China is the earliest country in the world to use surnames, which dates back to the earliest Fuxi family, the surname "Feng", which appeared in history. The surname culture has appeared for thousands of years. From the ancient times of Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors , to the feudal era of autocracy and centralization, to the modern times.
Different ethnic groups and surnames are constantly communicating and integrating. Most Chinese people proudly call themselves "descendants of Yan and Huang". But in fact, even among the top 90 Chinese surnames now, there is still a surname that is very likely to be a descendant of Persian .
Short name origin of Yanhuang
—Jiang, Ji and derivative surname
As mentioned earlier, China is the earliest Short name , which is generally believed to be from Fuxi (Feng surname) , while Western and European and American countries did not have surnames 1,500 years ago, North Korea Vietnam 2 was only 1,000 years ago, and the latest was Japan, which was not available until 1870 AD.
Yanhuang two emperors , Jiang Ji , and even the popular eight ancient surnames. They are the ancestral past that most of our surnames can trace. The Fuxi family, Yandi , and Huangdi mentioned here, only some of the derived surnames can be intercepted, and a considerable blood relationship can be seen.
. According to incomplete statistics, the Jiang surname has been inherited to this day, 102 surnames have been derived:
Huangdi has 25 sons and 12 surnames, including the Ji surname.
Perhaps many surnames derived from Yanhuang are not common these days, but this cannot cut off our relationship with our ancestors.
The birth method of the origin of surnames
As the Chinese nation has experienced thousands of years of development and changes, surname culture has also been continuously integrated, developed and strengthened. Whether it is climate change, natural disasters and man-made disasters, dynasty changes, policy attraction, ethnic integration...
Every kind of turmoil or change allows different ethnic groups and surnames to deepen their understanding and integration, and also provides more possibilities for the birth of surnames. In general, the main sources of surnames are as follows:
One is: take the surname as the surname. Clan society in the late Xia and Shang dynasties, clan tribes were taken as surnames.
The second is: take the fief of the country as its surname. The most typical example is the feudal system , which began to be implemented during the Western Zhou Dynasty. The descendants of the country were fed to the country's name and fiefdom as their surname.
3: Take the place of residence or birth as the surname. For example, among the multiple surnames of Emperor Shun , there is the saying that is "born in Yaoxu " and the surname Yao, and also has the saying that should live by the Guishui and the surname Gui.
4: Take the official name as the surname. For example, the Li family got the ancestor of the surname Li Lizhen and the blood-related ancestor Gao Yao . As the leader of the Chinese tribe, he was one of the four ancient saints of Gao. His official position was the "Li" official, and later generations used "Li" as their clan to gradually evolved.
Five is: change the name and give the surname. There are ethnic minorities who have integrated their surnames, some have changed their surnames when they take refuge, and some have changed their surnames when they are given a surname by the emperor.
The others include taking the ancestor's name as its last name, ranking as its last name, etc. The Persian surname
The last name of
also originated from " Silk Road ", but the story is a bit different.
As a millennium ancient country in West Asia, Iran has a vassal state called the Padma. In the economic exchanges between China and foreign countries on the "Silk Road" have, in order to earn more wealth, more and more people are directly rooting in China.
This is one of the batch of immigrants.
A prince from the Abdul-Sabbath Kingdom even became a monk and came to China to settle down as a monk. Although the prince gave up his power, a group of ministers and guards still followed him and followed him to take root and reproduce.
Over time, time has passed, and the people of the Absent Empire have completely integrated into China and changed their previous surname to "An".
The prince of the Absolute Empire also changed his name to "Anqing". With the continuous evolution of history, people with the surname "An" have multiplied in China in large numbers and their population is increasing day by day. At present, there are more than 1.7 million people.
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