The combination of the surnames

Grant's system of loose since the western zhou dynasty, led's development speed.The spring and autumn period and the warring states period, the aristocracy, civilians are racing to independence, in addition to the bottom of society people, the past QingDaFu, as well as the emerging of land owners and businessmen have a surname.In this way, the state's old system have been completely destroyed.Small Numbers of "family name" are overwhelmed with a large number of "f", replace the position of the past last name.At the same time, the surname and name the basic pattern has also started to prevail.As a family as the basic unit of the patriarchal society, whether it's family name or surname, in addition to use as a sign of his family, the social function of the other or die, or weakened, last name and thus become an inevitable historical trend that surname irrespective, they also don't have much difference.After the warring states period, and everyone has a name, or says it is everyone's, called a name or a surname.Surname and, at the beginning of the inevitable "family name" and "surname" mixed without other phenomenon, this in many of the ancient literature, such as the wang, surnamed zhang, Scott, surnamed liu, etc.Gu yanwu "original surname" also said: "since the qin dynasty, for's name, with the surname said male, and zhou wu."It should be said that the old system was damaged from a certain sense, the progress of the society, and accompanied by the destruction of the old system by the emergence of "surname don't don't" phenomenon is normal.

To name one of the warring states period, the Chinese surnames can be divided into two parts;One is follow the old family name or surname, 2 it is to set up new's.After the qin and han dynasties, China's surname system basically stable, everyone has a family name, last name is the major source of the pre-qin's.Since then, China's name never changing ups and downs.Because China is a typical patriarchal society, blood relationship is still to maintain the important link of social life, the last name is still a family stretches of important symbol, when people after the surname have autonomy, while inheriting the surname also get the corresponding reinforcement.Anyone, in other words, inherited surname former generations, had it not been for very special reasons, don't give it up easily.Because give up her own name, means the interruption of blood ties.Childless or have women have no son, in ancient Chinese mind is "broken iron" or "time".To give up their surname, in ancient Chinese mind also means "broken iron" or "time".So, even now, with the progress of the society, people have been greatly downplayed the patriarchal concept and weaken, still consciously or unconsciously to maintain his family's sacred symbol, there are very few in named their children their surnames, and use the name of others, or to invent a surname.Qin and han dynasties formed the pattern of China's last name, but also in our country with a long history and cultural traditions continue for a long time.

Replaced after the qing dynasty, in the feudal society of China, the economic and political power monopoly by every person, no longer exists by conferring the emperors, has an independent political power in the warring states (the han dynasty, once appear feudal system of the reactionary, but was soon DangChu, feudal system after the qin dynasty was just a flash in the pan), power is no longer rely on its tide autocratic, but by the national administrative system, that is to say, the family of power and separation, therefore, originally as a symbol of power "surname" by this time has lost the significance.It besides as a symbol of lineage, just don't have symbolic power of the work, that is to say,'s foundation to name, or last name, last name and the.After the qin dynasty, emperor still given name is happening, but at this moment of surname is greatly different from the pre-qin gives the surname, given name is not like grant's accompanied by given land, power, etc, but merely gave a a family name, which allows it to use a word for the name.Therefore, after the qing dynasty's given name is mainly has the meaning of a symbol, honor, and no longer have as given the pre-qin's actual value, is a kind of spirit to encourage, rather than material rewards.

Given after the qin dynasty to give a name to the pre-qin's another difference is that, given the pre-qin's lead to an unprecedented's number, such as given shun the dragon officer training for Huan authentication, it marked the Huan dragon clan and Huan child size;While after qin dynasty's given name is just a ready-made name given to a person and their descendants, and this guy has a name, for example, the son of heaven to his cronies may be his last name, approved the latter with his surname.After the qin dynasty, therefore, gives the name does not lead to a new name, and just leads to a change in some of the family name.

Qin dynasty after the given name is the activities of the most common is the emperor to reward their last name to liegeman, as a reward for the latter, and detained over the emperor's name, although had to abandon the ancestors surnames, at the risk of proselytize ungrateful, but with reaching his royal family, but is still blessing of families and the benefit of future generations.

After the tang dynasty imperial family name is lee, tang founding, many follow the lee family farmland active subjects to give family name is lee.Such as king YanJun Luo Yi, Wu Wangdu battle, and Bing yuan lee, Hu Daen, QiZi and, Dong Zhongchen etc, were given name and surname lee, then, that several teams, du, mail, the hu family name after the surname li.

Such as the hero in tianbao years Zhang again, because of the troops stationed rebellion, hence saying xuan zong said that "the shame and the inverse minister namesake", xuan zong jia its loyalty and integrity, to grant the "migration JingZhao, for family to lee's".Ann heavy Zhang family therefore to the surname of li.

Great period of the tang dynasty, the Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges, there is no lack of curtain datang prosperous, look unto him with the tang dynasty, because of its mixed color name surname is out of step with the han nationality, they tend to Chinese surname, open the door and Tang Tianzi, such as for some defected yield to the alien leader gives the family name is lee.Such as when the emperor taizong, xianbei red pull monarch came to tang, emperor taizong had given surname lee;When emperor taizong also is loose this desert DouDuFu with qidan chief cook, and given the last name is lee.Li now become one of a handful of most popular in China may be as many recruited to li in the tang dynasty.

The song dynasty emperor in the given name is also very generous.Song of god, the river west Francisco wood collection rate, China's two state take refuge in the song dynasty, he had given himself and all his brother are surnamed zhao, and given respectively called zhong, afterwards, jiyang loyalty, salt, alcohol, loyalty, loyalty, etc., the given name is visible in order to obtain loyalty by the given name.In addition, western qiang fall, who joins in the song dynasty, song dynasty also gives the name of Scott, ychao is then set up xixia kingdom is followed by people, xixia emperors to Zhao Weixing.

In the Ming dynasty emperor zhu, they also take zhu as "intangible assets" to "buy off" everywhere, such as the mongols would once have to give zhu.Huang surname indeed has the very good "brand effect", but also can't abuse, otherwise you will depreciate, because content with rare for expensive, if all the people name is huang surname, huang family name it is not as much.Therefore, the emperors also often take other surnames reward to subjects, and doesn't always go to imperial family name.Such as han fu jia, the original is not helped, han ZuLiuBang out individuals to praise for his wing han credit, because of the given name is rotary's.West ham star li ling seed yield to the official, because is in the house by wei emperor summoned, c c reason given name.Through what the father of tang dynasty, five dynasties emperor's member's mid-levels, surnamed liu, originally from liang wei, due to its virtues like WuYuan when the warring states period, hence given name for member, followed by people for member name.The prime minister of tang dynasty huihe kingdom original call love evil, not in the tang dynasty emperor gave its name is love, hong shun.When the later tang dynasty of qidan and the law to take refuge in the later tang dynasty, li siyuan given name is Dan east, then gives the surname li.Famous navigator and explorer zheng he in the history of our country, this is not the surname zheng, and the name of the horse, is credited with yuan dynasty of Arab descent Shan butyl seed, zheng he was Ming army captive people do the eunuch palace before the surname zheng.When the father of the mongols to take off the huan zhu yuanzhang joins the Ming dynasty, zhu yuanzhang had given its name is xue, huan later the officer and must give called Lin, Xue Bin after the death of his father and the son of the emperor Zhu Dici called ribbon.Mongol tamerlane, was written and directed to defect, Ming emperor has given its name is wu, given name done honestly.Mongolian prince was also to defect from emperor gave its name is Kim, called loyalty.

Caused by the given name, a lot of family name change, make the posterity's family name is different from the ancestors, which is based on surname must pay attention to when roots of progenitor, because now surname lee's people may not be before the tang dynasty surnamed li, they not capitalists in more than one thousand years ago, some may have originated from the western minority descent.All in all, the phenomenon of given name and surname, in the long history of development, has experienced intricate changes surname, or recruited blend, differentiation, or sharing surname history is not as people often believe it is a direct line of succession of history, people meet for the first time in sharing with strangers, always can't help to say "is a" five hundred years ago, things or not necessarily.