There are fewer than 300 surnames in South Korea, but the vast majority use only a few. The most common surnames are: Jin, Li, Park, An, Zhang, Zhao, Cui, Chen, Han, Jiang, Liu, and Yin. South Korea's four major surnames, Kim, Lee, Park, and Choi, account for about half of the country's population, and marriage between the same surnames is still strictly prohibited.
During the ancient Three Kingdoms period of the peninsula, the Goguryeo kingdom first began to use surnames in the first century AD. Baekje and Silla followed suit, using surnames in the 4th and 6th centuries, respectively. Due to the influence of Chinese culture, Korean surnames are very similar to the surnames of Chinese. Korean surnames are also divided into single surnames and compound surnames. The most common single surnames are Jin, Li, Park, Cui, Zheng, Jiang and other surnames, and the compound surnames are Sikong, Zhuge, Dugu, Xianyu, Huangfu, Nangong and so on. According to the statistics of the 1985 Korea Demographic Survey, there are 275 surnames in Koreans. "
It can be seen from this that the main body of the Samhan people, Silla, used the Han surname five hundred years later than the Goguryeo people, and Baekje was a colonial dynasty established by the Goguryeo royal family in the Samhan region, and there was still a gap of three hundred years between its use of the Han surname and Goguryeo. How can a people with such a vast cultural disparity be a people? Is it possible for a people to have a five-hundred-year time difference in the appearance of a surname?
The common Korean surnames of Kim, Lee, Park, An, Jang, Zhao, Choi, Chen, Han, Jiang, Liu, and Yin have hardly appeared in the history of Goguryeo. Moreover, in addition to Jin and Park, which are native Korean surnames, li, zhang, zhao, cui, chen, liu and other surnames are all big and noble surnames in China from the late Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties.
The Kim surname originates from Silla:
History of the Three Kingdoms Silla Benji No. 1: In the spring of the ninth year (65) of the liberation of the nuns, Wang Wen was west of Jincheng, and there was the sound of chickens chirping in the forest. Chi Ming, who was looking at it as a public figure, had small golden branches hanging from it, and white chickens chirping under it. He also sued. The king made people take the tree, and there was a little boy in it, and the posture was strange. Shangxi said, "This is not a heavenly relic." He is adopted, and long, wise and wise, and is called Wise. He is derived from Jin, and his surname is Kim. Changed the name of the forest to Chicken Forest, because of this as the national name.
History of the Three Kingdoms Volume The Second Taste Zou Ni Shi Jin Li Yi Yun Wei Zhao. Mother Of the Pu clan, daughter of King Yiqi of Gewen. Lady Guangming of the Concubine Xi clan, the daughter of the King of Shu ben, whose first Fu Zhi came out of the chicken forest, was liberated, raised in the palace, and later worshipped as Daisuke. Fu Zhi sheng shi han, shi han sheng a dao, a dao sheng shou liu, shou liu sheng Yu Fu, Yu Fu sheng qiu dao, qiu dao, then taste Zou Zhi Kaoya. There are no children in the solution, and the people of the country have the taste of Zou, and this Jin clan has the beginning of the country.
Origin of the Park surname:
History of the Three Kingdoms Silla Benji No. 1: Records The ancestor's surname was Park, and he lived in the world. ------ in the forest, there are horses kneeling and hissing, and then look at them, and suddenly there are no horses, only large eggs. By section, there are babies out. Then adopt it and raise it. And more than ten years old, the difference between the peak and the phoenix. The six parts are honored by their divine beings. To be established as a king. The Tatsu people call it Park, and the first big egg is like a urn, so it takes Park as its surname. Jushigan. King of Chenyan, or Yun Guiren.
Lee: Descendants of Li Junping, the founding father of Silla, Li Jungyong, the chief of Yangshan Village in Fuchuan, descendants of the Tang Dynasty general Li Mao, the founding hero of Korea, Li Yingzu, the founding hero of Korea, Li Yingzu, the ming general Li Rusongzi, and Li Tiangen. The Lee clan of Gyeongju is the largest member of the Lee clan of Korea.
Zhang: A descendant of a yuan dynasty princess who married a retinue.
Kong: A descendant of the Kong clan of Qufu, Shandong, who took refuge across the sea at the end of the Ming Dynasty (there were also descendants of Yan Sheng Gong who accompanied the princess of the Yuan Dynasty).
Min: The Song Dynasty envoy Min is known as a descendant of Confucius's disciple Min Ziqian.
Yin: Descendants of the Jin Dynasty envoy Yin Rui.
Xie: A descendant of the Xie clan of Chen Jun, a member of the Liang Shi clan who crossed the sea to take refuge.
Left: A descendant of Zuo Hengsu sent by the Yuan Dynasty to garrison Tamla Island.
Zhu: A descendant of Zhu Qian, the grandson of Zhu Xi, who took refuge at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Ming and Sheng: Descendants of Ming Sheng, the son of Ming Yuzhen who was exiled in the early Ming Dynasty.
Du: During the Zhenzong period of the Northern Song Dynasty, he was a descendant of Du Qingning, a soldier who fled to refuge.
Feng: During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Emperor Zhaocheng of Northern Yan was a descendant of Feng Hong.
Among the five major korean surnames, there are 106 Honkan surnames of Kim, more than 70 Honkans of Park surnames, and 43 Honkans of Choi surname, all of which are of local origin and do not have the same surnames imported from China. Of the 109 Benguan surnamed Li, about 30 were imported from China, and the 35 Benguanzhong surnamed Zheng were imported from China, and only the two Benguan of Ruishan Zheng and Langya Zheng were imported from China.
The surnames of An, Bian, Bian, Cai, Cao, Chen, Chi, Ding, Fan, Fang, Fang, Fang, Hong, Kang, Ji, Jiang, Kang, Kong, Lian, Lu, Ming, Nan, Pan, Qian, Qin, Qiu, Ren, Shen, Shen, Shi, Song, Wei, Yan, Yan, Yang, Yin, Yin, Yu, Zhu, and Hong, which are rumored to have originated entirely from China during the Han and Tang dynasties until the Ming Dynasty, and are not sufficiently verified; The surnames of Lin, Lu, Liu, Che, Luo, Lü, Nangong, Rui, Wang, wu and other surnames are said to be the first ancestors of the Warring States, Qin Dynasty, and Han Dynasty who entered the Korean Peninsula during the Chinese.
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