What is the origin of surnames?

As for the origin of surnames, there have always been theories of Xiong, Du and Tian.

There are different opinions about the origin of surnames. The legend in Sichuan Province is that Tuo's surname was originally Du, which was changed from one of the seven surnames of Cubans. ?

Hunan legend is that tian hu, the chieftain of Dayong Tujia in the third year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, made an insurrection. After the defeat, his eldest son Tian Zongchao avoided the uprising and was replaced by Tian. But according to local legends, there is no doubt that Tuoshi belongs to Tujia nationality. Because the ethnic composition of Tujia nationality has been concealed for a long time in history, most Tuo surnames are identified as Han nationality, and only in the border areas of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing and Guizhou are Tuo surnames defined as Tujia and Miao.

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Yan Wensheng, member of the Standing Committee of Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and Secretary General of the Provincial Party Committee (Yunxi, Hubei); Yan Zhen, deputy editor-in-chief of Economic Daily (from Fangcheng, Henan); Yu Chunshuang (Tongliang, Chongqing), curator and calligrapher of Tuoshi Painting and Calligraphy Museum in Chongqing; Taiwan Province film and television actors Chung Hua Tou and Zongkang Tuo (originally from Songzi, Hubei).

Now surnames are distributed in Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, Henan, Shaanxi and other provinces. According to research, most of them migrated from Sichuan.

Lishui Valley in Hunan is the most popular surname in China, with a population of16,000, among which Cili, Dayong and Lixian rank first in the country. In the early years of the Republic of China, Cili people insisted on avoiding the warlord melee and studying behind closed doors. They wrote a couplet in the Garden of Zhi: It is a blessing to accumulate words and avoid axes and pounds; the country is big and natural, regardless of territory. Wu Gongjing's Hui Mei Tang Hualian Volume XIII. ?

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