What are the surnames of China people?

China has a long history and many surnames. There are 5,662 surnames in China, including 3,484 single surnames, 2,032 compound surnames and three-character surnames 146.

Common surnames are as follows:

China last name?

There have been hundreds of surnames in the history of the Chinese nation. As the saying goes, "Qian Sun Zhao Li, Wu Zhou Zheng Wang, Chen Feng Chu Wei, Jiang Shen Han Yang".

Hundreds of surnames in Song Dynasty earned 628 surnames, while thousands of surnames in Ming Dynasty earned 1594 surnames. Since liberation, there are more than 2,200 surnames in Beijing's household registration files, and there are 1400 surnames in Shanghai.

The appellation of Baijia surname originated from the publication of Baijia surname in Song Dynasty. According to the historical records of China and the appearance of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, China is the first country to use surnames in the world, but there are strict differences between surnames and surnames in ancient China. In Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, men used more surnames than women, and surnames were the representative and appellation of ancient aristocratic patriarchal clan system, that is, tribal organizations.