Saying
A county lady who has been pampered for many years,
One day, together with her husband, I met with a subordinate official.
Here's what the duo had:
Madame: Your last name?
Official: Exempt from the gui surname Lu.
This very simple polite remark,
But it made the county lady feel unhappy,
Eyes wide open.
Originally
The lady's surname is "Wu" (same as "five"),
A person who hears that the official rank is not as high as her husband dares to take the surname "Lu" (same as "six"),
I was upset.
This series of psychological changes of the county order lady,
Being looked at by a woman on the side,
Keep it in mind.
So, when it was her turn to answer,
The woman bowed her head and saluted,
In a calm tone, he said:
"Exempt from the noble surname Qi (pronounced "seven")! ”
The above is a joke recorded by the Ming Dynasty literary scholar Feng Menglong in his notebook novel collection "Ancient and Modern Tan Outline".
This short cold joke, in addition to unreservedly showing the unreasonable teasing of the county ling's wife, is more important to let people see the other side of the "surname".
According to incomplete statistics, China has 6931 single-character surnames, 9012 two-character surnames, 4850 three-character surnames, 2276 four-character surnames, and even more special surnames with more words, and many surnames are already difficult to count.
Obviously, although it is said to be a "hundred family names", in fact, the number of existing surnames in China has far exceeded "hundred". Behind such a large scale of surnames is the long-standing development of traditional Chinese culture, the concentrated embodiment of cultural treasures, and the romance that belongs to Chinese...
Of course, as mentioned in the opening essay of Mr. Feng Menglong, the huge number of surname families brings people a lot of interesting things, pleasures and even embarrassments in addition to the long and profound history and culture.
Today, we don't talk about history, we don't talk about quantities, we just look at those years, those "strange" surnames, and behind the last names, the things that make people laugh.
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How many strange surnames are known in ancient and modern times
Looking at the 5,000-year history of China, the unique cultural symbol of surnames is actually complex and profound.
"Zhao Qiansun Li, Zhou Wu Zheng Wang..." The little dolls often recite the familiar "Hundred Family Names", and behind these surnames is a huge and leafy family map.
However, in addition to these surnames, there are many "strange surnames" that exist in the world.
The surname with the fewest strokes is "one";
The surname with the most words is "Gangerchuan Zamu Sutar only more";
The table is oriented, there are east, west, south, north and middle;
Table weather, there are wind, clouds, thunder, electricity, rainbow;
The table numbers are one, two, three, four, and five;
The animals on the table are pigs, dogs, cats, fish, and insects
……
Of course, the surname culture is broad and profound, and the above is only the tip of the iceberg for you to evaluate.
The large number and rich connotation of the surname culture, in addition to the shock and sigh of traditional Chinese culture, should bring more pride and cultural self-confidence to the Chinese people.
Each surname is the embodiment of a different culture that has been passed down for thousands of years, some of which are still shining in the long river of history, while others have long been obliterated, becoming a simple but profound stroke in the history books.
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Behind the five strange surnames
On closer examination, there are many "surname fun facts" similar to Mr. Feng Menglong's pen.
In recent years, more and more surname lovers have taken action, and after a lot of "selection", the five surnames of death, difficulty, black, old and poisonous have been ranked in the top five of the "strangest surnames".
At first glance, these five surnames are really chilling behind their backs, but having said that, there are a lot of laughable things behind these five most bizarre surnames.
Death: The Rare "Unlucky"
Death as a surname, originated from the Xianbei ethnic group during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, is a very old surname, and now it is only scattered in Luoyang City, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, and Wuzhong City in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, ranking second from the bottom among the three small surnames, which shows the scarcity of the population.
Then again, such a surname, which is not auspicious in the concept of the Chinese people, has been gradually changed to the consonant "Si" and "Wanton" as early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and has been passed down from generation to generation. This means that we are all around us. If there is a person with the surname "Si" and the surname "Wanton", then it is very likely that his surname is evolved from the "dead surname".
Difficult: "My surname is difficult, it is not difficult to do things!" ”
This is not what we usually call yang (two sounds) "nan", but is pronounced as going to the sound (four sounds) "ning". Regarding the "difficult" surname, here is a small anecdote that has happened.
One day, a man with the surname "Difficult" introduced himself, and when his name appeared on the blackboard, almost everyone's eyes widened. It turned out that the man's name was "difficult to be sincere", difficult to be sincere, and everything was "difficult to achieve"!
Seeing the strong reaction of all of you, the man sighed, forced to hold back the silence in his heart, and explained:
"My surname is difficult, not uncomfortable. It is not difficult for me to do things, and the only thing that is difficult to do is to introduce myself! ”
Such a remark directly caused the crowd to laugh. This small embarrassment caused by the surname was also resolved in this laughter.
Regarding the development of the "difficult" surname, it also needs to be traced back to the Xianbei clan in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, originally known as the "Tu Nan clan", also known as the "Tu Nan clan", and later in the implementation of the Sinicization reform policy of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the clan was changed to a single surname "Nan" and "Shan", of which the "Nan" clan migrated several times and eventually set foot in the Korean Peninsula.
At this stage, in the mainland territory, the "difficult" surname is mainly distributed in the four small villages in Henan, and the population is not large, but men, women, old and young live freely and are not very "difficult".
Black: The surname is black but very white
Any culture, any faith is advocating the light. Although the world is not black and white, the word "black" often feels depressed and uncomfortable for surnames.
"Black" as a surname is not the pronunciation of people's impressions, and after the pen is written, this word is pronounced as "he" (pronounced "he").
There are many theories about the origin of the "black" surname in history, but if you put it simply, the surname is derived from the Turkic people, the second is from the Hui people, and the third is from the Mongolian people. Nowadays, the "black" surname is distributed among ethnic minorities such as the Yi and Tujia in the southwest region, and their shadows can also be found in Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places.
Regarding the "black" surname, there is also an embarrassing thing that really happened here.
In Henan, there is a girl named Hei Zhenzhen, who has been called "Black Pearl" by friends around her since she was a child. However, although this black girl's surname is black, her skin is as white as snow, and it is precisely for this reason that the first sentence that almost everyone blurted out when they saw the "true face of the furnace mountain" of the "black pearl" was "Why are you so white!" ”
A small surname, so to people put a lot of labels that can not be taken off, but from another point of view, this can also be regarded as a "cultural output".
Old: The young "old manager"
In Shilao Village, southwest of Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong, there is a group of "strange" villagers living there.
Some of them are young and beautiful, some are physically strong, but everyone must add an "old" word when they see these people.
Yes, this is one of the four indigenous surnames in Foshan, Guangdong Province, Lao. As for the origin of this surname, it is said that it was changed from the Manchu surname "Sakda", which has a history of two or three hundred years, and in the Manchu language, "Sakda" means old, so it is not surprising that it has evolved into "old" surname.
In this village, there is a young girl named "Lao Yan", because of her strange surname, Lao Yan often encounters embarrassing things at work. Why is she good among colleagues, old lady? Old colleagues? It seems strange to either one. It wasn't until later, after Lao Yan started a business on Hankou Shundao Street, that things changed.
Generally speaking, customers like experienced people as their cooperation partners, so Lao Yan uses her surname advantage and quickly attracts many customers who "come to visit", which makes her very happy. However, it is precisely because of this surname that Lao Yan is saddled with the insult of "dishonesty".
"After everyone saw me, they all said that they were obviously so young, but they said that they were old and beautiful, and they obviously deceived customers!"
It seems that the blessings and misfortunes of surnames are really not clear in one or two sentences.
Poison: Was it the emperor who gave him a surname?
This surname comes from a story of the Tang Dynasty.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a prime minister named Dou Huaizheng, who was in power and was very happy. However, such a life did not satisfy him, but instead gave birth to an even more crazy idea - to usurp the throne and seize the country.
This matter was soon known to the Li clan, and after dou Huaizheng's bad thoughts were snuffed out in the cradle, the Li clan, in order to vent his anger and show his punishment for Dou Huaizheng and his descendants, gave his descendants the "poisonous" surname, which coincided with the "Dou" surname.
In this way, this surname has been handed down, in Taibao City, Chiayi County, Taiwan, there is such a poisonous family, after several generations of single transmission has been derived from many descendants, and now in some parts of the mainland can also see the figure of people after this surname.
Whether it is Zhao Qiansun Li's multiplicity,
Or the strangeness of the dead old poison black,
Every surname, every family,
They are all important parts of the big family of the Chinese nation.
surname
is cultural self-confidence,
It is a brilliant treasure,
It is an unquenchable lamp in the long river of history.
Those last name anecdotes that you know and don't know,
Eventually word of mouth,
Become a stepping stone for history.