In ancient times, in the matrilineal clan era, the surname was formed, and after continuous evolution, it slowly and gradually grew, and when it developed to the Qin and Han dynasties, the surname and the surname began to merge, and the surname handed down from generation to generation was the highest embodiment of China's thousands of years of culture.
"Descendants of Yanhuang" is basically the Chinese nation, but according to incomplete official statistics, the number of 6931 single surnames on the mainland is so huge, some of the surnames are not native, and now they have become the descendants of the Chinese nation, after all, in history we have also experienced several great national integrations, of which the surname "An" may be the descendants of the "Persian" people.
The source of the development of the surname "An"
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian sent zhang Qian on an envoy to the countries of the Western Regions, so Zhang Qian successfully made a "Silk Road" for the Han Dynasty and even for future generations, in this Silk Road there was a small country called the "RestIng State" which was located on the road from Zhang Qian to the countries of the Western Regions, and now the location is in the territory of Iran, this "Resting State" is also called "Parthian Empire" Established by the founding of the State of Arsas in 247 BC, zhang Qian's arrival allowed the country to begin trade prosperity, because the Great Han had trade with the powerful Roman Empire at that time. This sabbath country was located in the middle of the two countries and gained a lot of benefits from it, and became a trade center alongside the four powers of Asia and Europe alongside the Han Dynasty, the Roman Empire, and the Kushan Empire.
In 148 BC, when the founding emperor of the Sabbath Kingdom died, the emperor passed the throne to his precious son, and as a result, this son did not like to be a monk when the emperor liked to be a monk, passed the throne to his uncle, he took hundreds of monks across the Silk Road to the Great Han, began his missionary career in the eastern capital Luoyang, and then felt that the Great Han was very good and settled down, and the prince took the name - An Qing.
After more than ten years, the Great Han sent 2,000 envoys to the Sabbath Country, and then the Resting State also sent a lot of people to the Central Plains, this back and forth, the two sides began to get acquainted, unexpectedly some of the emissaries arrived in the Great Han and An Qing did not want to return to China, contacted An Qing after voluntarily following him out of the family, in the Han Dynasty to practice and spread Buddhism, the people who came here followed the previous king, so everyone said that they began to sinicize with the customs, learned the appearance of the Central Plains people and changed their surnames and names, since the prince was called An Qing, Then everyone followed the prince's bar to be in the same line, so this group of people from "Persia" lived in the Han with the surname of "An", and slowly everyone accepted the advancement of Han culture.
Originally just wanted to live in the Han Dynasty people saw the development of the Han economy and agriculture, so they broke away from Buddhist propaganda and began to turn to all walks of life, married wives and children, became part of the Chinese nation, this surname spread in this way, a large number of national integration and population continue to increase also made the Han Dynasty strong, this part of the "An" surname foreign ethnic groups integrated in the torrent of history settled in the Central Plains, they believe in "AnQing" as the ancestor of the "An" clan, is the authentic root of the "An" clan, because today's "An" clan The surname is not this one branch.
In The history of China, there have also been many descendants of the "An" clan and are very famous, this vein is "foreigners", but in ancient times on the mainland, there were also branches of native and other ethnic minorities that were fused.
Huge "An" surname civilization
If you talk about the first of China's native An surname is the Last Year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, An Qisheng people called "Chitose Weng" He is a Langya person, he came into contact with Huang Lao's thought and Taoist doctrine at a young age, and after he matured, he founded the Fang Xian Dao, spread the Dao into immortals among the people, and the Daoist disciples who were with him regarded him as a god who cultivated immortals and asked questions, in the folk because the gods in the sky sent him down to save the masses of virtuous people to become immortals, and also advocated that he could refine Dan, and the art of immortality could be feathered into immortals and soared in the sky with immortal cranes. Everyone admired him for giving him the title of "True Man of the Arctic".
His thoughts had a profound impact on future generations, and Li Bai was influenced by The Old Huang's Thoughts of An Qisheng all day long and asked for immortality, and then pulled Du Fu and gao shi, and the three of them went into the pit together.
By the time of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the An family produced two famous officials, and the bureaucratic career path that had already gone was An Guangye and An Chongrong, and one of them served as the emissary of the Xingjun Festival and the other was the emissary of the Chengde Army, and both of them were known for their "benevolent government" during their tenure, but it is necessary to say that the historical fame of An Chongrong is greater, because An Chongrong has a famous master, "Shi Jingyao", and this Shi Jingyao is the famous "Child Emperor" in history.
When the five generations of the tang dynasty came to the Later Tang Dynasty, Shi Jingyao was a general under Li Cunxun, and Li Cunxun was the emperor who was a general mutiny, and he was not at ease with Shi Jingyao, but unfortunately he died shortly and returned to the west, and when the throne passed to Li Congke's hands, Shi Jingyao had already rebelled, and sure enough, Shi Jingyao rebelled, but Li Congke was not angry when the two sides fought fiercely, and Shi Jingyao was in the inferior position and was besieged in "Taiyuan".
So Shi Jingyao sent a letter to the Liao Emperor, who was 11 years younger than him, as long as Yelü Deguang could help him seize the throne, the first ceded Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures to the Liao State, the second claimed that the Emperor worshiped him as his father, and his general An Zhongrong heard that he was resolutely opposed, but this Shi Jingyao was not moved, and bent his knees to the Liao people for the sake of the throne, Yelü Deguang received the letter, thinking that there was such a good thing, so he sent troops to help Shi Jingyao, and the two sides attacked the Tang army, Li Congke resisted but held his wife and children on fire and set himself on fire on the Xuanwu Tower.
An Zhongrong commented on Shi Jingyao as "praising China for honoring Yidi, and this shame of all generations." This incident was also hated by Shi Jingyao, who rebelled when the Liao army was stationed in Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and was killed because of the outnumbered troops.
In that era of ethnic integration, An Chongrong was also once suspected to be a descendant of the Xianbei tribe, because after the Northern and Southern Dynasties changed their national surname to Tuoba to Yuan with the Sinicization of the Xianbei tribe, some noble royal families also changed their surnames in response to the policy, including the An Chi clan in the Tuguhun clan of the Xianbei clan.
If an Zhongrong's fame is not enough, the following must be recognized, that is, during the Tang Dynasty, the protagonist of the famous "AnShi Rebellion" - An Lushan, An Lushan is an ethnic minority, he is a Turk.
An Lushan originally had no name, his mother was originally a Turkic wizard to give divination for a living, when he was a child An Lushan's father died early, the name was given to him by others to give him a finger in the name of the mountain, when he was thirteen years old, he followed his mother to remarry An Yanyan, changed his surname to An, and only then did he have the name An Lushan, but he did not like his adoptive father always wanted to escape, once stole a peasant goat on the way to escape, and Zhang Shoujue was captured by Zhang Shoujue by Youzhou Jiedu to see that he was white and fat and brave enough to accept him as a righteous son This An Lushan was clever and cunning, he used money to open up the upper and lower lines of the line, together for him to say good things in front of Tang Xuanzong, Tang Xuanzong long heard this person wanted to summon him, An Lushan into the capital to report not only won the favor of Tang Xuanzong but also became the adopted son of Tang Xuanzong's favorite concubine Yang Yuhuan, at that time Yang Yuhuan was 16 years younger than An Lushan, and actually became his adoptive mother.
With Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan's favor, An Lushan, begin to be unscrupulous in the court, this caused strong dissatisfaction among the chancellor Yang Guozhong, and the two had a deep grudge over their rights.
After two or three years of planning, An Lushan's rebellion in Fanyang was to recruit the rebel Yang Guozhong, who was on the side of the Qing Emperor, and it took only three months to capture the eastern capital Luoyang, and Tang Xuanzong fled with Yang Guifei under the protection of tens of thousands of soldiers.
In 756, An Lushan's capital Luoyang Dingguo was named Great Yan, and he called himself Emperor Xiongwu, but he did not last long as emperor, he was killed by his own son and attendants, An Lushan was very fat, and his attendants around him were called Li Pig'er.
This Li Pig'er followed him when he escaped from the Turks, but he poisoned Li Pig'er and took a knife to castrate Li Pig'er, so painful that Li Pig'er's blood flowed, and he died of pain, An Lushan took fire ash to block the wound for a whole day before he woke up, at that time Li Pig'er began to hate him, and in his later years, An Lushan was even more obese, and he needed Li Pig'er to serve him, and because of the sores, he was all blind when he started the army, An Qingxu was his second son and Li Pig'er killed An Lushan, and An Qingxu ascended the throne as emperor.
After the Anshi Rebellion was quelled, Tang Suzong did not cut the grass and root out the An clan, the An clan also had the only surviving descendants to reproduce, and then the later An surname developed more, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, many ethnic minorities were changed to the An clan and foreign people also changed to the An surname after integrating into the ethnic group.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Eastern King Shizi Baduga Anduru, who migrated from the Philippines, lived in the Central Plains for a period of time because they believed in Islam and integrated into the mainland, so they took the surname "An", and in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the "Daur Ardan Clan", "Xibe Clan", and "Anjia Clan in the Manchus" were all changed to the surname "An", and the ethnic minorities after Sinicization began to live and work in peace and contentment in the Central Plains.
With the continuous advancement of the wheel of history, the surname "An" may be Persian descendants, Mongolian descendants, and more likely Filipino descendants, which shows that China is a multi-ethnic and united country.
From the Han Dynasty to the present two or three thousand years of history, after countless national integration to form a situation of 56 six nationalities together, each surname is unique, no matter which branch is now a living Chinese, we have experienced the collision of cultures, the integration of ideas, as early as thousands of years ago became a member of the Chinese nation, after a long historical baptism, today we are more compatriots of the Chinese nation, a family that loves each other, the sons and daughters of China will never change.