How is the ranking order of the hundred surnames determined

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', 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 of Li. This is the origin of the opening sentence of "Hundred Family Names" - "Zhao Qian, Sun Li", and the order.

At that time, Zhao was the emperor's surname, ranking first.

Traditional ranking of 100 surnames.

The order is Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou Wu, Zheng Wang, Feng Chen, Chuwei, Jiang Shen, Han Yang, Zhu Qin, You Xu, etc., and the new hundred family names in 2020.

The rankings are: Li Wang, Zhang Liu, Chen Yang, Zhao Huang, Zhou Wu, Xu Sun, Hu Zhu, Gao Lin, He Guo, Ma Luo, Liang Song, Zheng Xie, Han Tang, Feng Yu, Dong Xiao, Cheng Cao, Yuan Deng, Xu Fu, Shen Zeng, Peng Lu.

The order of ranking of new and old surnames

The top 64 traditional surnames are Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou Wu, Zheng Wang, Feng Chen, Chuwei, Jiang Shen, Han Yang, Zhu Qin, You Xu, He Lu, Shi Zhang, Kong Cao Yanhua, Jin Wei, Tao Jiang, Qi Xie, Zou Yu, Bai Shui, Dou Zhang, Yunsu Pan Ge, Xi Fan, Peng Lang, Lu Wei, Changma, Miao Fenghuafang, Yu Ren, Yuan Liu, and Yu Bao Shitang.

In 2020, the ranking of the new 100 surnames is: Li Wang, Zhang Liu, Chen Yang, Zhao Huang, Zhou Wu, Xu Sun, Hu Zhu, Gaolin, He Guo, Ma Luo, Liang Song, Zheng Xie, Han Tang, Feng Yu, Dong Xiao, Cheng Cao, Yuan Deng, Xu Fu, Shen Zeng, Peng Lu, Su Lu, Jiang Cai, Jia Ding, Wei Xue, Ye Yan, Yu Pan, Du Dai, Xia Zhong, Wang Tian, Ren Jiang, Fan Fangshi, Yao.

The new hundred family names are arranged according to the number of people, Wang Li Zhang Liu has a long history, and for many years it has been among the best, Wang.

In 2018, the population has exceeded 100 million, and it has a long history, as early as thousands of years ago, there was a Wang family.

The ranking of the 100 surnames is: Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu, Zhou, Xu, Sun, Ma, Zhu, Hu, Guo, He, Lin, Gao, Luo, Zheng, Liang, Xie, Song, Tang, Xu, etc.

The ranking of the 100 surnames is: Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu, Zhou, Xu, Sun, Ma, Zhu, Hu, Guo, He, Lin, Gao, Luo, Zheng, Liang, Xie, Song, Tang, Xu, Deng, Han, Feng, Cao, Peng, Zeng, Xiao, Tian, Dong, Pan, Yuan, Cai, Jiang, Yu, Yu, Du, Ye, Cheng, Wei, Su Shuchang, Lu, Ding, Ren, Lu, Yao, Shen, Zhong, Jiang, Cui, Tan

Lu, Fan, Wang, Liao, Shi, Jin, Wei, Jia, Xia, Fu, Fang, Zou, Xiong, Bai, Meng, Qin, Qiu, Hou, Jiang Yin, Xue, Yan, Duan, Lei, Long, Li, Shi, Tao, He, Mao, Hao, Gu, Gong, Shao, Wan, Qin, Wu Xunsu, Qian, Dai, Yan, Tuan Luoou, Mo, Kong, Xiang, Tang, Chang, Wen, Kang, Shi, Wen, Niu, Fan, Ge, Xing, An, Qi, Yi, Qiao, Wu, Pang, Yan

Ni, Zhuang, Nie, Zhang, Lu, Yue, Zhai, Yin, Zhan, Shen, Ou, Geng, Guan, Lan, Jiao, Yu, Zuo, Liu, Gan, Zhu, Bao, Ning, Shang, Fu, Shu, Ruan, Ke, Ji, Mei, Tong, Ling, Bi, Shan, Ji, Pei, Huo, Tu, Cheng, Miao, Gu, Sheng, Qu, Weng, Ran, Luo, Lan, Lu, You, Xin, Jin, Ou, Yang, Guan, Chai, Meng, Bao, Hua, Yu.

The principle of ranking the surnames of the ancient family

The order of the surnames in the "Hundred Family Names" is not based on the number of people, but on political status.