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The Origin
of Chinese Surnames
The
Chinese have had surnames long before the period of the Three Emperors
and Five Kings, that is, during the time when recognition was given
only to one's mother and not one's father. Hence, the Chinese character
for surname is made up of two individual characters----one meaning
woman and one meaning to give birth. That is to say, the surnames
of the early Chinese followed the maternal line. Before the three
dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou (2140-256 BC), the people in China
were already having surnames (Xing) and clan-names (Shi). The surnames
originated from the name of the village in which one live or the
family to which one belonged, while the clan-name derived from the
name of the territory or the title granted, sometimes posthumously,
by the emperor to a noble for an achievement. Hence, only nobles
had surnames as well as clan-names.
A man and a woman of the same clan-name.could marry each other but
they could not if they were of the same surname.
In any solemn ceremony or important celebration, the Chinese have
their clan-names written on lanterns which are hung high in a prominent
place, such as the main entrance of the house.
This went on for 800 years until the rule of Emperor Tang Tai Zong
(627 AD). Gao Shi Lian, a government official, made a survey and
found that there were 593 different surnames.
He then wrote and published a book called "Annal of Surnames"
which became a reference for selecting qualified personnel as government
officials and for arranging marriages.
The book, "Surnames of a Hundred Families", which was
popular in China during the old days, was written more than 1,000
years ago during the Northern Song Dynasty (960 AD).
It records 438 surnames of which 408 are single-word surnames and
30 were double-word surnames.
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