Introduction to Chinese Surnames

Introduction: Cognition of History and Inheritance of Civilization

Chapter 1: Interpreting the Hundred Chinese Family Names

Chapter 2: Showcasing the People's Style and Performing the Drama of Chinese Civilization

Chapter 3: The Sea Receives Thousands of Streams of Water without Ends and the Nations Intermingle with the Great River

Chapter 4: Many Changes in Ancient Clouds and the Trees Have Big Roots and Deep Branches and Leaves

Chapter 5: The Surnames Are Classified by Levels of Prestige and the Hall Numbers and Their Cultural Implications. Hall numbering and ancestral virtues - the family name of the county prestige, hall numbering and its cultural connotations

Chapter 6 Cohesion of the blood relatives of the ties of the temple to visit the ancestors

Chapter 7 Characterization of the family culture descent lineage inheritance code

Chapter 8 Ancient cultural system Emerging fields of research

Appendix I Chinese One Hundred Family Names

Appendix II The Hundred Family Names

Appendix III Contemporary Arrangement of the Three Hundred Family Names "Zhao Qian, Sun, Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng, Wang, Feng, Chen, Chu, Wei, Jiang, Shen, Han, Yang, ......" is a catchy reading of The Hundred Family Names and is a traditional primer. The traditional enlightenment reading material, but also the classics of Chinese surnames, can be said to be a household name, women and children know.

People often say "a hundred surnames", in fact, is the Chinese surname of the general and general. Crowned with the "hundred" name, said the number of many, covering a wide range of meaning. China's vast territory, many nationalities, how many surnames, it is difficult to have accurate statistics. Passed down to the present day of the Song Dynasty "hundred surnames" readers, including 440 surnames, the Qing Dynasty, "the broadening of the hundred surnames" increased to 504.

Chinese surnames originated in ancient times and continue to the present day. In the long river of historical development, the Chinese family name development and evolution, continuity and inheritance, sublimation and condensation, formed a kind of connotation rich, complete, beyond the history of time and space, across the geographical boundaries, inclusive of all levels of society's cultural system, and with its universality of everyone knows, continuity of inheritance from generation to generation, the unity and compatibility, the systematic of the profound and profound, the longitudinal process of the Chinese civilization, covering all levels of the Chinese society. It covers all levels of Chinese society. In a sense, the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization is a compilation of clans with different family names that have flourished and prospered in various periods of history, and that have been intertwined in the rise and fall of different clans. To the blood family name as the lineage of the family tree, is specific and micro records of the family name of the origin of the clan lineage, the rise and fall of glory and disgrace and its historical achievements and cultural characteristics of the important documents, is the evolution of Chinese civilization, the trajectory of the historical development of the microcosm of the community. Therefore, the Chinese family name has become a unique perspective and microscopic window for the inheritance of civilization, interpretation of history and social perspective.

Chinese family name is the traditional culture of the most vitality, cohesion, inspiration of the greatest humanistic complex, is identified with the great cornerstone of traditional Chinese culture. The Chinese nation has always been to the children of the Yellow Emperor, the Yellow Emperor as **** with the humanities ancestor and spiritual idol. Whether it is a minority in a remote area, or the Chinese overseas Chinese, the legend of the two emperors of the Yan and Huang Dynasties is circulating everywhere, and everyone is proud of the descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties. This blood, family name as the inheritance ties, the *** with the ancestral image of the molding, the national origin of the recounting, constitutes the integration of Chinese cultural diversity and continuous inheritance of the identity of the cornerstone, which is to enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation, the centripetal force of the bridge, but also today at home and abroad Yanhuang descendants of the roots of the important basis for inquiring about their ancestors.

Today, the Chinese family name has experienced thousands of years of wind and rain, but the continuity of its generations, the vitality of the times, is still evergreen, is still the real life of everyone must have, all the time without the use of the important mark and social tools. Where the contract, signing documents, letters, communication, none of the family name as an important credentials. "Arrangement by family name", "according to the order of the family name", has become an important social occasions, family and national events, academic activities in the combination, the arrangement of the practice of the relevant people. And the word "your name", but also the first language and etiquette of the words necessary for daily social interaction.

All these are sufficient to show that the family name is not only the product of social and historical development, the accumulation of human civilization, is our cognitive history, the cultural heritage of civilization, but also our real life everywhere, everything is used in the important tools and information system. Therefore, the popularization of family name knowledge, expanding the field of family name research, has become an important part of our cognitive history, inheritance of civilization, and the construction of a harmonious society.