How many strange surnames are there in China, and what are some strange surnames in China?

Updated on culture 2024-03-27
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    1- Mi surname. The surname Mi is a very ancient surname in China, and it is the ancestral surname of the nobles of the Chu State during the Zhou Dynasty. The state of Chu is a branch of the Yan Emperor Jiang, whose ancestors lived as nomads and had a close relationship with sheep.

    Mi is the common surname of the Chu royal family, and its descendants (such as Qu Yuan, Bai Gongsheng, Zilan, etc.) all take Mi as their surname.

    2- is the surname. This surname is rare. According to records, it was the surname of the distant ancestor when it was the Three Kingdoms. In fact, it was Yi's original surname "Yi", but because Kong Rong ridiculed the surname "the people are supreme", he changed his surname to a surname.

    3- Waiter's surname. It is said to be a descendant of Xiang Yu's guard. Before Xiang Yu killed himself, he told the guards to change their surnames to avoid pursuit, and the guards were loyal, since they couldn't follow the surname of the overlord, they simply changed their surnames to commemorate that they were Xiang Yu's guards.

    Bird 4 - God's surname.

    Derived from the surname Jiang, it is a relatively rare surname. Niandong early Shennong's descendant 榆罔 (yúwǎng) lost the emperor's throne, and his descendants took God as his clan.

    5- Dry surname. The surname Gan, also written as the surname Han, is an extremely rare surname in modern times. It should be noted that in Chinese Simplified Chinese, both Qian and Gan have been merged into "gan", but the "gan" as a surname should also be written as "gan" in Chinese Traditional Chinese as "Tiangan Dizhi".

    There are many ways to say the surname **, one of which is to take the country as the surname. In ancient times, there was a dry country, which was destroyed by the Wu country in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the people of the country took the name of the country as their surname, and then became the Gan clan. The second is that it is believed to be from the surname of the son, and after the comparison, the surname was changed to avoid disaster.

    In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Song State had a big doctor who was in his name"Dry"The word is the surname, also known as the Gan family, which becomes a branch of the dry surname. There are various explanations beyond that.

    6- Sub-surname. The surname of the imperial family of the Shang Dynasty. With the development of history, a large number of surnames have been derived, but the surnames themselves are now very rare.

    7- Love surname. "Love" as a surname, can be read as huì or ài. There are six origins of the surname Ai, which were mainly active in the north and northwest regions in the early days, and formed a wang clan in Shanxi after moving inward. After the Song Dynasty, it was distributed in a small amount in Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places.

    8- Ji surname. One of the eight surnames in ancient times, it is the surname of the emperor and the surname of the Zhou Dynasty. During the Zhou Dynasty, many vassal states also took it as their national surname, and the surname Ji was very common.

    After the fall of the Zhou Dynasty and the Ji surname, most of the descendants changed their fiefs to their surnames; In the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid Li Longji's suspicion, the vast majority of people with the surname Ji changed their surname to Zhou. Nowadays, the total number of people surnamed Ji is not much.

    9- Surname. It is also one of the eight surnames in ancient times, the surname of Dayu, and the national surname of the Xia Dynasty. Modern surnames are very rare, and the surname is endangered. 姒字 has also become an uncommon Chinese character.

    10- horse suit.

    During the Warring States Period, Zhao Hao, the general of Zhao State, defeated the Qin army, so King Zhao Huiwen gave him a place for horse clothing, and Zhao Hao's descendants took "horse clothing" as their surname. Later, the compound surname Ma Fu gradually evolved into a single surname Ma.

    11- Chunyu.

    Originated from the surname Jiang, out of the fief of King Wu of Zhou to the descendant of Emperor Yan surnamed Chun Yugong. The monk Jianzhen who crossed to Japan in the east is also surnamed Chunyu. Many descendants have changed to a single surname Yu, and the number of people with this surname is also decreasing.

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