in decline, and foreign relatives were in power.
Wang Mang's aunt was the empress of Emperor Yuan, and several of Wang Mang's uncles also served as prominent officials in the imperial court. Therefore, the power of the royal family is very large, and it can be said that the power is tilted towards the opposition and the honor is temporary.
Wang Mang has learned to be ingenious since childhood, and often has different behaviors. Although he is young, he is quite a city.
In addition, Wang Mang is not accustomed to luxury, and his life is very frugal, and the children of the Wang family are nothing more than eating wine and socializing every day, and their voices are dogs and horses, in contrast, Wang Mang is like a bitter student.
People looked at him coldly and said that this person would do a great deal in the future.
Sure enough, when the Han Ping Emperor took the throne, Wang Mang blackmailed Tianzi to order the princes, and finally claimed that the emperor established a new dynasty.
Although the new dynasty lasted only a dozen years, and Wang Mang also bore the reputation of usurping the Han Dynasty, he was the only emperor in the Wang surname.
It is true that among the emperors, the surname of Wang accounts for only one person, but throughout the history of celebrities, the surname of Wang is also quite a lot, which can be described as a generation of talents and brilliant stars.
The Warring States general Wang Qi (王翦), who was a general under the King of Qin, was resourceful and brave enough to crown the three armies; the famous poets Wang Wei and Wang Bo of the Tang Dynasty, whose poems were praised for thousands of years and endured for a long time; the Song Dynasty name Wang Anshi, who initiated the Xining Transformation Method, had a great influence.
Second, the emperor surnamed Li elaborated
After saying the surname of Wang, let's talk about the surname of Li.
The surname Li is the largest in Chinese, with a total of 120 million people, the largest surname, and there are as many as 66 emperors surnamed Li in history.
The history of the Three Kingdoms is well known, and later the three families returned to the Jin Dynasty and the world was unified, but in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the world was in chaos and strife arose again. The Sixteen Kingdoms were formed, and Cheng Han was one of the Sixteen Kingdoms.
In 306 AD, Li Xiong was proclaimed emperor in Shudi, and for more than 40 years, Chenghan totaled 6 emperors, all of whom were surnamed Li, and then Li Hao built the Western Liang Kingdom, a total of 3 emperors.
The Tang Dynasty was the dynasty with the largest number of emperors surnamed Li.
In the 6th century, Li Yuan was called emperor and the state name was Tang.
It lasted for nearly three hundred years, a total of 21 emperors, the last emperor was Li Zhu, in the meantime, people are familiar with Li Shimin, Li Longji, Li Yu and so on.
Later, later scholars generally included Wu Zhou in the history of the Tang Dynasty, but Wu Zetian could only be counted as the daughter-in-law of the Li family, and did not have a surname itself, so there were a total of 20 emperors in the Tang Dynasty who were surnamed Li, so the Tang Dynasty was also known as Li Tang, which was one of the most powerful dynasties in ancient times.
In addition, in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, there was also a rebel army, whose leader was called Li Zitong, who later established the state of Wu, known in history as Li Wu, but only lasted for three years.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the feudal towns were divided and formed five generations and ten kingdoms.
The tang dynasty, which was at its peak, fell violently, and all the princes of all walks of life adhered to the government, and some of the Li surname regimes were not originally surnamed Li, but had originally contributed to the imperial court, so the Tang king gave the surname of Li. For example, the Later Tang Dynasty, founded by Li Cunmao, lasted for a total of 13 years and passed on 5 emperors, all of whom were surnamed Li. There were also 3 emperors of the Southern Tang Dynasty, 12 emperors of western Xia, 2 emperors of Great Shu and Wei, and so on.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the world was in chaos, and it was not until the Song Dynasty that the country was unified.
Since then, the Li-Tang Dynasty has completely come to an end.
In addition, the closest emperor surnamed Li to us is Li Zicheng.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters, heroes and heroes rose together.
Like Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng grew up in a poor family and had no means of subsistence, both as a monk and a sheep herder, but he was born with leadership ability, and later joined the peasant army, turned to the north and south, and gradually won the trust of the people, the prestige grew day by day, and became a leading figure.
In the end, he attacked the city of Beijing in one fell swoop, and the Chongzhen Emperor was forced to hang himself, and Li Zicheng was proclaimed emperor, with the name of Dashun.
Although the State of Da shun only existed for one year, Li Zicheng became the last emperor surnamed Li. Later, the Manchu Qing entered the customs, and Li Zicheng defeated Shanhaiguan and his whereabouts are unknown.
3. Historical celebrities surnamed Li
There are many emperors surnamed Li, and there are more celebrities surnamed Li.
In the Han Dynasty, there was a sharpshooter Li Guang, who was a national hero and admired by future generations; Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Qingzhao, a song lyricist, whose poems were crowned with ancient and modern times, and whose names were Zhen Huayu; the Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen, the Compendium of Materia Medica, was his masterpiece.
Come to think of these names, from the seventy-year-old man to the children of several years old, they are basically well-known to everyone, women and children.
It can be seen that the Li surname is worthy of being the first major surname in China, and the back wave of the Yangtze River urges the front wave, and there are talented people in the Jiangshan generation, and there are not a few people who are in the upper echelons of the late.
The above only lists li wang's second surname, but the pipe peeps into the leopard.
In addition, there are more than 500 surnames in the hundred family names, and this is only a touch of red in the blossoming bushes.
According to statistics, there are as many as thousands of surnames in China, and each surname has its own long history, such as the eight surnames of the ancients, which have been four or five thousand years ago, which shows that our culture has a long history.
The rest of the surnames, or celebrities, or emperors and generals, have historical records to examine, showing a state of a hundred flowers.
As the ancient poet Yun said: "Ten thousand trees and rivers by the shadow, the new midnight wind." The garden is full of dark and light colors, shining into the green waves. ”