Each of us has a name, and it is the most important symbol in a person. As for the origin of surnames, the earliest can be traced back to primitive societies five thousand years ago. At that time, the surnames were mostly female characters, such as Ji, Yao, Concubine, 姒, Jiang, 嬴, 姞, 妘, etc., this is because it was a matriarchal society at that time, and the mother's status was respected.
Notice that in the beginning, surname and surname are two different things. The surname originally represented the title of the race with common blood and blood relations, which was simply the clan name; the clan was a branch of the tribe, such as a new tribe separated from a large tribe. Surnames and surnames have three things in common, "blood as a bond", "foreign marriage system as a normal attribute", and "both are a monophyletic succession group".
The unification of the two surnames is that after the Qin State unified the world, "after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms, the descendants should be civil servants, or take the country as the surname, or take the surname as the surname, or take the surname as the surname, and the loss of the surname begins... The surname and the surname hun are also one. "At present, everyone's surname can be basically found from the "Hundred Family Names", but some particularly unpopular surnames do not. The following author will introduce you to two very unpopular surnames, these two surnames are very similar to swearing, but they are real, one of which is said to be a descendant of Cao Cao.
The first one: surname. This surname once burst the Internet, because after a couple gave birth to a baby, the mother thought that the husband's surname was really ugly, and hoped that the baby would follow his surname. The husband was unwilling, and as a result, the two went to court to divorce. The surname Cao is currently distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, Henan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.
The genealogy of the Cao surname shows that the ancestor was Cao Cao. In the third year of Xianxi (266), Sima Yi's grandson Sima Yan forced the Wei Yuan emperor Cao Yan to take the throne, and Cao Wei perished. After Sima Yan came to power, he frantically persecuted Cao Cao's descendants. In order to survive, Cao Xiu and his family fled to Xinyi in Poyang County (present-day Poyang County, Jiangxi Province) and changed their surname to "Cao". Cao Xiu also made a stipulation that and Cao could not intermarry.
This statement is also reflected in a book called "The Genealogy of the Cao Clan of the State of Qin", which stipulates that "Cao" and "Cao" cannot intermarry because "Cao and Cao were originally a family." There is also a saying that the ancestor of the Cao surname was King Wu of Zhou, and the Ming Dynasty official Cao Jie said to his relatives on his deathbed: "My ancestor of the Cao clan is the twenty-seventh generation descendant of Zhenduo, the thirteenth son of the thirteenth son of the Duke of Zhaokao, because the ancestor had a high social status at that time, when Confucius published the book "Yilan Cao", he understood the wonderful, the world respectfully called him the Qin Cao family, and posterity began to take Cao as the clan. ”
The second: "Dead" surname. Some people may ask, is there still someone with the surname "death"? The author does not create rumors at all, it is true that some people are surnamed dead, but this word is used in the surname, read sì, the fourth sound, such as dead Ai laughing, dead Ai Xue, dead Ai Ying, dead Ai Zhen and so on. Netizens said, "This surname is close to the limit of not being able to name well." According to the data, the dead surname originates from the Xianbei people, which is a very old Xianbei surname.
At present, few people in mainland China have this surname, and it is said that there are many surnames in Taiwan Province. We know that both the East and the West are very taboo things about death, and everyone is reluctant to mention death, but with this as a surname, there is no way.
References: "Hundred Family Names", "Origin of Chinese Surnames"