Surname hide big mystery

A mystery: surname hide the genetic code

"The surname survey, the purpose is not limited to statistical number of surnames, in fact, the name is wired a bridge of cultural inheritance and biological genetic."@ of

Yuan Yi explains, China has long last name with the male, and from the Angle of genetics, only male with the Y chromosome, therefore, the Y chromosome is passed on to male offspring with surnames, as a result, people have the same last name has the same type of Y chromosome, and it carries the genetic gene.

"The survey we found that a lot of genetic diseases spread only in people with the same surname, statistics the number and distribution of good name, there has been of great help for the study of human genetics."Yuan Yi told reporters.

Mystery 2: sharing is not necessarily with home

Met Chinese, always ask name, if it is found that with yourself is the same name will feel hospitable, think two people "is a" five hundred years ago, "in fact, this is not credible, after investigation, we found a most popular there may be hundreds of sources, such as China wangs' li ', some of them are from 'won' last name, some of them are from the 'z' name, 'li' surname is its points by the tang dynasty gave the founding fathers, even in HouWei period, xianbei compound surname have to 'lee'."

But the name has become the glue of the Chinese national cohesion, "a lot of overseas Chinese to pay repair their own genealogies, they will find their roots, and in the process of their genealogy, through contacts with the mainland, also has a leading role to the local economy."

Mystery three: most connotation of Chinese surnames

Yuan Yi said, in fact, not only in China, in the world, a surname is also an important symbol of cultural inheritance, but no country name in the world heritage such as China and have a complete connotation.

"Such as Japan, although there is also a surname, but the cultural connotation is very few."Yuan Yi explanation, before the Meiji restoration in Japan, only a few a few surname, Meiji to reform, is asking the country to the people all want to have a last name, so just a few short years time, there were 80000 more than one last name, and there is no source and significance, majority is the location name to represent, such as panasonic, inoue, tanaka, therefore, Japanese scholars are difficult to relate Japan's last name and human genetics.

In the United States, although there is a fixed name, but only 200 years of history can not form a cultural heritage, as a result, the American scholar to the textual research mainly from the skin color, hair color and eye color.

In Britain, a surname is more stable, the main source is directly borrow given name, or a given name with blood relationship of affix and so on to the son of the said so-and-so or offspring, and additional status affix said before the given name.And reflect the characteristics of the place names, landscape, or the environment, and reflect the identity or occupation, as for later by a surname combined surname, despite a late Christian name, but a lot more.And in the royal family, the old USES "Edward" as a surname, later also appeared a new "Windsor".

In continental Europe, a surname is usually used to distinguish the birthplace, during the second world war, European forces have the same surname of the soldiers was divided into a group, in order to increase the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the troops.

Northern song dynasty compiled, the most widespread of, only included 438 surname;Ming dynasty compiled thousands of surname, included 1968 surname;And according to the Chinese surnames illustrated records, at present China's 56 ethnic groups is already amounted to 11969;DouXueTian composed of the ancient and modern names dictionary in the collection of ancient and modern names as many as 12000 more;The latest data a total of 4100 Chinese name