Why do children in China take their parents' surnames instead of their mothers' surnames?

The reason why children in our country use their parents' surnames instead of their mothers' surnames is because it is a kind of cognition of blood relationship and a convention that has been followed since the Yellow Emperor period.

It is not difficult to find that in our country, almost all children take their father's surname, and only a few fathers take their wife's surname. Such children take their mother's surname, but all children take their father's surname. We can't help wondering, why do children have to take their father's surname? Now that men and women are equal, why is there such a problem of male hegemony? In fact, it is really not male hegemony to let children take their father's surname, but a practice passed down from the past. It is precisely because of the characteristics of this surname that we can have a clear understanding of blood relationship.

Before the Yellow Emperor, it was still a matriarchal society. Because of polygamy, a woman doesn't even know who her father is after pregnancy, so there will be a problem with the child's surname, that is, who should the child take? Even if the father doesn't know who it is, he can only take his mother's surname, so all the children of matriarchal clans take their mother's surname. Later, in the period of the Yellow Emperor, due to the improvement of men's social status, the idea that men are superior to women was gradually formed. There is polygamy at this time. A man can have many wives, and these wives bear children for him, and all the children take their father's surname.

Until now, it seems that it has become a rule and practice for children to take their father's surname. In the previous society where men were superior to women, it could be regarded as a patriarchal ideology, and children taking their father's surname could reflect men's family status. But in today's society where men and women are equal, they are just following the rules of their ancestors. Now under monogamy, a child can reflect which family's blood is flowing in the child's body. The law of this surname inheritance is of great significance, and it is a kind of cognition of blood relationship. But there is another exception, that is, the adoption of the man we mentioned earlier. In this case, the child takes the mother's surname, but this situation is not much.