It turns out that the last name can be written so beautifully, you know?

Chinese had a surname before the Three Emperors and Five Emperors (about five thousand years ago).

During the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, people had both surnames and surnames.

The popular "Hundred Family Names" in China was written during the Northern Song Dynasty, and a total of 408 single surnames and 30 compound surnames were collected, for a total of 438.

Later, it is said that there are 4,000 to 6,000, but only about 1,000 are actually applied.

Different surnames have different evolutionary processes and have undergone different cultural changes.

Have you ever wondered what these surnames have been handed down are expressed in beautiful Chinese calligraphy?

The art of writing characters and thus the art of calligraphy were probably only invented on the Chinese soil where cultural deposits were particularly deep.

The following is from the works of calligraphy in the past generations, find out the most common surnames, see if your surname is written into calligraphy, is it beautiful?

Yuan Dynasty Zhao Mengfu "Bile Tablet"▽

Tang Dynasty Yan Zhenqing's "Many Pagoda Steles"▽

Han Zhongxuan 'Declaration Table'▽

Ming Dynasty Dong Qichang "Xu Hao Shufu Junbei" ▽

Tang Dynasty Ouyang Inquiry "Jiucheng Gong Liquan Ming" ▽

Yuan Dynasty Zhao Mengfu "Records of the Three Qing Temples"▽

Yuan Dynasty Zhao Mengfu "Shouchun Tang Record" ▽

Qing Dynasty Zhao Zhiqian's "496 Character Album of the Southern Tang Dynasty"▽

Tang Dynasty Chu Suiliang's "Sacred Order of the Wild Goose Pagoda"▽

Tang Dynasty Yan Zhenqing "Yan Qinli Monument"

Yuan Dynasty Zhao Mengfu "Six Bodies and a Thousand Characters"▽

Jin Wang Xizhi's Huangting Jing ▽

Yuan Zhao Mengfu 《三清殿記》▽

Han Zhongxuan "Declaration Table" ▽

Tang Dynasty Liu Gongquan "Xuan secret pagoda stele" ▽

Tang Dynasty Yan Zhenqing "Many Pagoda Steles" ▽

Jin Wang Xizhi's "Monument to the Filial Daughter Cao'e"▽

Yuan Zhao Mengfu "Shouchun Tang Record" ▽

Tang Dynasty Liu Gongquan "Tang Huiyuanguan Bell Tower Ming" ▽

In addition, there is also a calligraphy of the hundred family names, and readers with hearts can find out what their surnames look like

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