Zou surname origin and origin

The main sources of the Zou surname are: 1, from the Yao surname, Yao surname of Zou, Shun emperor, Yao surname, Shun emperor descendants of the Yao clan started to build the Zou country, is the earliest Zou country. At the beginning of the spring and autumn, zou country for cao zou people, descendants of the country for the clan, said zou surname. 2, from cao surname, from the period of warring states lu mugong set up zou country, belong to the name of the country for the clan. 3, from the Manchu, from the end of the ming dynasty female zoujia ministry, the qing dynasty after the middle of the Qing dynasty, more than the crown of han's surname for the zou, group of the group, the iron clan, etc.. The ancestor of the family name has Zhengkao father, Xuanjing father, Mu Gong.

Surname mark a person's family blood relations signs and symbols. Before the emergence of surnames, what people used to mark their family and identity. The original source of the ancient Chinese surnames was the primitive religious worship, totem worship and ancestor worship based on the Way of Heaven. The so-called Tao of Heaven is the rule that everything has. The primitive totem worship is the root of the ancient Chinese surname. A large number of ancient documents corroborate this view.

The descendants of the same ancestor are called clans. The surname first originated as the name of a tribe or the name of a tribal leader. It served mainly to facilitate the identification of the descendants of different clans in the tribe and to facilitate intermarriage between different clans. Therefore, the creation of the family name marks the transition from the group marriage system to the marriage system based on blood relationship, which is an important milestone in the progress of human civilization.