The two proudest surnames in the past, one surnamed Liu and one surnamed Li, but which one has the most emperors
Our great China has a very long history and culture, and in the earliest matriarchal society, only a few tribes determined our earliest surname, only a few surnames at the beginning, and then with more and more people in the tribe, there was a so-called clan, the surname represents the tribe where this person was born, the clan represents the place where it now exists, in order to distinguish everyone's identity, and gradually evolved, until the Time of the Qin Dynasty, the surname was no longer different, it represented a person's identity.
Put to the current society, the surname represents a person's patrilineal clan, but also represents who this person is, according to the order of the Song Dynasty's editing of the "Hundred Family Names", the first surname is "Zhao", this is not because there are many people with the surname Zhao, but because the surname Zhao is the highest status, the emperor is surnamed Zhao, and in that era of feudal dictatorship, if there is a person who can be given the imperial surname, it is a very long face, and this life can be flat.
According to the statistics of known historical information, there are two surnames that can be said to be very proud, one is "Liu" and the other is "Li", these two surnames are the surnames that have appeared the most emperors in history, so which surname appears more emperors? Xiaobian will talk about these two surnames for you today.
And the origin of the surname Li is also very complicated, some people say that it was passed down from Yingzheng, some people say that it is because of a totem, of course, there is no reason why the imperial family gives surnames to ethnic minorities, in the Song Dynasty, there are nearly six million people with the surname Of Li, which is the second largest surname at that time, in the surname of Li, there have been 60 emperors, although not as good as the surname of Liu, but the number is also amazing, and there are very talented people such as Shixian Li Bai, in the sixth census, the number of people surnamed Li in the country has exceeded ninety-five million, Accounting for 7.9% of the national population, it is deservedly the largest modern surname.
Although when writing "Hundred Family Names" in the Song Dynasty, it was sorted according to the degree of honor of the surname, for example, Zhao was the surname of the emperor at that time, and Qian was also very high-status, he was the surname of the founding emperor of the Wu Kingdom, it was also very honorable, in ancient times, everyone used to rank the status with the surname, there was a person with an imperial family name who was superior to the people since birth, but the development of the times to today, there is no longer a set of feudal superstitions, all people are very equal, There is absolutely no such thing as a surname becoming different from ordinary people.
And now, some surnames that were not valued before, such as Shangguan, Dongfang, etc., will be more concerned because they are more unique and sound more advanced. In general, the surname Of Liu and Li in the past emperors were the most surnamed Liu, what is your surname? Dare to write it in the comments section?
References: "Hundred Family Names", "Book of Han"