What is a surname and what is the difference between a surname and a given name?

A surname is a noun. It's the last name.

A name is a name.

1. Scope of coverage.

The surname generally refers to the "surname", and the first name can refer to the "first name" or "surname + first name", that is, the first name can include the surname, but the surname does not include the first name.

2. Continuation.

After the surname is generated, it is passed down from generation to generation, and generally does not change, which is relatively stable; If the name refers to the "name", it is generally the title of the person and will not be passed on, and the descendants will generally avoid the name of the elders.

3. Possession of objects.

Ordinary people have surnames, things don't have surnames, things only have names.

4. The number of words is different.

Han Chinese surnames generally have only two word counts, single and double; However, the number of names will be more, as long as the total number of "surname + name" is less than 6 Chinese characters, so the number of words in the name can be as many as 5.

Clan stands for status. Xuanyuan means proficient in car-making technology, Gaoyang means living in Gaoyang's fiefdom, and Zhurong means holding Zhurong's official position. The ancient "clan" is to distinguish ethnic groups, representing its characteristics that are different from others, and will change with the world, such as Shaohao's clan, from Qingyang clan to Jintian clan, representing the change of fief from Qingyang to Jintian.

The surname represents the bloodline. This ancient and modern has not changed much, and the current "surname" still represents the inheritance of blood, and the surnames began to merge during the Warring States period, and the clan slowly withdrew from the historical stage and was annexed by the surname. For example, Confucius, in fact, is Confucius, the surname of the child.

Confucius does not have the surname Confucius, but after the merging of surnames, now everyone basically thinks that Confucius is surnamed Confucius.

name on behalf of oneself. The name is unique to itself, but there are too many duplicate names, so there are words. The word is an explanation of the name and represents why the name was taken.

For example, the same name is Fei, Zhang Fei is Zhang Yide, Yue Fei is Yue Pengju, Yide means that you want to fly to the sky to have ethics and virtue, Pengju means that you want to fly to the sky to have the posture of raising wings and fighting. For example, a person named Zhao Fang, the word may be Chengyou, which means God blesses, and such a word is likely to be born weak and defective or something; The word may be Cheng Yu, which means that the flawed jade has become a beautiful jade, such a word is likely to be naughty or mischievous when I was a child, I hope it will be good in the future; The word may be non-Yu, which means that it is not a beautiful jade, or even cover Yu, which means that it is jealous and jealous, so there are very few words, but there are also, almost equivalent to scolding and disdainful in person, generally looking at you Extremely unpleasant to the teacher, the official or even the emperor You can't refuse to give you the word.

Here are some of the surnames:

1. The surname Sun, one of the Chinese surnames, is a multi-ethnic, multi-source surname, according to historical records, mainly derived from the surname Ji, the surname Mi and the change of surname, etc., the earliest can be traced back to King Wen of Zhou more than 3000 years ago, Sun Yi of the Spring and Autumn Period is the ancestor of the surname Sun of Ji, as of 2012, the surname Sun ranks 12th in the ranking of Chinese surnames by population.

2. The surname Qian, one of the Chinese surnames, is ranked second in the Song version of "Hundred Family Names". The surname Qian comes from the surname Peng, which is an official surname. In 2013, the population with the surname Qian was about 2.49 million, ranking 93rd in the country.

The population surnamed Qian is mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Anhui, Hubei, Yunnan and other provinces and cities.

3. The surname Yang, one of the Chinese surnames, is said to have originated from the Yang Kingdom (now Hongdong County, Shanxi Province) in the Spring and Autumn Period, and is the national surname of the Sui Dynasty and Southern Wu. Yang Boqiao is the ancestor of the surname.

4. The surname Feng is a multi-ethnic and multi-origin ancient surname, ranking 27th in the list of surnames in Chinese mainland today, 9th in the Song version of "Hundred Family Surnames", 27th among Chinese surnames in order of population, and 72nd in Taiwan Province, with a population of about 8.615 million, accounting for about about the national population.

5. The surname Chen, one of the Chinese surnames, is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-origin surname, mainly derived from the surname of the concubine and the change of the surname of ethnic minorities. Chen Hugong is the ancestor of the surname Chen. According to data from the Household Administration Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security in January 2019, the surname Chen ranked fifth in 2018, with a registered population of 100 million.

The difference between surnames is: different origins, different meanings, and different uses.

1. Different origins: the origin of surnames and surnames is very different, the surname of Yu Lack originated in the matriarchal clan society of ancient times in China, its history is much older than that of the clan, and the early surnames are also next to the female characters. The clan blind is slowly evolved from the surname, and its history is much shorter than the surname.

2. Different meanings: surnames are usually used to distinguish bloodlines, when two people have the same surname, it means that they come from the same family, and there is a celebration and a confirmed blood relationship. The clan represents which branch of a family a person belongs to, and through the clan, you can find your ancestors more accurately.

3. Different use: surnames are also very different in the use of surnames, taking ancient women as an example, ancient women have the custom of following their husband's surname, but women only change their names, and the surnames they use all their lives are the same, using their father's name before marriage, and changing it to their husband's name after marriage.

1. The surname Zhao.

The surname Zhao ranked first in the Song Dynasty's "Hundred Family Names", and in 2006, the new Hundred Family Names ranked eighth. The birthplace is in present-day Shanxi Province, and it was once one of the six secretaries of the Jin Kingdom. The founding father of King Mu of Zhou was the ancestor of the Han surname Zhao, with a total population of about 26.7 million as of 2014, and the surname Zhao is one of the common surnames in the northern region.

2. The surname of Qian. The surname Qian, according to historical records, can be traced back to more than 3,000 years ago in the period of King Wen of Zhou, the Quanfu sergeant Qian Fu (the descendant of the ancestor of the Great Peng Kingdom) as the ancestor of the surname. The surname Qian is ranked second in the Song version of "Hundred Family Names".

3. Sun's surname. The surname Sun, according to historical records, is mainly derived from the surname Ji, the surname of Concubine and the surname Yao, the surname Mi and the surname of ethnic minorities, etc., which can be traced back to King Wen of Zhou and Chen Hugong more than 3,000 years ago, and Sun Yi of the Spring and Autumn Period and Sun Shu of Qi were the ancestors of the surname. Sun Yi is the ancestor of Ji's surname Sun, and Sun Shu is the ancestor of the concubine's surname Sun. As of 2012, the surname Sun ranked 12th in the ranking of Chinese surnames by population, accounting for about about the total population of China.

4. The surname is Li. According to the statistics of the sixth national census in 2010, the population of Li in Chinese mainland is as high as more than 95 million, accounting for about the national Han population. In Chinese history, there are more than 60 people surnamed Li who are called emperors, and they have successively established regimes such as Dacheng, Xiliang, Liang, Wu, Wei, Tang, Chu, Later Tang, Southern Tang, Dashu, Western Xia, and Dashun.

5. The surname Zhou. The surname Zhou, one of the top ten surnames in China, ranks 5th in the "Hundred Family Surnames", the surname Zhou is a multi-ethnic and multi-source ancient surname dominated by the Han population, mainly derived from the surname Ji, Taiwan's indigenous people, Yao people, Dongxiang people, Yi people, Brown people, Bai people, Mongolian, Hui, Tujia, Baoan, Li, Zhuang, Qiang, Korean and other ethnic groups have this surname.

130 First of all, we should be cautious about naming it. Chinese characters pay attention to the aura of elephants, and different Chinese characters have different aura, so after the combination of the ruler of the text and the name, different personal images can be established.

7924 its mausoleum bends, the frequency of use of the name is very high, a good name suitable for oneself, but also will play a very big role in their own life for potato acres, the name is like its person, the name is right.

Shenyang Zhouyi Research Association. The book can be read "The True Interpretation of Naming - Analysis of the Origin of Chinese Name Studies".

7443 Finally, a professional naming team with better experience and an easy-to-learn cultural foundation. The foundation of the four-pillar numerology, the foundation of Chinese characters and names, and so on. It is advisable to choose a professional team and teachers.

The above paragraph is: the Buddha's heart responds.

The big characters are: Buddha.

The inscription is: Zilaizi.

The surname of the Han people.

The second half of the hundred family surnames are basically compound surnames, Sima, Shangguan Zhizao, Ouyang, Wenren, Dongfang, etc., are all original to Han Chinese, Murong, Yelu, Wanyan, these are the ethnic minorities who have been dressed up and integrated into the Han nationality at all stages of history.

The longest name is usually 4 characters (compound surname + two-character name), but there are also people who break this tradition, and the census found that the Han people with the longest name have 19 characters, and they do not disclose the specific name.