Name and its source

What is the name

Name, is the person's symbol, is people in social interactions.Last name is that someone belongs to a family of words.Briefly said, is that the words family;The unique symbol is man itself.Usually told by the unity of name is the first and last name.

What is the relationship between name and surname

People often say: "the order of surname stroke."Surname is connected with the surname, name and surname equal, this is the concept of today, before former qin, the name and surname are two different concepts, and in the pre-qin period has the strict distinction.

Name and surname of the development and evolution

In the family, the clan, not produced ago, in ancient times, humans live in a safari with the original state of tour group.No sure marriage relationship, no real organization.After a long period of development, the original tour group developed into a more advanced form, namely the matriarchal society.In this kind of social organization, men go out hunting, while women tend to settle one party (settled with modern concept should be different), is engaged in the production.In contrast, the girl's food, but is assured;The man is hunger, famine, become "the lodger".

Because men and women must be no spouse, child, daughter only have a mother, the mother became heir only confirm the elders.When "artist gu yuan and six, not three cardinal guides people but have a mother, I do not know a father" (" the white tiger six ji tong, three cardinal guides ").The ancient Chinese myths and legends, nuwa as one of the first man.Nuwa first snake.And for the "four extremely, kyushu crack, it doesn't and cladding, loose load" and "refined five-color stone for mending heaven" (" quasi south son ").The myths and legends, reflects the primitive matriarchy times;People first snake body, may be a reflection of the snake totem.Such as center of the matriarchal clan, sons from mother and for matrilineal system.Our country's oldest surname ji, Gui, si, yao, ginger, etc., or from the female side, or containing female words, is no accident.The last name is matriarchal society common witness the tags and blood ties.

In a period of primitive clan, a clan or tribe walked out of the cave and hole center and structural wood for the nest.Nest is the product of artificial, is different from the use of natural cave and cave in, should count as a kind of "invention".And nest in the environment is more comfortable than the cave and the hole in the environment, will naturally cause other nine clan attention, admiration and imitation.Invented the first nest clan, claim or referred to as "a nest's".While the first invention of simulated flight clan, claim or known as the "suiren".

Thus, in the primitive clan "f", "f" concept is different with the pre-qin period.A clan of totem mark, of course, some may be passed down, became a family name;But more totem tag has not been passed down, the seed of clan did not totem marker for last name.

Ancient name, comes from matriarchal society, it is no big question.Even the yellow emperor and yan emperor was born in ji water and ginger, and "ji" and "ginger", and from the "female" and contains "female", so her water basin and ginger water basin may be ji matriarchal clan and jiang matriarchal breeding place for life.

Yellow emperor "ji" as the name, but I don't say "little Canon's" or "Qi's", and says "xiong" and "XuanYuanShi".This is due to the yellow emperor led by tribal groups in defeat yan led by tribal groups, and defeated the human-god, led by nine li tribal groups, and then in the "bear" this place (the equivalent of a capital later).The yellow emperor's clan tribes to ZhuZaiDe and "xiong".As for the "XuanYuanShi", say "xuanyuan" is also a place name, shi-ji sovereigns and biographic sketches of load: "yellow emperor xuan yuan, and married to the daughter of xiling, for wishing."And say, the yellow emperor (clan) for invented by a cart, and "XuanYuanShi" (an ancient curtain and former top higher car as the "xuan", car driving cattle two straight wood as the "iron").With the "nest's", the source of the "suiren" brand affinity.

Yan "ginger" as the name, also known as the emperor shen nung."The white tiger communication", "ancient people, all eat animal meat.As for the shennong, many people.Beast is insufficient, so the shennong for days, points to, making Lei Lao, leisure farming."Invention of agriculture clan, known as "the emperor".

To sum up, we can see that the human original tour group of age, matriarchal clan era and even the ancient five emperors time (paternity clan) family name and surname, different from the pre-qin period and the modern concept of surnames.At that time not only can branch, you can rename, not all is the family name also inherited by later, don't like today's surname handed down from generation to generation.

Ancient times to the emperor to the western zhou dynasty emperor, king, last name, surname is as follows:

The yellow emperor, ji, xiong, Gao Xushi.

Gao Yangshi ZhuanXu, ji, Auckland.

Yao, QiXing, schoenberg, tao down.

Shun, yao, a life, also known as yu, Xia Yu, RongYu, after the summer's.

Soup, last name, also called Wu Shang, featuring, day b, cheng tang.

Ji fa, ji, hair.The son of ji fa, novel universal changes.

From the god, the king of surnames in the visible, by name, according to the oneness and starts from the western zhou dynasty.

Chang (king wen of zhou) and zi ji fa (featuring), ji fa below into Heidi recite, kang Wang Jizhao, zhao ji wang defect...(the last king of sites for Wang Jimeng.

Last name, surname, is the warring states period gradually.In the han dynasty, most people will only say not say's surname.This is associated with the establishment of the patriarchal family system.

Ancient patriarchal clan, this is a set of method, for the ancient clan system of a kind of system.Its origin in the sacrifice.At that time, each clan or tribe, have their own worship of god, and that the god as the clan ancestors and patron saint.The offering of sacrifice god and ancestors.Is the name of temple, called ZongZi priest, priest who rule over people, according to the minor, group or person.

The zhou dynasty with patriarchal auxiliary system of herod.Weeks the leud divided into two categories, sharing, recruited.

, zhou ji, ji warlord, serve Zhou Wang clanlord.Governors in their own domestic currency, regulation office broken, for the other, the son of the other land, called besshi.Besshi DiZi for bulk, besshi for the minor, the son of the other week to patriarchal clan unity namesake, joint recruited to marriage.

Before the western zhou dynasty, there is no complete patriarchal clan.After the spring and autumn, the clan system into family system.With exquisite ancestry, CongFu ju, patriarchy, the implementation inheritance system outside of marriage and family system.

Origin: men and womenTo get married, the woman became a member of his family, the children born to belong to the father, is called a paternal ancestry.

CongFu r: married couples, front ranks.

Patriarchal: man for a long, have all the power.Father's identity and power, is passed to the child.

All inheritance: home industries, is the father to son.

Outside the family of marriage system: the father under the system of marriage, were recruited.

Since a surname is a clan or a surname, so when the clan system into family system's transfer the problem.Due to office, to society and the patriarchal and inheritance, and industry's inheritance, of the families of the clan leader or long office throughout the clan or the name and position in the family, it is necessary to others (including the inside of the outside of the family and the family brothers, Cousins, etc.) to distinguish and emphasized.This difference is emphasized, the most exact and presenting the most obvious is the last name, the father of the father of the successors (by the father's name, or surname father called, or by the father's seal, seal city for the last name).Because their parents whether belong to any clan, there will always be on his/her own name or by last name.Because of legal system under the patriarchal lineage, industry, power succession, the importance of the family was far more than the clan (primitive clan left the clan to live).Who can independence from clan survival, and only independent can reflect its inheritance advantage.So the family has replaced the clan;Clan has become a virtual things, is not very important.So, name one.

Under the feudal patriarchal system, the woman almost lost all power (not to mention privileges).So, it is a remarkable happened even the phenomenon of "fun" : a period in history, women's, can be said only men can say surname;Because men to marry, front in, the woman became a member of his family;Thus, the name of the married women also special changes have taken place.First is in itself in front of the father's name, said it was a member of his family, and then add "surname", after their father's show their original He Jiazu, as for the name, is completely ignored.

Such as: Zhao Wangshi, zhao with his father name is wang, attached with "f" is about "has belonged to the wangs of zhao familyA woman"Meaning.

For thousands of years, last name and surname of the concept, connotation and source that have changed, sometimes even the change of the "quality".It reflects the human society of politics, economy, system and concept, customs change.Even in modern times, family name, "family name" the clear stables read, "f" is still displayed its complexity and particularity.Such as in the ancient customs (some continues today),'s sometimes with the same name - "brother zhang" and "lee brothers", "zhang brothers" and "lee's brother" meaning.But sometimes it is put on married women's surname after (already mentioned in front), sometimes for women claim (for writing);Sometimes use it at the back of the kinship words according to their own relatives, such as: my uncle's (mother), the mother's, etc;Sometimes it is the famous, experts, scholars, such as text exegesis in qing dynasty historian, scribes annotation, known as "surname".Surname in society "fall" and "respect", is a reflection of society changes when emperor and mark.

It seems that today, the name and surname is not entirely.