Where does the word "tiger" come from?

1. The descendants of Bohu, one of the "Eight Yuan" in ancient Chen Shun, took the tiger as their surname. According to ancient legend, Bohu, also known as * *, was the minister of Di Ku Gaoxin family. According to legend, Di Ku was assisted by eight gifted scholars (actually the leaders of eight tribes), namely Bofen, Zhong Kan, Shu Xian, Ji Zhong, Bo Hu, Zhong Xiong, Bao Shu and Li Ji, which was called "Eight Yuan" in history. After Di Ku's death, Yao inherited the throne and retired for eight yuan. When Shun succeeded Yao as emperor, a large number of elders and ministers were reused, and Bohu tribal leaders came back as ministers. Since then, the Bohu family has developed again, and his descendants take the tiger as their surname, which has become an important source of the tiger family today. This origin is to read h incarnation.

2. As far as the Hui nationality is concerned, there is a tiger surname: according to the research on the Uighur surname, the tiger (Māo cat) surname is the Hui nationality "only the Chengdu tiger surname, pronounced not as tiger, but as cat (Māo)." In fact, the tiger surname in Yunnan is also pronounced cat (Māo). Hu Hui nationality is mainly distributed in northwest, Nanjing, Chengdu, Luoyang and other places.

3. Kemu people who live in the south of Mengla County in Xishuangbanna take the totem they worship as their surname. Some of these surnames take animals as surnames, such as tigers, wild cats, squirrels, otters, Chinese Pulsatilla and peacocks. Some take plants as their surnames, and there are tree ferns and fine white flowers. Every surname has its origin and legend. For example, people surnamed Hu said that their ancestors were killed by tigers. Later generations revered tigers on the one hand and worshipped them on the other, so they regarded tigers as a symbol of this clan. Kemu people also spread in a strange way. Children born by husband and wife take the father's surname and the mother's surname.

4. Tiger surnames are rare in modern times. The tiger surname in Zhaotong, Yunnan takes the word "tiger" as the surname. Most people live in Hudong Town, Huan County, Gansu Province, claiming that their ancestors are descendants of Ji. The tiger surname is located in Jinyang County (Qin is located in Jinyang County, and the capital of Zhao State is located in Jinyang County. It was later renamed Taiyuan County, which belongs to Taiyuan County, now Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province).