Who invented the surname? Why are there 100 family names??

1. Zhang

The surname Zhang, one of the Chinese eggplant surnames, is a multi-ethnic and multi-source surname, mainly derived from the surname Ji and the change of surname. Zhang Hui is the ancestor of the surname. Historically, Zhang Er was named King of Zhao by Liu Bang during the Xizhubu Xinghan period, and Zhang Er's seventeenth grandson Zhang Liang (255 314) established the Former Liang Kingdom.

The surname Zhang ranked 24th in the Song version of "Hundred Family Names". In January 2019, according to data released by the Household Administration Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security, the total number of people surnamed Zhang reached 100 million, ranking third among Chinese surnames.

2, Lee

According to official data released by the Household Administration Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security in January 2019, the population of China surnamed Li reached 100 million in 2018, making it the second largest surname in the country.

The second most common surname in the Song Dynasty. The third largest surname in the Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty.

3, Wang

The surname Wang, one of the Chinese surnames, is mainly derived from the surname Ji, and partly from the surname of the child, the surname of the concubine and the surname changed by ethnic minorities.

The word "king" is composed of three horizontal and one vertical, three horizontal represents heaven, earth and man, and one vertical runs through heaven, earth and man, which is the only philosophy that heaven, earth and man are under the management of "king".

In ancient times, the supreme rulers of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties were called "kings". "Wang" as a surname, that is, ** in the supreme position of "Wang"; Ji Jin in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was the ancestor of the surname Wang.

The surname of the hundred families is the first book compiled by a scholar in Hangzhou in Qiantang in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, because it was the emperor of the Song Dynasty surnamed Zhao, so the Zhao family ranked first, and the real surname Li ranked fourth!

"Hundred Family Names" is a Mongolian reading book compiled by a scholar in Qiantang (Hangzhou) in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, which divides the common surname into a rhyme of four characters and a sentence, like a four-word poem, and recites and remembers, so it has been passed down to this day and has a profound influence.

The imperial surname of the Song Dynasty was 'Zhao', the surname of the king of Wu Yue Kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was 'Qian', and a scholar of the Song Dynasty believed that 'Sun' was the surname of the wives and concubines of the Song Dynasty's royal family, and 'Li' was the surname of the ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Empress Li. This is the origin of the opening sentence of "Hundred Family Names" - "Zhao Qian, Sun Li", and the order.

According to the research of scholars with written records in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the "Hundred Family Names" existed long before the Song Dynasty. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, an unknown Confucian scholar in the Wu and Yue regions (present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province) bound it into a book.

The famous patriotic poet Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty (1125-1210 AD) first mentioned the surnames of the hundred families in his poem "Autumn Light Rain". In his commentary, the poet indicates that he was inspired by two books, one is "Zazi" and the other is "Hundred Family Names". From this, we can see that "Hundred Family Names" began to circulate long before the Song Dynasty.

It is said that "Hundred Family Names" has been around for more than 1,000 years, and was compiled by a teacher in Hangzhou in the early years of the Song Dynasty. There have been many different versions of "Hundred Family Names" so far, and the most common version has 446 single surnames and 61 double-character compound surnames, for a total of 507 surnames. It can be seen that the name of "Hundred Family Names" does not match the truth, and there are far more than 100 surnames remembered.

This book is a four-character one-line book with eight characters and one rhyme, which is catchy to read and easy to remember. Therefore, older people can still memorize it.

By the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there were 22 surnames such as Ji, Ji, Zi, Feng, Ying, Ji, Ren, Qi, Qian, Cao, Dong, Jiang, Yan, Gui, Man, Xiong, Kui, Qi, and Yun. The ranking of the hundred surnames is only nominal, although there are literally so many surnames. Because although some surnames are literally different, in fact, some surnames are derived from a certain surname, such as the surname Yao, according to the latest statistics at the Global Chinese Public Memorial Conference held in Lingling, Hunan in 2004, there are as many as 60 surnames derived from the surname Yao, such as Chen, Wang, Hu, Sun, Yu, Tian, Yuan, Che, Lu and other surnames, which are distributed in more than 40 countries and regions in the world.

The Zhou Dynasty was an important period in the great development of Chinese surnames, and the surname system is more often recorded. The king of Zhou is surnamed Ji, and the kings of the feudal princely states of the king of Zhou have the same surname and different surnames. By the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there were 22 surnames such as Ji, Ji, Zi, Feng, Ying, Ji, Ren, Qi, Qian, Cao, Dong, Jiang, Yan, Gui, Man, Xiong, Kui, Qi, and Yun.

The ranking of the hundred surnames is only nominal, although there are literally so many surnames. Because although some surnames are literally different, in fact, some surnames are derived from a certain surname, such as the surname Yao, according to the latest statistics at the Global Chinese Public Memorial Conference held in Lingling, Hunan in 2004, there are as many as 60 surnames derived from the surname Yao, such as Chen, Wang, Hu, Sun, Yu, Tian, Yuan, Che, Lu and other surnames, which are distributed in more than 40 countries and regions in the world.

"Hundred Family Names" is an article about surnames, written in the Northern Song Dynasty, which has a single surname, there are also compound surnames, the full text uses four words, the surnames are arranged, and the sentences rhyme. "Hundred Family Names", together with "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", is called "Three Hundred Thousand", which is an enlightenment book for children in ancient times. "Hundred Dolls" was written by a scholar on the Qiantang River in Hangzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty to teach students, and this book has been handed down to this day.

The surname is compiled into a short essay of four words and one sentence, which is easy to read, easy to remember and easy to learn. "Hundred Family Names" is not ranked by the number of surnames, but the first few surnames are ranked in the order of the noble surnames at that time. Because the surname of the Song Dynasty is"Zhao", the surname Zhao is naturally in the first place!

What does the contemporary version of China's 100 family names look like? Speaking of which, I have to talk about it"Wang" "Lee"The battle for the ranking of the two major surnames in China. Because more than ten years ago, China was subject to the backwardness of statistical means and technology, and the population statistics have been inaccurate, and it is impossible to make an authoritative conclusion about who is the first surname in the top two surnames in the number of surnames.

It was not until the sixth national census in 2010 that the dispute between Wang and Li was finally decided, and the surname Wang won the first place by a very narrow margin.

The first of the hundred family names is Zhao.

Originated from the surname Win, that is, the surname of Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng, formed in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It ranks 8th in the country, with a total population of about 26 million, which is equivalent to the total population of a European country.

The surname Zhao, ranked first in the Song Dynasty's "Hundred Family Names", was born in present-day Shanxi Province, and was 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, which is one of the common surnames in the northern region.

The 100 family names of the Shuimu Kindergarten Teaching Hall series.

The origin of surnames can be traced back to the matriarchal clan system of primitive human society, so many of the earliest surnames in China were next to or bottom of female characters, such as the surname Yao. A surname is used as a specific symbol to distinguish a clan, such as the name of a tribe or the name of a tribal leader.

Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor lived on the shore of Ji Water and took Ji as his surname; Emperor Yan lives next to Jiang Shui and takes Jiang as his surname. Huangtian took Dayu's merit in controlling the water, and gave him the surname as his wife. In addition, the son of a tribal leader may also receive a surname.

The Yellow Emperor had twenty-five sons, and fourteen people were surnamed, including Ji, You, Qi, Ji, Teng, Ren, Xun, Hui, Xi, Yao, Yi, and Yi, of which four belonged to two surnames.

You are a bookwriter, or an enlightenment book for children, do you dare to put the royal surname first, what do you want to get.

Something interesting is that the author of "Hundred Family Names" is such a best-selling book, and the author doesn't even know who it is. So everyone is deducing that the author of "Hundred Family Names" is likely to have the surname Qian.

It started in the Song Dynasty and was ranked according to the major families at that time, and the first of the hundred surnames was Zhao, that is, the first family.