Why do people with the same surname say that they were one family 500 years ago?

Updated on culture 2024-04-30
27 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    <> we go out to socialize, we will inevitably ask each other what their surname is, what industry they are engaged in, etc., if the other party has their own surname, if it happens to be the same surname, everyone will be happy to say: Ah, what a coincidence, five hundred years ago, we were still a family. So, although he was a stranger, he suddenly felt a lot closer because of this surname that was the same as his own.

    So, why do we say that people with the same surname were one family 500 years ago? What about this allusion to **?

    It turned out that about 500 years ago, it was the early years of the Ming Dynasty. Because of years of war and famine, the population of most areas in the north has decreased sharply, and there are even no people in many places, which has brought a lot of inconvenience to the management at that time. In order to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty and restore the production and life of the people, the imperial court decided to emigrate from Shanxi to Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other places.

    At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, with the development of the economy and the flow of population, the descendants of the big locust tree who had gathered there to recuperate had already left Hongdong and scattered all over the country.

    At that time, everyone was either engaged in business dealings, or went to study together to catch the exam, and when they met each other for the first time, many people asked: Brother Tai ** person? If the other party happens to say that it is a fellow villager in Hongdong, Shanxi.

    That is to suddenly get a little closer, if you ask again"Fellow surname", and it happens to be the same surname, and the questioner will say:"Yes! Five hundred years ago it was one.

    As a result, the saying "one family five hundred years ago" became popular, which also shows the great influence of Hongdong, a place of immigration in Shanxi, on a national scale.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    500 years ago, the world's population was still very sparse, especially in China, when the surname was not as few as it is now or not much different from now, but the population at that time was very sparse, so people with almost the same surname were a family. <>

    Even if they are not a family, they still have a similar or the same bloodline, as long as the blood is close, then they are a family, which is consistent with the Chinese saying that they have the same ancestry. There are not many surnames in China, push forward 500 years, then as long as it is the same sex, it is almost a family, because their blood is similar, China has developed for such a long time, and now there are only 100 surnames, more than 100 surnames, so now 1.3 billion people, so push forward, 500 years ago, as long as there is a surname, it is almost a family.

    Why? This is not only because 500 years ago there were fewer surnames, the population was relatively small, you can think that 500 years ago, the economic development was still very backward, maybe we can't imagine the migration speed of the population, it is also very slow, so almost all the people gathered together are people with the same surname, it is difficult for them to separate, it is difficult to migrate. It is also conceivable that almost all those who lived together 500 years ago have the same surname, because they have lived together since ancient times, and no one can do without anyone.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    My family migrated from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province to Hebei during the Ming Dynasty, and it was about 500 years old, so there is nothing wrong with saying that.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    For example, at least half of the people with the surnames Liu and Li were changed by people with foreign surnames, and only some people with small surnames may have been one family 500 years ago.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    The migration activities under the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi Province, have lasted about 50 years. Larger immigrants fought a total of 18 times. People who moved to Shanxi from all over the country before.

    After the migration of the Ming Dynasty, the provinces covered more than 500 counties in 18 provinces and cities such as Beijing, Hebei and Anhui. There are more than 800 surnames, totaling about one million. That's why there was a saying 500 years ago.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    No, it has been found that there may be hundreds of ** surnames in a big surname, for example, China's first surname 'Li', some are from the 'Ying' surname, some are from the 'Zhao' surname, the Tang Dynasty 'Li' surname was given to the founding fathers by Li Shimin, and even in the Later Wei Dynasty, Xianbei's compound surname was changed to 'Li'. So the surname, five hundred years ago, was not a family.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    1.The statement that people with the same surname "were one family five hundred years ago" is not scientific.

    2.Because it is the same surname, I thought it might have been passed down by a family a long time ago, that is, the meaning of the same ancestor, and five hundred years here is just a very long concept, not the real length of time, but from now it seems that this is not credible.

    After the consultation, can you give a like, thank you, dear.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Now when everyone meets the same surname, they say that they were one family five hundred years ago, which actually has no basis, just a kind of oral language to get closer to the relationship, whether it is a family or not has to be traced back from the genealogy, but most of them are not a family.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    The same surname, five hundred years ago, was really a family, because our ancestors evolved from apes.

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    This is not necessarily, and those with the same surname are not necessarily the same ancestor.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Not necessarily, some have changed their surnames because of relocation, some have been given surnames, and there are many kinds.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    Not necessarily, history changes for many reasons.

    For example, the current surname Cao is not necessarily the same ancestor as Cao Cao.

    Cao Cao's ancestors were not necessarily surnamed Cao, but may have been surnamed Xiahou.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    Except for those who have passed and those who have given surnames, they are generally the same ancestor.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    Not necessarily, some have the same surname, but the ancestors are not related by blood, this is because for some reason, they have the same surname, but they are not related in the first place.

    Some surnames are different but have the same ancestor, such as the common surname, which later developed into the surname Hong, and so on.

    The origin and ancestors of surnames are mostly some ancient vassal states, using their own names as surnames, most of which are in the Xia, Shang, and Zhou periods.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    Summary. Not necessarily. In China, the family history that has been handed down from ancient times to the present is defined as the person with the same surname except for the spouse, including the spouse of each person with the same surname in the family history. ”

    Hello dear, I've been waiting for a long time, I'm glad to answer for you Does the family history have to be the same surname Not necessarily.

    Not necessarily. In China, the family history that has been handed down from ancient times to the present is defined as the person with the same surname except for the spouse, including the spouse of each person with the same surname in the family history. ”

    The same surname is not necessarily the same bloodline, and different surnames may share the same ancestor, which is a common phenomenon in the evolution of Chinese surnames. Although there is a tradition in China that the son follows the father's surname, even if it is the same surname and the same bloodline, from the perspective of genetics, the inheritance of the bloodline is gradually diluted.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    Looking at the region and the migration situation, it used to be said that "500 years ago was the same family" because the transportation was not developed at that time, and it was not far to walk, so it was possible, but now, there is a certain error in this sentence. Let's analyze it below.

    1. In ancient times, it was possible to be one five hundred years ago. In the past, the birth of children was basically not controlled, basically as long as the man in the family did not die, he could give birth to at least three or five, if he could not afford to raise the situation, there would be some children who would let the tooth woman sell to other places, of course, most of the people who went out changed their surnames, and those who stayed began to divide after getting married and having children.

    In ancient times, people got married relatively early, basically to their thirties, and their children got married again, so that if a person lived to more than sixty, he basically had four generations in the same house, as long as he worked hard and was willing to work, he could already form a small village. If this momentum continues, in five hundred years, there will be 25 generations, and if there are three sons in each generation, there will be more than 100,000 people; Even if only two sons are born in each generation, thousands of offspring can be produced at the age of 20. After the three generations and five suits in ancient times, they will begin to relocate, but they are basically not far away, so if they can meet them, they may be one.

    Second, in modern times, 500 years ago there is not much chance of being one. In modern times, the same surname is found in all parts of the world, taking the surname Wang as an example, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou ......There are people with the surname Wang, and these regions are unlikely to be a family five hundred years ago, because the ancient traffic will not be everywhere like this, but it is still possible to push forward, such as 1000 years ago, 1500 years ago, or 2000 years ago, it may be a family, but at that time, it was important to pay attention to the concubines, except for the one that stayed in place, the other ones that were handed down were all concubines, and it was really according to the ancient algorithm, in fact, it was not very glorious to forcibly take the cattle with their surnames as their ancestors.

    Therefore, the statement that "five hundred years ago was one family" can only be said to be a short distance apart, and if it is far away, it must be pushed up to one or two thousand years ago before it can be a family.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    The same surname is not necessarily a family 500 years ago, because in ancient times, many people would be changed to surnames, or given surnames, therefore, the surname is not so pure, so the statement that it was one family 500 years ago is very far-fetched and cannot be established.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-22

    It's good to listen to this statement, there is not much scientific basis. After all, 500 years is just a very distant time, and surnames have changed a lot in the process of development. For example, the compound surname has changed, and so on.

  19. Anonymous users2024-01-21

    I don't think so, there are countless surnames that have disappeared in Chinese history, and the Han nationality has more than 1.2 billion people in the world, making it the most populous ethnic group, but there are very few types of surnames in existence.

  20. Anonymous users2024-01-20

    This sentence means that everyone is from the same ancestor, and people with the same surname are the same ancestor, but there is no specific scientific basis, but in traditional Chinese thought, there is such a cordial concept, and people with the same surname laughingly call it "five hundred years ago was one family".

  21. Anonymous users2024-01-19

    There are many people with the same surname around us, and when we meet, people often say things like "we were one family 500 years ago", but in fact, there is some basis for such a saying. We belong to the descendants of Yan and Huang, in ancient times when there were few people, in fact, there were not too many surnames, and later after reproduction and development, there were more and more people, and the places of residence would become wider and wider, and slowly separated from some of the larger surnames and gradually separated many small surnames, although the surnames were divided into a lot, but we were actually the same big nation, and our cohesion was still strong.

  22. Anonymous users2024-01-18

    Be. Each surname has a founder, and later in addition to the family inheritance, there are also other family broad-minded use, extending to the most realistic family has a surname.

  23. Anonymous users2024-01-17

    Nowadays, many people hear about who has the same surname and say, "We may have been one family 500 years ago." Obviously, "the same surname was one family 500 years ago" is a very unscientific statement. "Same surname, 500 years ago it was the same".

    This can bring two strangers closer together and can serve as a link of communication between two people. Based on the history of Chinese surnames, this statement is not credible.

  24. Anonymous users2024-01-16

    No, although the first and last names were inherited separately in earlier years, after ethnic integration, many ethnic minorities integrated and took the same surname as the Han people, and it is no exaggeration to say that the same surname may not even be of the same race.

  25. Anonymous users2024-01-15

    People with the same surname can be traced back to the long river of history, not necessarily the same ancestor. The structure of the same surname in China is very complex and very extensive, so people with the same surname may not be the same family as it is rumored.

  26. Anonymous users2024-01-14

    No, it's just a polite remark when a fellow villager or a person with the same surname greets each other, without any scientific basis.

  27. Anonymous users2024-01-13

    Nearly three generations are not close, 500 years ago can still be a family with the same surname? Impossible.

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