Zhang, wang, li and zhao, money, sun...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 us Chinese name, as from thousands of years from generation to generation.Take an examination of its origin, can be roughly divided into 12 categories: surname as surname.Last name as a symbol of clan tribal clan commune period symbol, followed by people in some directly from as surname.Matriarchy clan social mother as last name, so when many surname is a female.Like her, ginger, si, yao, etc.

In order to 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.

In order 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 because of the long history of evolution, has so far are not very known.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

For art's.Such as wu, ABU, pottery, artisan, tu, etc.

The fusion of the ancient times national minority to the han Chinese surname.

Writings.finally as surname.Because given name, taboo and the surname.