Chinese had a surname for a long time, but japanese surnames had to be rewarded by the emperor, and in the shogunate era, samurai had the privilege of "Miao character with sword", the so-called "Miao character" is to have the right to name, and the Japanese word "Miao character" translated into Chinese is "surname". And what about ordinary people? There is never a surname or a name, and even if there is a name, it is similar to what we Chinese call a small name.
Ancient Japanese people who did not have a surname took their surname together. In order to facilitate the management of household registration, in 1870 AD, there was an incident that makes us think very strange today, that is, the government ordered the people of the whole country to give themselves a surname.
However, due to the long-term habit of taking it for granted, and because most of the people were illiterate and could not take it, very few people responded to this call, so five years later the government issued a mandatory decree requiring the people to give themselves a surname, otherwise they would be punished, so the people hurried to take the surname, and the bold people pretended to be ancient surnames. And those peasants and craftsmen, who have not read books and do not know those who can read and hyphenate, just take a surname.
What's more, the household registration management official is poor in registering the name of the household registration, and if the family is surrounded by rice fields, they will be given the surnames of Tanaka, Tianbian, Fujita, Yoshida, or Nozhong or Fujino according to the characteristics of "Tian"; if the family lives by the river, let him be surnamed Kawami, Kawamoto, Watanabe, or Kawakami, Kawaguchi, Kawabata, Kawasaki, etc.; if he lives at the foot of the mountain, the household registrar will suggest: "Your surname is Yamamoto."
As a result, the Japanese have many strange surnames, and there are more than a hundred thousand. A Population of just over 100 million in Japan, with more than 100,000 surnames, is really eye-opening.
Later, under the increasing development of Japanese government rule, in order to show their favor, the rulers divided many "clans" according to different standards, so different surnames also had high and low "status". By 1898, Japan's household registration system law had been established, and the surnames of ordinary people could no longer be changed arbitrarily.
Ordinary people have a surname, but the emperor does not have a surname. Ordinary people have their own surnames because of the law, and their supreme ruler, the emperor, does not have his own surname, but the general people believe that their emperor is a god and not a man, and god does not need a surname, and the emperor does not have a surname.
Not only does the emperor have no surname, but even the children born to the empress and the emperor do not have a surname.
What about the Emperor himself? I also don't want to have my own surname, there is no surname, but it is possible to add any surname. In this way, no matter what clan seized power, there was no need to confront the Heavenly Emperor.
But all this is only the official Japanese statement, and it is absolutely not true. What is the real situation?
The Emperor of Japan turned out to be Chinese surnamed Wu.
The Japanese emperor could never be the descendants of the gods, so whose descendants were they? Why hide the ancestors' lineage? Common sense tells us that we only hide our identity if we come from a humble background or have some ulterior secret. Regarding the ancestors of the Japanese emperor, there is now a saying that makes them very nervous, so they are reluctant to disclose it.
Although the Emperor of Japan does not have a surname, his blood is deeply related to China.
Legend has it that during the Wuyue period in ancient China, after the fall of the Wu kingdom, Japan and the Wu kingdom were across the sea, and after the destruction of the country and the death of the family, some survivors of the Wu royal family arrived on the island of Japan. Since then, they have taken root here. With the advanced production and production technology of their homeland, they brought the seeds of civilization to the backward Japan at that time, and soon established their prestige and status, becoming the leaders of the local people. This group of outstanding Wu people flourished in Japan, and one of its branches gradually evolved into the Japanese imperial family.
During the Han, Wei and Sui and Tang dynasties, the King of Wu remembered his homeland and sent emissaries to worship the mainland dynasty many times, and solemnly declared that the Japanese royal family was a descendant of Wu Taibo. China's history books "Wei Luo", "Book of Jin", "History of the North", "History of Lu", and "Book of Liang" all record this fact.
To this day, many of the original descendants of the Wu surname have retained their own blood symbols, evolving into many Japanese surnames such as "Wu", "Wu ren", "Wu Yu", "Wu Fu", "Wu surname", "Wu Fubu" and so on. There are also surnames that evolve into "Wu" that are not visible, such as "Matsuno". In the Japanese "New Records of Surnames", it is recorded: "Matsuno, after The Wu King Fu cha, this Wu people came to my beginnings."
Although the Emperor family, which has been completely assimilated and integrated into the Japanese nation today, has no surname, it is a descendant of the Wu surname in our country, and perhaps the Emperor believes that "no surname" and "Wu surname" are harmonic sounds, although it is impossible to openly recognize the Chinese Wu surname as its ancestor, but to name it as no surname, it is not to forget the old grace! Of course, this is just the speculation of the editor, and I don't believe it.