Why is the surname Zhao ranked first among the 100 surnames? On what basis?

The surname Zhao was the most noble surname during the Song Dynasty and was the surname of the royal family at that time. Because"Hundred Family Names".YesNorthern Song DynastyEarly yearsQiantangcompiled by a scholar. Therefore, when ranking "Hundred Family Names", the emperor's surname must be ranked first.

In ancient times, the status of the emperor was particularly noble, and the surname of the emperor was also the most honorable surname. No one dares to be the emperor of the dynasty by you, and no one does it, and does not enshrine the emperor's surname as the most noble form, so in the process of compiling the hundred family names, the author will definitely put the most noble surname in front, followed by the surname that is closer to him. This is how the ordering of "Zhao Qian, Sun Li" in "Hundred Family Names" came about.

1. "Hundred Family Names" is a children's enlightenment education book compiled during the Song Dynasty, "Hundred Family Names" is not an official compilation of books, but Wu Yue.

A book compiled by a scholar surnamed Qian in the region was used to enlighten and educate children. There are relatively few books on enlightenment education in ancient times, and most of them are the Four Books and the Five Classics.

Something like that. Therefore, in order for children to have better literacy and learn some books that are easier to learn and understand, folk scholars compiled this "Hundred Family Names".

2. The ranking of surnames in "Hundred Family Names" is arranged according to the most expensive degree of surnames In ancient times, the status system was very strict, and no one dared to cross this red line, so when compiling "Hundred Family Names", priority should be given to taking into account the surnames of the emperors of the dynasty at that time. Because in the Song Dynasty, the emperor was surnamed Zhao and was the most noble, and no one dared to rank the surname Zhao after other surnames, which was a great crime of disrespect and rebellion. Because the surname of the person who compiled the book was Qian, after ranking the emperor's surname, he put his surname at the back.

3. The ranking of surnames in "Hundred Family Names" also refers to the number of folk surnames at that time, after ranking the noble and close surnames, the ranking behind "Hundred Family Names" is based on which surnames are the most common in life, and which surnames are ranked in front, which is also to facilitate children's learning.

"Hundred Family Names" is a kind of surname arrangement method in the Northern Song Dynasty, because the emperor's surname at that time was Zhao, so the surname Zhao ranked first.

Because at that time, the surname Zhao was the most noble surname at that time, and it was a large Wang family at that time, and it was the surname of the royal family. From this incident, it can be seen that whoever holds the power can write history.

Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng Wang. Feng Chen, Chuwei, Jiang Shen, Han Yang. These few sentences we all know are the first sixteen surnames in "Hundred Family Names".

We have been exposed to hundreds of family names since childhood, and although we can't recite a lot of them, it is more than enough to recite the first few. When we recited, we thought that the surname Zhao was the most populous surname. However, it was later discovered that the surname Zhao was not the most populous surname, and the most populous was the surname Li.

At this time, everyone has a question, since the surname Zhao is not the most populous surname, why is it ranked first in "Hundred Family Names"?

First of all, it needs to be explained that the surname ranking order of "Hundred Family Names" is not arranged according to the number of surnames, and has nothing to do with the population. Since it is not ranked according to the number of people, how can the surname Zhao be ranked first?

Let's take a look at the background of the appearance of "Hundred Family Names" at that time to know the reason. "Hundred Family Names" appeared in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the Northern Song Dynasty did not unify the whole country, but only unified part of the northern regions, and there were many other regimes in the south. The so-called Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Ten Kingdoms regime is in the south, such as the Southern Tang Dynasty, which is very powerful in the southern regime.

It is said that "Hundred Family Names" was produced among the people of Wu and Yue at that time. The Kingdom of Wu Yue was founded by Qian Biao in 907 AD, and the emperor was surnamed Qian, not Zhao. And the reason why the first one is Zhao is because the Northern Song Dynasty was established by Zhao Kuangyin, and the surname of the Northern Song Dynasty is Zhao.

At that time, the Northern Song Dynasty was very powerful, and it already had the strength to unify the whole country, and it was only a matter of time before the whole country was unified. All the regimes in the south were afraid of the Northern Song Dynasty, so they put Zhao first. Next is the surname of the emperor of the country.

And the emperor's wife surnamed Sun, that is, the queen's surname. Li was the surname of another powerful regime, the Southern Tang. So that's how the first four came about.

However, no one knows exactly how the following order came about. But no matter what, this statement has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and no matter who is in first place, no one should care now. But at least we should know how the first few came about.

Because of the background of the era when the surname of the hundred families appeared, at that time, it happened to be the beginning of the Song Dynasty, and the founder of the Song Dynasty was Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, so the surname Zhao was in front.

Because the ranking of 100 surnames is not arranged according to the number of people, the surname Zhao can be ranked first.

Because the Northern Song Dynasty was established by Zhao Kuangyin, the Northern Song Dynasty was very powerful at that time.

The surname "Zhao" is not the most populous surname in China.

"Hundred Family Names" is ranked according to political status"Hundred Family Names" is a work of the Song Dynasty, the emperor of the Song Dynasty is surnamed Zhao, and the country surname is Zhao, so the first surname of "Hundred Family Names" is Zhao. However, the surname of the hundred family is actually compiled by a scholar in Qiantang in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, some people say that only the first few surnames of the hundred family surnames are deliberately arranged, and the later surnames are arranged according to the rhythm, and the scholar does not have such a great ability, so he can distinguish whose power is higher in the political chain, and it will take a lot of time in the investigation, what are the rules of this arrangement? Only this scholar knows about it himself.

Still, the book was very influential.

When it comes to the surname, the first thing we think of is the words Zhao Qiansun, Li Zhou, Wu Zhengwang, these words are almost engraved in our memory, engraved in our bones, they are all blurted out, very catchy, these words are very rhythmic, and very convenient to remember and recite, so the surname will be passed down to this day in the case of such a lack of circulation in ancient times.

Baijia surname, it originated in the Wuyue region, so it used the imperial surname at that time, at that time the king of Wuyue was ranked second, the surname Sun was the third surname of Queen Wuyue, and the surname Li was the fourth surname of the neighboring Nantang of Qiaojinyan, but I knew that there were actually many countries at that time, but scholars, and there were only so many places he had been to, so he was actually very limited in this ranking word. Some surnames simply don't take into account

So now there are also hundreds of family names, just to make the surnames more complete. But now the hundred surnames are sorted according to the number of people with surnames, from more to less, I think this sorting method will be more agreeable, because everyone is equal, and sorting by status will give people a very embarrassing feeling. The ranking of surnames in modern society is very fair and just, and you can clearly know how many people in China have the same surname as you, which is also a more interesting way to sort them!

"Hundred Family Names" is the earliest record of the surname of the literature, but also a special kind of literature, the full text of a total of 568 words, the style of the four-word rhythm, very rhyming, catchy to read, easy to learn and remember, so the hundred family surnames are often used as a common textbook for enlightenment; The surname of the hundred families is not only a common name, but only a hundred to remember, and the surname of the hundred families provides a very effective theoretical basis for the development of Chinese surnames; And the surname Zhao can be ranked first, I think there are four reasons:

First, "Hundred Family Surnames" was compiled in the early Northern Song Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty at that time was ruled by the Zhao family, and the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty was Zhao Kuangyin, and Zhao, as the national surname, should bear the brunt of the first; The earliest Zhao family was founded by the father of the Zhou Dynasty, when King Mu of Zhou gave Zhao Cheng to the father, and his descendants took the country as their surname, and the surname Zhao was derived from this.

Second, there is also the well-known Qin Shi Huang won the government, his real name is Zhao Zheng, many royal clans of the Qin State are surnamed Zhao, Qin Shi Huang is the first person to unify China, and has made great contributions to the national unification in Chinese history, so the surname Zhao ranks first, and there is a bit of a reason for Qin Shi Huang.

Third, there are many celebrities in the Zhao family in history, Zhao Xuanzi, the Zhengqing of the Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period, is a famous politician in the Jin State, and he is also the ancestor of the Zhao State; Zhao Yong, the king of Zhao Wuling, the sixth monarch of Zhao, practiced "Hufu cavalry shooting", which enabled Zhao to compete independently with Qin; There is also Zhao Sheng, the plain monarch of "thousands of diners", that is, one of the four princes of the Warring States; Zhao Yun, a famous general during the Three Kingdoms period; Zhao Guangyi, the second emperor of the Song Dynasty; Zhao Tingmei, King of Song and Wei.

Fourth, the distribution of the population surnamed Zhao is very wide, is one of the most common surnames in the northern region, according to the 2008 investigation, there is more than one population surnamed Zhao per square kilometer, and there are even more than 11 people, which is the distribution of the Zhao population in the Shandong Peninsula and the Huaihe River Basin; According to 2014 statistics, the Zhao family has a population of about 26.7 million.

The father drove for King Mu of Zhou, and King Mu gave him Zhao Cheng, and his descendants took the country as their surname. Zhao Kuangyin was the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, and it is said that the surname Zhao was placed in the first place to have something to do with it.

Together, the water cat and the wooden bear learn about the surname from Mr. Rhino. Not only did they learn about the origin of surnames, but they also got to know many historical figures.

I think the surname Zhao is ranked first because "Hundred Family Names" was compiled in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time was Zhao Kuangyin was the ruler of the surname Zhao, so he naturally put the surname Zhao in the first place, and there was nothing special.

"Hundred Family Names" was compiled in the early years of the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty was founded by Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, so it is natural that the surname Zhao is the first place in "Hundred Family Names".

It is said that this is due to the fact that the surname of the hundred families was compiled in the Song Dynasty, and the emperor's surname in the Song Dynasty was Zhao, which was the world of the Zhao family at that time, and expressed respect for the emperor in the future. It's you who made the chapter, so take Zhao Lai as the head of the crowd!

In fact, the reason is very simple, that is, because when compiling the hundred family names, when compiling the genealogy of this surname, it actually represents the royal mind, so the surname Zhao is naturally ranked first here.

Because Zhao Kuangyin was the emperor at that time, since he was the monarch, he should be ranked first, and later generations gradually got used to this arrangement.

For the surname Zhao, Zhao refers to the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, so I guess there is a certain reason why Zhao can be ranked first.

This is certainly not because of the author's partiality in writing the book, or rather by accident. When this content was written in the book, the king was Zhao Kuangyin, and the imperial family's surname was Zhao, so they would definitely be ranked first. Otherwise, the king would have cured the writer of his sins a long time ago, and there would be no such thing as a hundred family names.

"Hundred Family Names" is a kind of surname arrangement in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the author is unknown. The reason why Zhao is in the first place in "Hundred Family Names" is because the emperor's surname at that time is Zhao. The rest of the "Hundred Family Names" are arranged by the surname of the population.

Because there are the most people, there are people with the surname Zhao everywhere.

The Hundred Family Names was compiled in the early years of the Song Dynasty. The emperor of the Song Dynasty was surnamed Zhao, and the surname "Zhao" was the surname of the country, which was naturally the most important, so it ranked first in the "Hundred Family Names".

The general surname of the hundred families is from the Song Dynasty, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty is surnamed Zhao, which naturally ranks first. However, the hundred family surnames of the Qing Dynasty, because the emperor's surname is Aixin Jueluo, it is not good to rank the surname of Confucius, but in order to win the hearts of the Han people, the surname of Confucius has to be ranked first.

The surname of the hundred families was formed in the Song Dynasty, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty won Zhao, so the surname Zhao ranked first.

The general common surname began in the Song Dynasty, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, surnamed Zhao, is naturally the "first surname in the world", not because there are many people with the surname Zhao.

Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou Wu, Zheng Wang, Feng Chen, Chu Wei, Jiang Shen, Han Yang. First in line, of course. There is no new version of the hundred family surnames, and today's Zhang Wang Li Zhao is made up by the people, and there are more people with these surnames.

Because the royal family of the Northern Song Dynasty is surnamed Zhao, the surname Zhao ranks first.

The surname of the hundred families began in the Song Dynasty, and the emperor's surname was Zhao, so the surname Zhao came first.