Why are there so many surnames in Japan that people can see that they can spray rice?
Everyone knows that Chinese people in China and all over the world have hundreds of family names, but in fact, there are more than 3,000 surnames in Chinese, but there are many that you may never hear, but compared with the 130,000 surnames in Japan, it is really a small witch.
Before the Meiji Emperor, only nobles and samurai in Japan could have surnames, accounting for only about 5% of the Japanese population at that time, in 1870, that is, Meiji 3, the Japanese government "suddenly" felt that if the people did not have a surname, it would be very difficult to arrange household registration, taxation, military service, etc., so it was open to civilians to take their own surnames, originally thought that the registration would be very enthusiastic, the result did not expect that the people did not care whether there was a surname, anyway, thousands of years have been like this, how can one more surname? In the end, the Japanese government really couldn't stand it, so it had to issue the "Miao Character Must Be Called Order" in Meiji 8, using the law to restrain the Japanese people from having a surname, and the Japanese people were all panicked. Because most of them were farmers and businessmen, the concept of taking names at that time was a bit like the name of the character we are playing online games in a hurry, basically everyone just randomly started.
However, even if there is chaos, there is a certain law, and in a broad sense, the Japanese people rely on the following bases when they take their surnames:
1. Landscape
If there is any landscape near the home, take whatever, such as living under the mountain is called yamashita, such as the color incense under the mountain; the door can be opened to see the mountain is called yamaguchi, such as Yamaguchi Rihiro; the middle of the rice field is called Tanaka, such as Hitomi Tanaka; when you see a high bridge, it is called Takahashi, such as Takahashi Seiko; there are cherry blossoms nearby, which is called Sakurai, such as Sakurai Leia; there is a large cemetery nearby called Otsuka, such as Otsuka Riyō; there are very thick trees nearby called araki, such as Araki Mai; others like rivers, springs, islands, stones, rivers, pines, plums, etc. It also appears frequently in Japanese surnames.
2. Animals
Take whatever animals are in your home or nearby. Like Kumako, Arika Ueda, Ichina Tsuruta, as well as cow dung, beef intestines, arima, pig nose, pig eye, and even turtles (heads), these are all real Japanese surnames. Because ghosts represent longevity.
3. Plagiarism
That is, it directly copied the surnames of ancient generals or nobles, such as the more famous Ori- sweeten, Honda, Tokugawa, Miyamoto, Fujiwara, Date, Toyotomi, Takeda, Andebe, and so on. Anyway, the government promised to take it at will, so some people took a surname that could honor the ancestors of the Emperor to live a dry addiction.
4. Occupation
For example, the surname of the dog who is specially responsible for raising dogs is called dog breeding, the pig breeder is called pig breeding, and when the guard is called the guard gate, like which doraemon, it is actually the security guard of the gong.
5. Sudden type
It's just suddenly seeing what to take. Suddenly seeing the moon called watching the moon, suddenly seeing my wife taking my wife, suddenly seeing my grandson is called "my grandson" (abiko), suddenly seeing his daughter is called close relatives.
6, Chinese type
It can be seen from the Japanese characters and pronunciation that Japan is deeply Sinicized, so it is not surprising that there are Chinese surnames. Such as Zhang, Lin, Wang, Jiang, Jin, Qin, etc. are common Chinese surnames in Japan.
7. Blessing type
That is to say, I originally took this surname in the hope of blessing future generations, such as the surname has the words Fu, Ji, and Hao. For example, Mayuko Fukuda, Akira Yoshizawa, and Yaya Miyoshi, this is also my personal favorite way to name names.
8, nonsense casual type
You see these surnames will really vomit blood, such as sex demons, nose hair, bed, soy sauce, invincible, bump pills, etc., and some are too vulgar Xiaobian is afraid to write it out without passing the review..... Everyone makes up their own brains. I really don't know what these people were thinking at the beginning, and there is also the kind of person who knows at a glance that the original surname was completely because "the village chief is already urging", and strange things like April 1st and May 7th can be used as surnames. The strange thing about Japanese surnames is that ordinary countries can rely on surnames to distinguish whether you and I are related by blood, but because of this unique method in Japan, it is very likely that when the surname was first named, my father and uncle took different surnames. For example, the father opened the door to see that the river was called Maekawa, and the uncle opened the door to see a pine tree called Matsushita, which led to the children of the two families obviously having blood relations but having different surnames, or the two families obviously could not fight together, but because your family has a field, my family also has a surname called Tanaka. So the most difficult thing about Japanese surnames is not just that there are many, but that the same surname may have different pronunciations, or the same pronunciation is written differently, which is very confusing.
There are also some more strange surnames that you may not pronounce even if you have learned Japanese. Like the surname "Kojima You", his pronunciation has nothing to do with the pronunciation of Chinese characters, the pronunciation is Takanashi, Taka is the eagle, Nashi is the meaning of absence, that is to say, when the eagle is not there, you can go out to play ^_^.