Last name originated in the tribal name or the name of the tribal leaders.Legend of the yellow emperor lived her water, for her name;Yan emperor in the adjacent to the water, ginger ginger as surname.God to dayu water conservancy, gives the surname for si.In addition, the son of the tribal leaders may also have to name.The yellow emperor has twenty five, name is 14 people, for the taj, unitary, qi, self, vines, pro, ren, xun, Xi, Ji 嬛, according to the twelve, the surname, four of whom belong to the second name.And ravaged, for himself, dong peng, the bald, preparation, cao, pour, Qian eight surname.These are some of representative ancient name.@ of

Xia, shang period, the aristocratic have surnames.The branch of name for the surname, meaning is equal to the family or tribe.Summer Palace for si surname and overlord kun I of the name, in his own name Sue, gu, such as temperature, dong, Huan dragon's.Shang royal family surname, another big overlords, wei peng peng.Shang dynasty's article, hsu, 13's, such as xiao week points to countries such as LuWei monarch.

More about the system of the zhou dynasty name, recorded.Zhou Wang as ji, Hou Guozhi jun and QingDaFu a namesake and recruited the difference between the two.To the spring and autumn period, can take an examination of ji, si, child, wind, won, self, ren, qi, Qian, cao, preparation, dong, ginger, suppress, return, mann, bear, Kui, paint and allow 22 surname.

While the zhou dynasty aristocrat surname, but only a woman called surname, unmarried woman such as qi jiang, sung hsing, qi, song name, ginger, for the surname.Have been married woman, such as Jiang Qian, LuanQi, jiang, for the in-laws Luan,'s name, Qian, qi for women's last name.At that time, a surname is not the custom of the wedding, so with the aristocratic women's last name to show her hunsband's family name is different.

Practice of the zhou dynasty, there are large and small.A building's said a small separate from the bulk (be), another portal.Establish a principality approved by Zhou Wang, QingDaFu lixin home to get a monarch's permission, called "胙 soil and of life".Aristocratic way of Fahrenheit is the following:

(1) to name for the surname.Vassal state sovereign to the seal name for the surname.Such as jin namely duke wen chong 'er to jin of surname, short for heavy to chong 'er;LuShen Xi male lu shen, name for the surname lu, "the name.

(2) to city called surname.QingDaFu and their descendants to manor called surname.Such as the state of jin bi doctor for wei manor, future generations with Wei Wei's;Quwu huan son of tertiary childe than in Korea, in Korea's.

(3) to the prime minister's.Noble and their offspring with the prime minister's.The state of jin Lin Fu for infantry organization three lines of the bank of China of the handsome, said the bank of China huan son, his son suppress XunYan said boc, in behavior's;Song kingdom in qing lasy ZiHan (ZiHan) department of city, its Sun Leqi (a beam) said the city's, is a department of the city's.

(4), as a professional's.Such as WuShi, pressly, goldsmith's, dow, wu, ABU, artisan, tao are professional name.

(5) called's residence.Their childe hence lived lu east gate, said east hence (name), the east gate to make secondary (word), is the east gate's;Song Guole big heart for the right teacher, be on Song Tong door, said tong door right division, is based on tung door's.

6 to Zhou Wang or hou monarch of kinship system is referred to as a surname.Weeks Xi Wang Zhizi Wang Zihu, tiger said its sun said prince Sue;Zheng Mu male son of sun xi xi (ZiHan) said, his grandson exhibition (child) of the said lay it down of the sun.

All landowners's for noble words.According to patriarchal clan system, a surname only includes the generation of king three generations of close relatives of the son of the sun does not belong to a surname and must be another's.These children more expensive for its Wang Fu (grandfather) word's for it.Zheng childe send word, her Sun Guocan (sub) at the end of the word "son" would be set's;Otherwise childe Fei, word therefore, sun to "therefore" is the surname.Grandfather's words as's most common, is a's money.

Last name before the spring and autumn, noble is inherited from the ancestor, so one hundred generation;Surname from the gentry and their blood relationship is close to the ancestors, the generations that is changing.

The spring and autumn period and the warring states period, with the disintegration of the patriarchal clan system, fundamental change surname system.'s beginning to change the name, such as this belongs to the si JiGuoTian's last name, to the warring states period has the surname field.Ever have surname nobility, civilians, only after the warring states period, civilians have surname, people gradually became a general term for people.The demise of the surname system evolution, reflects the noble, the rise of civilians.