Where do the descendants of Qin Shi Huang go? Where is the surname "Ying" now?
In 230 BC, King Yingzheng of Qin ordered Nei Shi Teng to lead the Qin army to attack Korea, officially opening the prelude to the unification of the world.
From the six provinces of Shandong to the completion of unification, it took only nine years for King Qin to become the first emperor in history - Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng.
Qin Shi Huang thought that the Central Plains was vast and very easy to rule, but he did not think that it would be difficult to defeat the Central Plains. In order to make the Central Plains a truly unified empire, Qin Shi Huang began to unify everything that could be unified; Drive chariots on the same roads, write books in the same language...
I still remember that there is a passage in it that says that if Qin Shi Huang is allowed to live in the present, it is estimated that even the nest will have to be ended. Although this is a bit tongue-twisting, it is undeniable that Qin Shi Huang has this ability.
However, it was not until Qin Shi Huang initiated a series of unification projects that the Central Plains became indivisible"countries"。
After Qin Shi Huang became emperor, he began to think about this question. He believes that after the descendants ascend the throne and become emperors, the names should be unified, otherwise everything will be too chaotic and meaningless.
Because Qin Shi Huang was the emperor of the state of Qin, he stipulated that his descendants would be called Qin II, Qin III, Qin IV, and so on until the fall of the Qin state...
Needless to say, Qin Shi Huang was indeed very powerful, and at first glance he was a typical obsessive-compulsive patient, but he didn't expect that the huge Great Qin Empire was only passed to Qin II after his death, and then collapsed.
Qin Shi Huang also spared no effort to provide for his heirs; In addition to his famous eldest son, Fusu, and his heir, Qin II Huhai, he had more than twenty other sons.
Since Qin Shi Huang had many sons, there were many surnames in later generations"Wins"And that's a matter of course. Take Zhu Yuanzhang as an example, he has many sons, and his surname is in later generations"Zhu"There are countless people.
Why the surname today"Wins"There are so few people, and the descendants of Qin Shi Huang went**?
Questions related to the surname of Qin Shi Huang.
In the Qin Dynasty and its predecessors, the surname Ying was a very important surname, one of the eight surnames in ancient times, and the other seven surnames were Ji, Jiang, Ji, Shi, Yu, Yao, and Yao.
Attentive people will find that these eight surnames are all female surnames. This is because these surnames originated in ancient matrilineal clan societies, when women were respected and female surnames were common.
But in the past, the surname was separate from the clan, and this was not the same.
At that time,"Last name"is used to describe kinship,"Clan"is used to describe a tribal or clan relationship, or we can simply say that"Last name"Represents the maternal lineage,"Clan"Represents a patrilineal clan or tribe.
Surnames and clans were also very popular during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and Qin Shi Huang was no exception, and his official surnames were Ying and Zhao, and he was famous and political.
Therefore, many people think that Ying Zheng should be called Zhao Zheng. Actually, such a term is not very scientific. After all, the nobles of the Zhao State at that time were all surnamed Zhao, how could it be possible to distinguish between two different vassal states.
Later, the nobles of the Qin State gradually chose Yingzheng, and the nobles of the Zhao State chose the Zhao State.
Of course, there are also people who think that Qin Shi Huang's background is unknown, and it is impossible to say that his surname is Lu and not Ying or Zhao. After all, his biological mother Zhao Ji and Lü Buwei are in a ** relationship, and some people even think that Qin Shihuang's surname is Qin
In fact, there is no historical basis for these statements, whether it is from the point of view of blood or tradition, Qin Shi Huang should be surnamed Ying, after all, his ancestors are also this surname, and he is troubled with some inexplicable surnames"Qin Shi Huang"The knowledge of sending people to pay money.
Descendants of the First Emperor.
Perhaps because Qin Shi Huang was suspicious of the behavior of his biological mother Zhao Ji, he did not have an empress for life, which was closely related to the later fall of the Qin Empire. If Qin Shi Huang had an empress at that time, we don't know if Zhao Gao would have dared to instigate Li Si to tamper with Qin Shi Huang's decrees after Qin Shi Huang's death.
Although Qin Shi Huang did not have an empress, he did not have many concubines in his harem. Although there is no clear record in the history books, it can be seen from the number of Qin Shi Huang's children.
Qin Shi Huang had more than 20 sons and 10 daughters during his lifetime. With so many children, they had to support a large number of concubines.
Qin Shi Huang was an emperor of the ages, but this does not mean that his children are happy, on the contrary, it is sad to be his children, because many of them are victims of politics.
Qin Shi Huang died suddenly on a trip and was about to pass the throne to his eldest son, Fusu, who was the least likely to confront Zhao Gao, who feared that Fusu would strike him first when he ascended the throne.
Zhao Gao was a favorite of Qin Shi Huang and was in charge of the palm seal. Most of Qin Shi Huang's decrees were drafted by Zhao Gao, so after Qin Shi Huang's death, he used his power to join forces with Li Si to forge Qin Shi Huang's decrees, and put Hu Hai, who had a good relationship with Qin Shi Huang, on the throne of Qin II.
After Zhao Gao took power, the dark psychology broke out, and he began to ** Qin Shi Huang's children, the eldest son Fusu was killed by the Qin army, and the three younger brothers of Lu Gong were forced to commit suicide; Six princes of the capital were killed; Twelve princes were killed in the city of Xianyang; Gao Gong asked for a martyrdom for Qin Shi Huang; More than a dozen princesses of the capital were also executed...
Of the thirty children of Qin Shi Huang, almost none of them were spared, except for Qin II.
The current situation of the surname Ying.
Almost all of Qin Shi Huang's descendants were killed, and Hu Hai was later killed by Zhao Gao, leaving no heirs, so Qin Shi Huang had almost no direct descendants.
However, the surname Ying is a big surname, and there are many people with the surname Ying among the nobles of the Qin State, so even so, it has not affected the spread of the descendants of the surname Ying.
Zhao Gao was ruthless and even killed the children of Qin Shi Huang, and the Ying nobles naturally could not succumb to Zhao Gao's benevolence. So, in order to protect themselves, these nobles with the surname Ying had to avoid Zhao Gao and change their names.
When the princes of the world raised an army to attack Qin, these nobles with the surname Ying also became the target of public criticism, and naturally they did not dare to use the surname Ying as their surname.
When Xiang Yu and Liu Bang overthrew the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu also killed and dared to claim to be"Wins"of the child,"Wins"The surname became an ominous surname that the world avoided at that time.
Later, the world was calm, and some descendants of the surname changed their surnames to their surnames, which have been passed down to this day. Today, the surname Ying is scattered in 19 provinces such as Jiangsu, Shandong, Yunnan, Hebei, Fujian, and Zhejiang, but the number is not large, and the total number is only tens of thousands.
In addition, there are some descendants of the Ying surname who did not restore the original surname, but established their own surname, which is the later Ying surname 14: Lian, Xu, Qin, Jiang, Zhao, Huang, Liang, Ma, Ge, Gu, Mu, Zhong, Fei, Qu...
Therefore, it is very likely that these surnames also originate from the surname Ying, but in the smoke and clouds of history, the surname Ying gradually disappeared from people's sight, while the inheritance of history continues.