What are the common types of surnames?
China as a unified multi-ethnic country with a long history of nearly 5,000 years, a vast territory and a large population, such a complex national situation determines that the surname of the Chinese must be diverse, the author concludes that the ancestors of the Chinese have the surname, the most common are the following 16 forms: the first is to take the ancestral totem worship as the surname: the second is to take the words in the ancestors' names as the surname; the third is to take the name of the fief and the name of the country as a surname; the fourth type has a surname based on occupation or official position; fifth, with the name of the mountain and the name of the river; Sixth, the surname is based on the direction of the place of residence: the seventh, the name of the tribe is the surname; the eighth, with the vision at birth as the surname; the ninth, with a nickname as a surname; the tenth type, the surname changed for the purpose of avoiding trouble, revenge, suspicion, and suspicion; The eleventh is to take the surname given by the emperor as the surname; the twelfth type, with quantifiers, ranking order, and sexagenary branches as surnames; thirteenth, the minority changed the Han surname as the surname; The fourteenth is changed to the surname of an ethnic minority by the Han Chinese; The fifteenth, partly ** is the surname of ethnic minorities.
How to check the origin of family surname?
The purpose of genealogy is to "distinguish between relatives and relatives", so researching the origin of surnames has also become one of the most important contents of genealogy. The vast majority of genealogies have a chapter that records the origin of the surname, to describe the family name ** or the history of the family name changed for some reason. Therefore, the origin of the family name in the family tree becomes very important, and it is a proof document for us to distinguish the family lineage. So how do we find out the origin of our surname?
1) Network database search.
At present, there are more than 620 surnames in China, and there are as many as 2 million genealogies included, covering various surnames and branches. The collection of genealogy of the Baijia genealogy app is a huge database with as many as 600,000 volumes of genealogical information of China's major surnames.
2) Local library or museum inquiry.
In general, libraries have genealogies in their collections, and it is well documented to find the origin of surnames, 3) major searches**.
The major searches** provide great convenience for us to query information, but the information is real and false, and it has to be verified and compared, which is more troublesome. If you can find out the origin of the surnames of the first five generations, you need to go to the village in detail, and you need to visit the oral statements or other records of the older generation. It is suggested that when compiling the genealogy, the origin of the surname should be detailed with the information of the place of migration, such as time, route, faction, etc., as well as the situation of migration to other places, and the details of this branch and other branches.