Surname is a very important thing for us Chinese, after all, the name will accompany us for a lifetime, and the surname expresses the social and kinship relationship of each of us. Not only that, but the surname also represents the incense of a family and the inheritance of bloodline. So most of us follow our father's last name, so where did this tradition come from?
Surnames were first given to the mother in matrilineal societies. "Surname, from the girl. The meaning of this sentence is that all people are born of mothers, that is, of women. Therefore, the earliest surnames in ancient times were all "from women", that is, the word "women" was used as a side surname. For example: Ji, Ji, Yao, Ying, Jiang and other surnames. Therefore, the surname is derived from the matrilineal society, which indicates the blood symbol of the same matrilineal clan.
"Tongzhi Clan Strategy" said: Three generations ago (Xia, Shang and Zhou), the surname was divided into two, the man was called the name, and the pregnant person (woman) was called the surname. So don't be noble and cheap, the noble have a clan, and the cheap have a name without a clan. The surname is not married, so there is a difference between the same surname and different surname. If the same surname is different, the marriage can be passed;If the surname is different, the marriage is not compatible.However, at the time of the "matriarchal society", because people had not yet entered the feudal period, men did not care whether their children were their own, and people at that time only needed to care about whether their children were of the same race as themselves. So in ancient times, children followed their mother's surname just to facilitate "classification".
However, when human civilization has developed to a certain process, it has developed and derived a fixed marriage system, and under the labor mechanism with "manpower" as the productive force, masculinism has risen strongly, completely subverting the matriarchal society, after all, who has physical strength at that time has an advantage.
Since there was no DNA identification in ancient times, although there is a claim that blood is recognized, there is no scientific basis for it. Since there is no way for men to identify whether a child is biological, there is no need to identify, just a "label", which is the child's surname. Many old professors believe that from this point of view,Taking the father's surname is actually the best way to compensate for the inequality between men and women.
Another important reason why children take their father's surname is to protect women. After all, the child must have been born by the mother, there is no dispute about this, but who is the father?Therefore, the purpose of taking the father's surname is to establish the relationship between the child and the father, to give the man the right to take the surname, and to let the man pay and assume the responsibility of raising the child. If the child takes the mother's surname, the man only sows the seeds and does not have to care about anything after giving birth, it will become extremely difficult for the woman to grow up with the child alone**.
Although it is a tradition for children to follow their father's surname for thousands of years and has not changed, China's current law stipulates that they can also follow their mother's surname, so the children of "door-to-door sons-in-law" are also protected by law with their mother's surname!100 help plan