Each of us has his own name.How is the surname?

In the ancient three generations, last name and surname isn't matter.Derived from my surname.Starting from the han dynasty, the last name mixed into one.Most modern we Chinese surname, from thousands of years from generation to generation.Take an examination of its origin, can be roughly divided into 12 categories:

1) the surname as surname.Last name as a symbol of clan tribal clan commune period symbol, followed by people in some directly from as surname.For mother surnamed matriarchy clan society, so many surname are beside the female characters at that time.Such as: ji, ginger, si, yao, etc.

2) name for the surname.As we are familiar with the spring and autumn period and the warring states period of the warring states: qi, lu, jin, song, zheng, wu, yue, qin, chu, who, han, zhao, wei, yan, Chen, CAI,, hu, cao xu, etc., are becoming very common today.

3) to city MingShi.City fiefdoms, namely the emperors and states monarch points to sharing or heterosexual QingDaFu fief.Their offspring or life in the manor was followed for surname.Such as ji fa sealing sheep herder ChaSheng manor in su (now in hebei province linzhang county west), ChaSheng offspring name is Sue.According to statistics, in city's surname to nearly 200.Some compound surname, due to the long history of evolution has gone.

4) to township, called's pavilion.This kind of situation is not much, today's common name is pei,, yan, lu hao, ouyang, etc.

5) to live as family name.This type of surnames, compound surname is more, generally with high, door, in the township, Lv, wild, officer, such as words, said different environment of living place.

6) to a word or called's ancestors.. According to the statistics from the client's name have WuLiuBaiGe, compound surname nearly 200 of them.Such as ping of zhou Lin's bastard word, their offspring to Lin handed down from ancient times.Song dai son of childe imitation stone, the emperor words father, the sun grandfather words as surname, han dynasty when the emperor father for any suspection.i instead.

7) for initial surname.A clan, by the name of brothers order list, such as the boss "or meng, old two yue zhong, old yue uncle, old four season yue, etc.The order of the offspring down as's, said in the clan.But there are exceptions.Their brother ZhuangFu, second, the ZhongShi, ZhongSunShi, because he has the crime of regicide, offspring and the surname meng, Meng Sun or last name.

8) for office's.Like Stuart, syma, customary, cisco, sheep herder, etc.Some positions as the family name surname, Dan look from the meaning, can also be distinguished, such as cadastral, suggestion, libraries, warehouse, army, kitchen, etc.

9) techniques as the surname.Such as wu, ABU, pottery, artisan, tu, etc.

10) of ancient ethnic fusion to the han nationality's surname.

11) for writings.finally's.

12) the surname for given name, taboo