**Wan Fan Incentive Plan Readers are puzzled as to why Fukangan is not surnamed Li but surnamed Fu, this is because the Manchu banner people in the Qing Dynasty had the habit of calling their names without their surnames. Fukangan's grandfather is Li Rongbao, and his father is Fu Heng.
* The mystery of the Manchurian surname: from blood to region The Manchurian surname, also known as "Hara", is derived from the name of a place, tribe or totem. As the members of the same blood family dispersed to different places, the blood ties gradually drifted apart, and the geographical relations were far and near, forming new blood branches, so the name of the place of residence was added to the old surname.
For example, if you live in the clan of Yehnara, you will have the surname Yehnara; Those who live in the area of Huifa are surnamed Huifa Nala. The famous Guerjia surname in Manchuria is divided into 12 major surnames, such as Suwan Guerjia, Yehe Guerjia, etc.
There are also Yiergen Jueluo, Shushu Jueluo, Xilin Jueluo, Tongyan Jueluo, Ayan Jueluo, Hulun Jueluo, Aha Jueluo and so on. The Qing Dynasty Aixinjue Luo clan is a branch of this ancient surname.
Manchurians are usually referred to by their first names and do not mention their surnames. For example, during the Kangxi period, there were two Manchurian generals who were both named "Mu Cheng'e", but their surnames were not the same, one was "Namu Dulu" and the other was "Salcha".
Fukangan, his grandfather Li Rongbao, and his father Fu Heng are all surnamed Fucha.
Originally, among the banner people, the use of names followed the old custom handed down from the clan society, that is, "calling the name without mentioning the surname". This custom has a long history and eventually became a common fashion among the flag people.
Among the surnames of the banner people, most of them were inherited by the Jurchens of their ancestors, such as Fucha, Yila, Nala, Feimo, Wanyan, Niu Colu, etc. Later, with the continuous expansion of the Manchurian nation and the absorption of foreign ethnic elements, the surnames of Solon, Xibe, Hezhe, Daur, Han, and Korean were added.
After a Han woman marries into a Jurchen family, she will also be renamed "a certain Jia", such as Tong Jia, Wang Jia, Zhang Erjia, etc. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Manchurian surname was gradually sinicized, and the Qing Emperor Shunzhi changed his name to Fulin.
However, the large-scale name change phenomenon still appeared after the Manchus abandoned their own language and switched to Chinese, which was probably during the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods.
During the Qianlong period, many Manchus began to follow the example of the Han Chinese, taking the first character of their names as surnames, so much so that the Qianlong Emperor intervened. In the thirty-second year of Qianlong (1767), one of the banner people introduced was named Man Jishan, and his name was Man, which caused Qianlong's dissatisfaction.
He thinks that Jishan should be Jueluo's surname, which is very noble, but it makes no sense for him to take Man as his surname and follow the way the Han people named him. Qianlong ordered the princes of the Zongren Mansion to investigate and correct the situation.
However, in the Jiaqing period, some of the children of the clan even stopped paying attention to their surname, Aixinjue Luo. Some clans prefer to claim to be surnamed Zhao, and some even put the yellow ribbon of the clan before their own name to form the surname Huang.
This made Emperor Jiaqing very angry, and he ordered that this happen and threatened to impose heavy fines on violators. But judging from the subsequent situation, this ban did not have much effect.
The Manchurians have a deep family concept and attach great importance to the compilation and revision of family trees and genealogies, so it is extremely rare for people to really forget their surnames. The reason why they changed to Han surnames was mainly to conform to trends and facilitate socialization.
From the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the names of the Manchus gradually became sinicized. The customs of the early Manchu people were very simple, and they often did not use auspicious words when naming children. Since fishing, hunting and gathering were the main content of economic life, the Manchus had a good grasp of all kinds of birds, and often named their children after them.
For example, in the Nurhachi family, there are many people whose names come from animals, such as Dolgon, Gurmahun, Boheto, Dudu, etc. In addition, newborn names may also be derived from their rank, body parts, or characteristics, such as Keqin County Wang Yuetuo's name means silly boy or nerd, Beizi Fu Lata's name means rotten eyes, and Yu Prince Duoduo's name means fetus.
Manchu people also use numbers in naming, if a person's grandfather happens to be seventy years old when he is born, his name is "Na Danzhu", which means "seventy". Later, this habit gradually evolved into the direct use of Chinese numbers, for example, when the grandfather was sixty-two, the child's name was "sixty-two".
This naming habit is rare among the Han Chinese.
After entering the customs, the Manchus gradually realized the roughness of their original naming habits, so they began to incorporate beautiful words such as peace, auspiciousness, and happiness, which are commonly used by the Han people, into their names.
Before his death, Huang Taiji named his ninth son Fulin, which means that good fortune is coming. Fulin's second, fifth, and seventh sons were named Fuquan, Changning, and Longxi respectively, and these names obviously had a tendency to be sinicized.
Emperor Xuanye of Kangxi began to study Confucian classics at an early age and was deeply influenced by Han culture, which is also reflected in the names he gave to his princes. Many of his names are inspired by the Book of Rites and the Book of Songs.
If something is good, the next will follow suit. Since then, it has been named with words such as Fushou, auspicious, and Kangtai in Chinese, and it has gradually become fashionable among the flag people. However, due to the high frequency of use of such words in the names of flag people, sometimes there may even be misunderstandings.
It is recorded in the Nanting Notes: There is a banner man named Wufu, who went to Panyu, Guangdong to serve as the magistrate. There is a custom in Guangdong that whenever the New Year comes, people will put the words "Five Blessings on the Door" on the door.
Seeing this, Wufu thought it was a contempt for himself and was so angry that he ordered hundreds of lashes to be inflicted on the people involved. This incident made the people of Panyu County no longer dare to post the words "Wufu Linmen" in the future.
This kind of misunderstanding reminds people of the situation that "only the state officials are allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps".
There is a phenomenon called the use of the first word from generation to generation in the naming habit of the banner people, such as the scholar Agui, whose father's name is Actun, and his son's name is Addis and Amida, and the initial character of their names is "A".
Emperor Qianlong thought that if he continued to use it in this way, a new surname might be formed over time, so he ordered Ah Gui not to use the character "A" in his grandchildren.
This phenomenon is easily misunderstood as "the father and son of the banner people have different surnames" and "the Manchu generation has one surname", but in the edicts of the Qianlong and Jiaqing dynasties, there are countless examples of banner people imitating the habits of the Han people and changing the Han surname.
Although the emperor severely criticized this, or personally intervened to change the name, the effect was not obvious. In fact, the banner people changed their surnames to Han names, not only because they admired Han culture, but more importantly, because they could not avoid frequent contact with Han people, and Han people found it difficult to remember the Manchu names.
Therefore, in order to facilitate communication, it is a very natural choice for the banner people to choose a Chinese name.
In fact, not only the name, but even the "characters" and "numbers" used by the Han people were imitated by the Manchurians. Even Emperor Qianlong's twelfth elder brother, Prince Yongzhen, nicknamed himself "Jingquan", and as a result, he was severely criticized by Emperor Qianlong, saying that he was "vulgar and hateful".
It can be seen from this incident that even the prince living in the deep palace is very yearning for the surname culture of the Han people.