Little Farmer Big Star

? Cen Geng's explanation officially started.

He said that in ancient Chinese society, the social and geographical environment was very complex, people were scattered in various places, and in order to facilitate mutual connection, distinction and communication, people in each local group gradually formed a code name with their own characteristics - surname .

The mysterious origin of surnames has become a unique treasure in Chinese culture.

Therefore, the origin of the surname can be traced back to the primitive society five thousand years ago.

Surnames are divided into surnames and surnames, surnames and surnames are the symbols of a tribe, surnames are the main body, and surnames are branches.

In primitive society, the earliest function of "surname" was to distinguish human groups.

Why distinguish human groups?

That's because in the matriarchal clan era, with the continuous development of society and productivity, people of the same blood gathered together to produce and live together, forming the first clan.

In the social era when tribes were formed, new understanding of marriage gradually came into being. It was found that the offspring produced by close relatives of the same blood were often unhealthy, and they gradually realized that marriage should take place between non-close relatives.

Therefore, the marriage between men and women of various ethnic groups has gradually entered the interracial marriage from the most primitive chaos.

And because it was a matriarchal society at the beginning, many people only knew their mothers, but not their fathers. The children born from the mating of men and women can only be raised by the clan where the mother belongs, thus causing every tribal clan. All of them are a first-grandmother phenomenon.

Later, with the continuous development of history, the continuous progress of productive forces and the continuous improvement of production levels, people gradually have a fixed place of residence, in order to meet the needs of production and life and the need for marriage between men and women, and also for each tribe to interact with each other. Distinguish, thus forming the original code name - surname.

This is how the "surname" came into being.

After the "surname" came into being, one of its main functions was to identify the descendants of different races in the tribe and to facilitate intermarriage between different races.

Therefore, the emergence of surnames marks the transition of people from group marriages to blood-related marriages, and is an important milestone in the progress of human civilization.

The surname is the main body and represents the origin of the ancestral clan, so the surname can never be changed. There is a folk proverb in our country to indicate that the surname cannot be changed.

"A man does not change his name when he walks, and he does not change his surname when he sits." The surname passed down from the ancestors has basically not changed from generation to generation.

Surnames originated in the primitive matrilineal society, so at that time "surnames" were always next to female characters.

Among them, eight surnames are the most famous, namely: Ji, Yao, Gui, Si, Jiang, Ying, Shan, and Yu.

We call it the eight great surnames in ancient times.

These eight surnames are the origin of all surnames and are also treasures. Most of our current surnames are evolved from these eight surnames.

"Eight surnames in ancient times?" Almost all parents and netizens heard about it for the first time, which made them faintly excited, especially parents and netizens of these eight castes.

"Wow haha! My surname is Gui. There are very few people with this surname, and it's a bit uncommon. Many people don't know it and don't know how to pronounce it? I've said it countless times, 'gui, pronounce gui.' This made me quite I'm a little depressed. Now I know that our surname is one of the eight great surnames in ancient times, and it is the origin of the surname, and suddenly I feel so awesome."

"My surname is Si, this surname is also uncommon, and many people do not know it. The number of people with the surname Si in the whole country is estimated to be less than the number of people with the surname of Gui. It seems that there are only less than 5,000 people, which is an absolute small surname. However, there are no surnames. When I thought that it was one of the eight great surnames in ancient times, I suddenly felt so arrogant."

"My surname is Jiang. I only know that this surname had a great character in ancient times, called Jiang Ziya. Now I know that it was one of the eight great surnames in ancient times. Great! Great!"

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The parents and netizens of the eight major surnames are very excited. These eight major surnames are considered minor surnames today, especially the uncommon surnames such as Gui, Si, Ying, Si, and Yu, but they did not expect that these surnames are actually the oldest surnames. They have a history of four or five thousand years, which makes the parents and netizens of these surnames feel that their surnames are too awesome.

All very excited.

And Ceng Geng's explanation continues.

Just finished talking about the origin of "surname", let's talk about the origin of "shi" now.

A surname is a branch of a surname, derived from a surname.

We all know that primitive society started out as a matriarchal society, but then gradually developed into a patriarchal society.

This is because with the continuous development of productive forces, stronger and more powerful men have gradually become the main producers of society.

In a patrilineal society, people's productivity has been greatly improved, and the average life expectancy has also been extended. In addition, the birth rate has greatly increased, and the death rate has gradually decreased. This makes the number of people in the tribe more and more, and the natural environment in the area where the tribe is located. The ecological environment is gradually insufficient to support more population development.

Therefore, some people migrated to other areas and formed several new tribes.

The original tribe and a number of new tribes have the same surname and are indistinguishable.

In order to distinguish these tribes with the same surname, a new name was derived based on the "surname", which is "shi".

This is how it appeared.

The appearance of the surname made a difference between the tribes with the same surname.

Later, shi refers specifically to the leader of the tribe.

For example, the Yellow Emperor, who we are very familiar with, is also known as the Xuanyuan clan.

The "shi" here can only be called a clan leader by a tribal leader.

Of course, there are different views on the appearance of Shi.

For example, in a patriarchal society, the number of people is increasing, and the number of tribes is also increasing. If things go on like this, people will no longer be equal, but there will be distinctions between high and low.

This is the inevitable result of social development.

There is a distinction between high and low among people, then gradually there will be slaves, commoners, and nobles, and the whole society will gradually transition to a slave society.

At this time, some nobles added another surname after their surnames in order to show their differences from those of slaves and commoners.

This is another way of saying that Mr.

It can be seen from this statement that nobles have surnames and surnames, while slaves and commoners have surnames and no surnames.

Therefore, it can also be said that the appearance of the clan marks the step of human history into a class society.

Therefore, women call them "surnames", which are used to separate marriages, and men call them "shi", which are used to express nobleness and inferiority.

The origin and function of surname is a little more complicated than that of surname, but shi appears after surname and is a branch of surname, which evolved from surname, which can be affirmed.

Surnames and surnames are the product of two stages of civilization in the progress of human society.

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