Everyone has these surnames, some are very common big surnames, and some are sparsely populated small surnames. But do you know what the origin of the surname is? The origin of the surname is based on the worship of totems and ancestors in the form of "Heavenly Dao", and eventually gradually evolved into a symbol of family and bloodline inheritance.
The oldest surname in China is the eight surnames of the ancients, and it can be said that most of the surnames today have evolved from these eight surnames, which are Ji, Jiang, Concubine, Yao, Yao, 嬴, 姞, and 妘. These eight surnames are not simple, especially the first two, one is the surname of the Yellow Emperor and the other is the surname of the Yan Emperor.
The "Chinese Jin Language" says: "Xi Shaodian, taken from the Youzhi clan, born of the Yellow Emperor, the Yellow Emperor with Ji Shuicheng, cheng and different virtues, so the Yellow Emperor for Ji" Directly evolved from the Ji surname as many as 411 surnames, most of these 411 surnames are large surnames with a large population, such as Zhou surname, Wu surname, Zheng surname, Wang surname and so on.
Emperor Yan's Surname of Jiang was no less than that of Emperor Huang's Ji, who took Ji Shui (Shaanxi Wugong Qishui River) and Emperor Yan took Jiang Shui (Shaanxi Baoji Qingjiang River). In terms of surname population, the surname of Jiang has also produced a large number of surnames, such as 64 single surnames such as Lü, Xu, Xie, and Ji, as well as 38 compound surnames such as Chunyu, Dongguo, Gaotang, and Ziya.
This is why we often call ourselves "descendants of Yan Huang", because almost all surnames have evolved from these two surnames. Of course, the other six surnames have also evolved a lot of surnames, and these eight surnames can be said to be the main trunk of the Chinese surname tree.
Although these eight surnames have produced a large number of surnames, they have been lost over time. These eight surnames have gradually declined in terms of population, and they are rarely encountered in daily life. For example, the surname said today is even more sparse in terms of population, and the whole country can only be seen in Caiping Village, Caihuaping Town, YouXian County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province.
And the surname has only 300 populations, so historians have never heard of the origin of the surname, treating the surname, which is so sparsely populated that it is only 300 people, as a treasure. After in-depth investigation, it was not easy to know the answer from the two volumes of the "Five Cultivation Genealogies of the Calling Clan".
The "Genealogy of the Five Cultivators of the Calling Clan" has the first page as follows: "With Zhongkang as the ancestor, his lineage is recorded." This means that the surname is based on Zhongkang. The genealogy also records the life of Zhongkang, who was born in the twelfth year of Ming Hongwu and died in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy. The reason why I came to this place in Hunan was to escape the chaos of war.
The expert then went through the ancient historical books and found a relevant record in the "Zhongkang Gong biography": "Long and brave, wise and superior, good riding and shooting, liutao and three slightly all know, and then the meritorious official baidu kan." It can be seen from this that the ancestor who "called" the surname was really a big official before he fled.
However, although the ancestors were high officials, many modern young people named Clan did not buy it, after all, if it was in their own village, everyone was the same surname. But once you go out, it's a little awkward when people call you something, and others either think you're stuttering or they think you're shy. Some girls called the clan family once confided this sadness in the face of reporters who came to the village.