There are 5730 surnames in China, but people with these seven surnames may be high officials in their ancestors
Surname is a special "symbol" that everyone has, used to record and distinguish the relationship between characters, there are 5730 surnames in China, many surnames are quite related, but the surnames of these 7 surnames, the ancestors are most likely to be high officials, so which 7 surnames are these?
Many people do not expect that the earliest development of surnames originated from ancient totems. In ancient times, people still lived the days of drinking blood, did not have too deep understanding of natural things, and some ordinary natural phenomena became their irresistible existence, so they began to believe in different gods. Since the people at that time lived in the form of tribes, each tribe had its own beliefs, and different totems were formed.
Don't look at the ancient human culture is not high, but they know that close relatives can not intermarry, so they use totems to distinguish tribal races, and totems slowly evolve into "surnames" to distinguish between various tribes. Over time, the tribe will also branch out, and the location of this branch will form a "clan".
Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, "surname" and "surname" have always existed separately, including when introducing Qin Shi Huang, it will be written that the surname of Zhao is written, according to the law of surnames as we know it, it can be inferred that Qin Shi Huang is a winning surname, but it belongs to the branch that migrated to the Zhao State. Since Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, the Qin and Han dynasties have combined surnames into one, which is what we understand in modern times. The development and change of surnames is very huge, and many surnames are also quite related, of which these 7 surnames are most likely to be high officials.
Since the beginning of the monarch's rule, he has set up a number of departments under his command, each exercising different powers, for the country, the four most important things are the military, civil affairs, industry and agriculture and social order, so the king set up the Sima official position in charge of the military, the Situ official in charge of civil affairs, the Sikong in charge of industry and agriculture, and the Sikou in charge of prison.
Military involves national defense, whether a country is peaceful, whether it has the ability to resist foreign enemies, all depend on how the military armed forces can see that Sima has great power in his hands, while Situ manages population, household registration, and other matters, seemingly trivial and does not have much power, but it is very grounded, if Sima has become a heavy minister with military power, and Situ is to control the lifeblood of the whole country's population with the strength of "county officials are not as good as the current management". The same was true of Sikong and Sikou, all four official positions of great importance in the time of kings.
When the main responsible persons of these four departments left their posts, in order to continue their glory, they changed their surnames to official positions, and during their tenure, they had already facilitated such official titles, and simply changed them directly to surnames, so the official positions of Sima Shi, Situ, Sikong, and Si Kou became surnames, and if they were people with these four surnames, the ancestors were likely to be high officials.
In addition to taking the official position as the name, some people changed the function of the official office they were responsible for to the surname, that is, the "qian" surname. The surname Qian is a very old surname, if traced back to the ancestors, the predecessor of the Qian surname is not surnamed Qian but surnamed Peng, which has to start from pengzu, the seventh grandson of the Yellow Emperor, which is really a big official of the red Miaozheng.
It is said that Peng Zu lived to an advanced age of 880 years, regarded as a god-man-like existence, his original name was "Qi Zhen" himself was also a very capable person, deeply appreciated by Yao, so Yao gave him a fief, and this fief was located in "Da Peng", so the Seventh Grandson of the Yellow Emperor became the ancestor of Peng, and was called Peng Zu by future generations.
Let's talk about Qifu, the son of Qifu. The father had a high-ranking official, and the son was not inferior, and when Qifu was alive, he held the position of "Sergeant of the Qianfu Palace", which was a little unfamiliar to this official position, but the function of the official office he was responsible for was that everyone liked, that is, the money in charge of the national treasury, in modern terms, the minister of finance. After that, Qifu changed this official function to his surname, and the Surname Qian was born, and because Qifu was the son of Peng Zu, the folk had the saying that "Peng Qian does not separate the family".
The five surnames introduced above are not common in life, and the next two surnames are very "popular", one is the surname of Li, and the other is the surname of Zhang. No one could have imagined that the hundred family names we are familiar with, "Zhang Wang Li Zhao Everywhere Liu", actually have two surnames whose ancestors are most likely to be high officials.
The origin of the surname Li can be traced back to the end of the Shang Dynasty. The descendants of the original Winning surname of Li can be seen that the Surname Of Li and Qin Shi Huang still have a certain relationship. In this family during the Shang Dynasty, there was a senior official in charge of the criminal law in the family, and the official title was "Dali", and it is not difficult to understand this official position if you think about the later Dali Temple Secretary.
This official position is hereditary system, and later this family simply changed its surname to "Li", and in the shang dynasty, a person named "Li Zheng" annoyed the king of Li and was killed, and the Li family began to live a life of escape, in order to survive, they made a living from plums, so the surname of Li was changed to Li. In the Tang Dynasty, the surname Li directly became a national surname, which shows that the surname Li is destined to be an extraordinary surname, not only a high official, but also an emperor.
The ancestors of the Zhang surname came from the Yellow Emperor's grandson Zhang Hui. We all know that the Yellow Emperor is a "Ji" surname, how can there be a grandson with the surname Of Zhang? It turned out that Zhang Hua's original name was Ji Ban, and he was the fifth son of Shao Hao, the eldest son of the Yellow Emperor. We all know that there was a famous battle between the Yellow Emperor and Xuan You called the "Battle of Zhuolu", which was the final victory of the Yellow Emperor, and the greatest credit for the victory came from Ji Fang, who invented the bow and arrow.
So the Yellow Emperor gave Ji Ban the surname "Zhang", the bow chief was originally the official position responsible for making weapons, and the current interpretation is that it is the "first hand" of the arsenal, and the Zhang surname was born, and Zhang Hui himself was respected by later generations as the ancestor of the Zhang clan. It can be seen that the surname Zhang is not only a high official, but also a direct bloodline of the Yellow Emperor.
It can be seen from this that the seven surnames of Sima, Situ, Sikong, Sikou, Qian, Li, and Zhang all have a lot of "coming", the ancestors of each surname are big officials, Sima, Situ, Sikong, Sikou These four surnames are relatively rare, the Qian surname is not common, people did not expect that the common Li surname and the ancestors of the Zhang surname are not small, and they are still related to the royal family, if they belong to these seven surnames, they may wish to consult the elders, tracing back to the source, maybe the ancestors are all big officials!
