Do you know where the ancestors of your surname came from?

And the most important surnames in the whole country also have unbalanced regional distribution. Take Wang and Huang as examples. As we all know, wang xing is one of the best surnames in China, and some statistics think it is the first surname in China.

In the northern area, wang xing is undisputed dominant, and it is the first surname in 16 provinces and regions in North China and Northeast China. Jilin (11.%) and Liaoning (1.7%) in the northeast, and wang xing can account for more than one tenth of the population. Wang xing's great advantage in the north ensures its position in national statistics.

Here's a picture of a god. Let's find out from which family name developed. It should be declared that this is only the development of most surnames, not all.

Ancestor's surname is Huangdi:

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Ancestor's surname is Yandi:

Ancestor's surname is Fuxi, Zhuan Xu and Yao Shun:

Let's talk about why China's ancestor's surname is mostly next to the word "female".

such as Ji, Yao, Jiang ...

There is a theory in history that the early and middle stages of clan society are matriarchal. This is why ancestral surnames are all accompanied by female characters, which seems to indirectly prove the existence of matriarchal clans: < P > But why have different surnames beside female characters developed?

We know that primitive people will gather in places with water, because without water, they will die of thirst. The name of this river/lake often depends on the mature name agreed by everyone. Some tribes gather near jiang water, while others gather near ji water. Women have good skills, and they are a fixed population for the tribe, while men are married, and women are the main force of the tribe. Therefore, the surname is female, but it is different. The children by jiang water are all surnamed jiang, and the children by ji water are all surnamed ji.

As you all know, this is how Jiang Heji wrote it after the characters were formed.

as we all know, the population of the tribe is growing, so they have to move out. In the process of migration, China people have gradually transitioned to the patriarchal clan era, which is also the reason why the ancestors next to the female characters we have seen are all male.

When people move to different places that are suitable for survival, everyone is surnamed Ji. Everyone in this large area is surnamed Ji/Jiang/Yao. How can people from different parts of the same family be distinguished? By the way, according to the different characteristics of occupation and region, it is divided.

For example, if you are an archer, you are the surname Zhang Ji.

For example, if you paste fences, you are Fan Shi.

when you are a historian, you are Shi.

if you kill pigs, then you are Tu.

Your surname is Jiang, but you have been in Weidi for a long time, so you are Jiang Weishi.

There are too many people surnamed Jiang, some of whom live in Dongguo, that is, Dongguo's family, whose descendants are represented by Dongguo Shunza and Dongguo. Some people live in Ximen, that is, Ximen's family, and the descendants of Ximen's family are represented by Ximen Bao and Ximen Qing.

The Yellow Emperor defeated the Yandi tribe and joined the Chiyou tribe. The world was unified, and the main surnames came from this unified country, so everyone was also called descendants of the Yellow Emperor.

in the Qin and Han dynasties, surnames and surnames were mixed and called, collectively known as surnames. After the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six countries, the original inhabitants and children of the six countries continued to take this country as their surname, so we saw Qi, Chu, Qin, Han, Zhao, Wei and Han, all of which were the most popular names in China. There are also various vassal States, and there are more than one hundred forests. Such as Wu, Cai, Cao, Wei, Liu, Shan, Jin, Xu, Lu, Ji, Song, Deng, Yang and so on.

As for the surname "Wang", after the vassal king destroyed the country, he often took his title "Wang" as his surname. However, if your surname is Wang, the ancestor may not necessarily be surnamed Wang for this reason, but it may also be given a surname or changed by the ancestor. In history, there are complex situations such as changing the surname of a single surname to a compound surname, changing the surname of a different nationality (for example, the surname of Shi has existed for a long time, but in the Tang Dynasty, Ashina had a history of changing his surname, and so did the surname of Jin, but in the Qing Dynasty, Aisingiorro had a surname of Jin), which cannot be generalized, but this is the basic context.

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