Analysis of the ranking of 100 surnames The origin of the order of the name and the origin of the genealogy
Do you know in what order "Hundred Family Names" is arranged? Why is it arranged like this?
When it comes to the surnames of the hundred families, people immediately think of Zhao, Qian, Sun, and Li. Since this is a culture that has been passed down in China for thousands of years, many people are very interested in the order in which these surnames are arranged and the reasons behind them. In fact, the "Hundred Family Names" is said to have been compiled by a scholar in Qiantang in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. These four-character phrases are so rhythmic and memorable that they are easy to read and memorize, so they became popular as soon as they came out.
As for the reason why Zhao Qiansun Li ranked first, it is closely related to the new 504 surnames in the 411th place of the hundred family surnames, closely related to the birth period of the hundred family names, and closely related to the Song Dynasty emperor with the surname Zhao.
Zhao Qian, Sun Li is a national surname; During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, King Wu Yue's surname was Qian, and it is said that the surname Sun of the Song Dynasty was the surname of the princess of Wu Yue, and the surname of the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty was Li. Many later surnames were also arranged according to rhyme, such as Wang, Yang, Zhang, Jiang, Zhang, Lang, Fang, Tang, etc., all of which have a clear sense of rhyme when read. This may be different from what the general population perceives. I think many people think that the order of the surnames is based on the size of the population, but this is not the case.
Among the hundreds of surnames that have attracted much attention, there is such a question, such as the surname Liu, a big surname suitable for countless celebrities and princes, why is it still so far behind more than two hundred surnames? According to legend, the Northern Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty were very unhappy because of Song Taizu, and Song Taizu conquered the Northern Han Dynasty three times in his life, but he returned in vain. This scholar was very smart, and with a stroke of the pen, he threw the surname Liu back and won the emperor's favor. Therefore, from this story, it is not surprising that we think of the background of the surname Liu, because this world is not a country where everything is king, so we must read each work in connection with the background of the times at that time, so as not to make a small discovery.