Which is the first surname of the hundred family names?Zhang?Wang?Lee?Or Zhao?
According to the "National Name Report" released by the Household Administration Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security, according to the number of registered population, the surname "Wang" is the most used surname in China as of 2022, accounting for about 794%。
Did you know?The surname "Wang", the "King" of the Great King ranks first!
The geographical distribution of the surname Wang is very wide, especially in East China, there are also many Wang surnames in North China and Northwest China, there are also more Wang surnames in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei and other places, and there are also some Wang surnames in the south of Taiwan and ethnic minorities.
As the number one surname of a hundred family names, how much do you know about its origin?
There are several theories about the origin of the surname Wang, let's take a look:
The first origin: said to be derived from the surname Ji, mainly from the eighteenth son of King Wen of Zhou, Ji Portugal, belongs to the name of the country, in the Yin Ruin divination, there are records of "Kwai (揆) King", as well as "Wang Zhengbu House" and other records, indicating that the surname Wang originated from King Wen of Zhou, is the descendant of King Ji Chang of King Wen of Zhou.
The second origin: it is said to be derived from the surname of the child, after the prince Bigan of the Shang Dynasty, it belongs to the name of the fiefdom, such as Ji Di, and the surname Ji is taken from Ji Di;Tian Ziman, Tian surname ** Yu Tian and so on.
The third origin: it is said that it originated from the renaming of other surnames, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who once reversed more than a dozen surnames such as Zhang and Liu with the surname Wang.