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What are the surnames in China?

Top 100 surnames ranking:

Li, Wang, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Zhou, Wu.

Xu, Sun, Zhu, Ma, Hu, Guo, Lin, He, Gao, Liang.

Zheng, Luo, Song, Xie, Tang, Han, Cao, Xu, Deng and Xiao.

Feng, Zeng, Cheng, Cai, Peng, Pan, Yuan, Yu, Dong, Yu.

Su, Ye, Lu, Wei, Jiang, Tian, Du, Ding, Shen, Jiang.

Fan, Jiang, Fu, Zhong, Lu, Wang, Dai, Cui, Ren and Lu.

Liao, Yao, Fang, Jin, Qiu, Xia, Tan, Wei, Jia, Zou.

Stone, bear, Meng, Qin, Yan, Xue, Hou, Lei, Bai and Long.

Duan, Hao, Kong, Shao, Shi, Mao, Chang, Wan, Gu and Lai.

Wu, Kang, He, Yan, Yin, Qian, Shi, Niu, Hong and Gong.

People are used to using the word "hundred surnames" to refer to surnames in China, and these three words are surnames.

According to legend, the surname "Bai" is a descendant of the minister of Qin in the Spring and Autumn Period. In memory of him, some of his descendants have the surname Bai and some have the surname Bai. For example, Liezi had a student named Bai Feng, and there was an official named Bai Zheng in the Han Dynasty. In modern Beijing and other places, people still take "Bai" as their surname.

"Jia" is the descendant of Jia Bo, the Taizai. For example, in the Han Dynasty, a man named Jia Jun invented the pinball game and dedicated it to Emperor Hancheng at that time, while in the Song Dynasty, a man named Jin Jia was admitted to Jinshi. In modern Shanghai and other places, people still take "home" as their surname.

There are very few surnames. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Gongsun in Cai State, and his descendants took "surname" as their surname. For example, there was a big businessman named Wei in the Han Dynasty, a county magistrate in the Song Dynasty and a Gong family named Bing Xu in the Ming Dynasty. Modern Shangyu in Zhejiang, Datong in Shanxi, Yuxian in Hebei and other places have surnames.