The descendants of Qin Shi Huang found that the three major surnames were all his descendants
Speaking of the feudal dynasties of ancient China, the Qin Dynasty is an unavoidable topic. Regardless of the size of the dynasty, the size of the territory, or the significance of history, the Qin Dynasty is of irreplaceable importance. And what we are going to talk about today is not the Qin Dynasty itself, but the surname of the Qin Dynasty, which is a corner of the cultural branch of the Qin Dynasty.
We all know that the surname of the Qin Dynasty is Shi Huang"Wins"。As the surname of the emperor,"Wins"Surnames have an extraordinary significance in the history of feudal dynasties. After all, there were still many rules for names at the time, and people often avoided the emperor's name when writing.
After Qin Shi Huang established the royal family, his descendants, as representatives of the Qin royal family, basically consisted of four surnames. As the descendants of Qin Shi Huang were discovered one by one, three of the four surnames belonging to all the descendants of Qin Shi Huang were restored. What are these four surnames?
If we want to explain the surname of the descendants of the first queen of Qin and the evolution of the Qin royal family, we cannot bypass our ancient ancestor Yingzheng. It's just that the surnames we call today are actually slightly different from those of the early days. In the era of feudal dynasties, people paid more attention to the titles of their clans and their own names.
Everyone valued their family more than they do today, and only in a few rural areas would the whole family have the same surname. The history of clans and clan groups is very important to the indigenous people. Some people move from place to place, and if they are lucky enough to meet someone with the same surname in a new place, they quickly blend together.
According to historical records, Ying Zheng's ancestral home was not Qin, but Zhao, that is, his original surname was Zhao. It wasn't until Qin Shi Huang was weakened that the Qin royal family remembered the Zhou Dynasty"Wins"surname, since then Qin Shi Huang's Yingzheng surname has been established.
Since then, the surname Yingzheng has become the royal surname of China's first great feudal dynasty. It's hard for us to understand, how many"Wins"The surname met Ying Zheng, and Ying Zheng is the king of a country, and his descendants will definitely not be few, even countless.
What is said here"Wins", that is, Qin II Hu Hai. When Hu Hai came to power in a nondescript manner, he feared that his younger brother and other relatives and their descendants would succeed him and overthrow his rule. So, without saying a word, Hu Hai killed almost all his relatives.
However, Hu Hai was incapable of managing the country and guaranteeing *** Subsequently, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang led by example, and the peasant uprising intensified.
First of all, Hu Hai almost killed all of his relatives. Liu Bang, Xiang Yu and other relatives were born, so they naturally wiped out the Qin royal family, and there were very few descendants of Yingzheng.
However, in that war-torn era, it was almost impossible to wipe out all the descendants of the Qin Dynasty, because many people did not have an electronic program to record the population list, so it would take a lot of effort to eliminate all the members of the Qin Palace. As a result, some of Yingzheng's descendants survived the war. It's just that after the war, these people were divided and settled in different places.
And these lucky people will definitely not use the surname Yingzheng in the future, which will only bring them the bad luck of being killed. We talked about Hu Hai's killing of relatives earlier, so what is the inside story of this matter?
It all started with Qin Shi Huang being seriously ill. In 210 B.C., Qin Shi Huang went on patrol and was terminally ill. Accompanied by the fatigue of the journey, Qin Shi Huang died before he could celebrate his 50th birthday.
After the death of such a powerful emperor, the state of Qin was in chaos. According to ancient tradition, after the death of Qin Shi Huang, his son Fusu naturally succeeded to the throne. However, the Qin Dynasty already had eunuchs, the most outstanding of which were Zhao Gao and Li Si.
These two people wanted to be very jealous of Gongzi Fusu's talent after the death of Qin Shi Huang. They came up with a way to get rid of Fusu Gong, and they needed a very obedient and spotless person to be the emperor. Come to think of it, isn't the upright second prince Hu Hai the best candidate?
Under the secret actions of Zhao Gao and Li Si, Hu Hai was put on the throne. However, after Hu Hai came to power, he hated these two powerful ministers to the core, and his desire for power was extremely strong. Hu Hai also feared reprisals, so he sent assassins to kill his relatives, especially those related to his brother Fusu.
In this great ** and the subsequent peasant uprising, there were few descendants of Yingzheng left, but there were still a few survivors hiding in the mountains and forests. They didn't dare to come out, because Hu Hai had been looking for them, and in the end these people even changed their surnames - Qin, Yin, and Yin became the first of Yingzheng's descendants"Last name"。
Despite this statement, no one in history has ever seen the true face of the descendants of Qin Shi Huang. There is no one in history who claims to be a descendant of Yingzheng. After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, these people should not be in danger of life, why don't they go out and live?
We can analyze it from several angles. First of all, several historical claims about the survival of Yingzheng's descendants may be false. Although we say that it is impossible to exterminate all these people, it is possible that the descendants of Yingzheng died almost at that time, and those who remained later died due to war, famine, disease, etc.
Second,"Peach Blossom Spring"story. As described in "The Peach Blossom Spring", the Qin people may have discovered such a place and then formed their own circle of life. Suffering from the war, as long as they live and work in peace and contentment, they do not intend to come into contact with outsiders. This is also the reason why future generations have never seen them.
In any case, to date, no one has any evidence that the descendants of Qin Shi Huang ever existed. As for'Qin'、'Yin'、'Yin'and other statements, even more rumors, there is no way to verify, not to mention that there are still people with these surnames today who are the descendants of Yingzheng.