The Year of the Tiger is coming,
Ask everyone a cold knowledge,
You know Tiger as a surname
Read what?
The answer you must not think!
The tiger surname does not read "hǔ",
And read "māo".
According to media reports, on the mainland, the number of Tiger surnames in the crowd is extremely rare, mainly distributed in Zhaotong, Yunnan and Xindu District, Chengdu, Sichuan, Xindu District, Pidu District, in addition to Gansu, Nanjing, Guizhou, there are also Tiger surnames.
But why is the surname "tiger" (hǔ),
But should it be pronounced as "cat" (māo)?
According to a scholar surnamed Li who has studied the tiger surname in Chengdu, there are many Hui people in the tiger surname, and the people with the tiger surname are called "māo" between each other, or outsiders call the tiger surname, "the shouting method has been passed down from ancient times to the present, and it is not a name that only exists in the year of the tiger."
Why is it called "cat" instead of "tiger"? Mr. Li introduced that he has gone to the place where people with the surname of hu live in the field, "because in everyone's impression, the tiger is more fierce, the cat is more docile, and the tiger also belongs to the feline family, its ancestor is a cat, so the tiger is also called a big cat, which can confirm that the tiger and the cat have the same ancestor." ”
Hu Yongfang, the chief of the Sichuan Chengdu Fangcao Volunteer Corps, is a Hui person known as "Tiger Mother". The 74-year-old told reporters that listening to the older generation, from the perspective of national customs, the surname tiger is not called "tiger", but "cat", but with the development of the times and the great integration of nationalities, now everyone calls her "tiger" surname, not "cat" surname, "there are also called cats, but they are very rare." And when others call her a "cat" surname, she also feels normal, "like a word has two tones." ”
Associate Professor Liu Dongxu of Minzu University of China
In an interview with the media, he said,
"More special surnames like 'Tiger',
It is related to historical development. ”
Historically,
There are probably two sources of origin for the tiger surname:
The first is from the descendants of Bo Hu, one of the "Eight Yuan" of the ancient Shunchen, with the tiger as the clan. According to ancient historical legends, Bo Hu was the minister of Emperor Zhao. The descendants of the Bohu clan then took the tiger as the surname and called the tiger clan, which became an important source of today's tiger family.
The second is the tiger surname from the Hui: the tiger surname in the Hui people, taken from the first sound of the ancestral name. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, the Western Regions people of the Western Regions, Qiu Kebier, lived in Nanjing to serve as the deputy qianhu of Jinyi Wei, and his son Hu Bei'er, who took Hu Bei'er as his surname, included Sun Huxian and Huma Town.
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Source 丨 Red Star News
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