Are "Yan" and "Yan" a surname?
Are "Yan" and "Yan" exactly one surname? There is a particularly strange phenomenon, some families have the surname of this "Yan", but the sons and daughters are this "Yan"? What the hell is going on? Seems a bit illogical. This article must make it clear. The topic of today's talk is the surnames "Yan" and "Yan".
Last name puzzle
What is the essence of the Chinese characters "Yan" and "Yan"?
Looking at the word "yan" first, I see that on the outside of it is a door, and the inside is pronounced xiàn, and xiàn means "inside, recessed inside". Therefore, the character "Yan" composed of one door and one xiàn is essentially the "door in the hutong." The Eastern Han Dynasty's "Commentaries on the Interpretation of Texts" also says: Yan, Lizhongmenye. The word "Yan" is relatively simple, there are three horizontal lines in a door, "Yan" is also an ancient Chinese character, from ancient times to the present, the meaning is very single, has always existed as a surname.
Is it essentially the same?
"Yan" and "Yan" have the same source.
They do come from one source, the same root and the same origin, all originated from one of the eight surnames of the ancients, the "Ji" surname, which eight surnames? [Ji, Jiang, Ji, Yin, Yan, Concubine, Yao] See, that's all? You will find that there is a female character on the side. This shows that at that time, in the matriarchal society period, women were dominant. Second, women are the main body that nurtures life. Now you look back at the "Hundred Family Names" which one is not from the Ancient Eight Surnames. And the two yan surnames we are talking about today come from the Ji surname.
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The historical number of "Yan" and "Yan" is very different
Yan character, the Shang Dynasty, the number of "Yan" surnames is now far more than the number of the second "Yan" surname. Moreover, there are 4 major branches of the Great Yan surname in the whole country: Shandong Derangtang Wenning Yan Clan Tengchong Yan Clan Liangguang Yan Clan. The second "Yan" surname appeared later in the historical record. At least before the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no data record, and even the authoritative dictionary of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Shuowen Jiezi", only recorded the first Yan surname, not the second Yan surname. In the Tang Dynasty, there are records, such as the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister, who was also a painter Yan Liben. It is this "Yan". So much so that the Northern Song Dynasty's "Hundred Family Names" also had the surname of "Yan". Now many celebrities are also surnamed "Yan", such as actor Yan Ni Yan Xuejing lyricist Yan Su and so on.
Four branches
Answer questions:
Some people say, teacher, you nonsense, didn't the above mention say that there was "Yan" in ancient times? Everyone should pay attention to the fact that in ancient times, there was this source, and his source was not necessarily the Yan surname, but it was constantly differentiated, constantly differentiated, and there was a record of this "Yan" in the Tang and Song Dynasties.
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In some families, the father's surname is "Yan", but the son's surname is "Yan"
We next solve the problem: why do you feel that this pair of yan surnames is a bit messy. Now some families have the father being the first Yan, but the son's ID card is the second Yan. This is because in the 1950s and 1970s, the mainland implemented a reform of the simplification of Chinese characters. In order to improve efficiency, subtract some Chinese characters with more strokes and fewer strokes instead of more strokes. So it was during that special period that the second Yan character was used as a simplified word for the first Yan character, and the phenomenon of mixed writing appeared between the two. In particular, computers were not widespread in those days, and many people's identity cards and enrollment registers were all handwritten. The first Yan character was written as the surname Yan with few strokes. You don't believe that the grandfather's generation, the father's ID card is "Yan", and you are "Yan".
Strange surname
Conclusion:
In fact, this situation is not in the minority, such as the surname "Xiao" and "Xiao", "Fu" and "Fu" are not the same? I must say that no matter what intricate relationship "Yan" and "Yan" have historically been, they are now like 2 separate surnames. What will happen to the development of the times, who knows?