Qin Shi Huang, the "Emperor of the Ages", is a historical figure that I personally like very much, and anyone who reads a little history should be familiar with him, right? History books also have mixed reviews of him, in fact, most well-known figures in history have experienced this, let alone Qin Shi Huang? Right?
"One Emperor of the Ages" Qin Shi Huang
Let's not talk about anything else, let's talk about it today, Qin Shi Huang's name, Qin Shi Huang's surname "Win", name "Zheng". Are you a little strange and curious about this "winning" surname? After all, this surname is really rare in history, up and down five thousand years, only his Qin Shihuang surname "Win" in history, the others are some of the "Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li" and other hundred family names that we often see. Not to mention now, let's say that in the history of thousands of years, except for Qin Shihuang's family, no one will have this "winning" surname, right? So why did this "winning" surname disappear after Qin Shi Huang in history?
Genealogy of the Qin clan
We have consulted a lot of relevant historical materials to know the reason for this matter, in fact, the surname of the first emperor was replaced by another surname, what is the matter? This has to start with the ancient matrilineal society, the surname is the product of the matrilineal society, and the clan is the product of the transition to the patrilineal society, when men were called "clan" and women were called "surname". Later, it was called "surname" when combined. Let's look at the old "Hundred Family Names" to find the eight surnames of the ancient times, and these eight surnames all carry the word "female" next to them, right? This actually shows that the origin of "surname" is in the matrilineal society, and the later patrilineal society, that is, the clan society stage, "clan" also began to appear, until the end, people in order to facilitate memory, "surname" and "clan" together, so this has become the name that everyone has now.
Patrilineal clan primitive tribe
At that time, the ruling family of the Qin State was the surname Zhao, at that time, if Huan Zheng appeared in public, it should be called Zhao Zheng, but in the later Han Dynasty, people began to gradually blur the surname, and the surname was indistinguishable, and in the later circulation, people mixed the surname of Qin Shi Huang together, so they gradually called him Huan Zheng, not Zhao Zheng. However, the surname "Win" still exists in China. They are distributed in today's Yunnan, Jiangsu and other places, and many of these small groups of people are gradually changed by descendants, and it is said that these people with the surname "Win" are all Guanzhong ancestors who stayed behind when the first emperor sent the general Zhao Tuo to the south to conquer Baiyue. So now this "winning" surname is very, very rare, it already belongs to a relatively niche surname. That's why we can hardly find a name with the word "win" now.
Win surname distribution