Are the Korean surnames Li and Jin the same as those in China?

Basically, the recognized ancestor of the Korean nation immigrated from the Shang Dynasty after the demise of the Shang Dynasty (China's dynasty), which is what North Korea called the "Swallow Country."

The offspring of their marriage with the local people (Korean Peninsula) is the Korean nation, and for a long time, they have maintained the tradition that their ancestors did not have surnames (just like the ancient Japanese nation and China did not have surnames)-except the nobles who held power.

This Kim and Lee belong to a noble surname of North Korea, which is supposed to be given by Emperor China when North Korea belonged to the China Dynasty.

As for the names of ordinary people, it was probably after the Tang Dynasty (China's dynasty) that the communication between China and North Korea (sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty) and the spread of Confucian culture began to develop.

Basically, it has nothing to do with Koreans (that is, it was not formed by the migration of a surname family from China to North China).

To study Korean surnames, we need to know the ethnic composition in Northeast China. A large number of surnames such as mountains, rivers and forests in Tonggu national language are translated into Chinese pronunciation, which is very representative. For example, the Chinese pronunciation of the old surname of Manchu in China has become the representative of Manchu assimilation in Northeast China. Koreans used surnames in ancient times, which is very common in human history.

There is no doubt that the system of using surnames in China has many advantages in residents' management, so ancient South Korea introduced the social management method of using surnames from China.

At first, only the royal family and upper-class nobles and officials gave them surnames. Later, from top to bottom, laborers and civilians also used surnames. Many surnames are the same as their owners.

So most Koreans have the same surname. At the same time, the surname at that time was a symbol of status. At the same time, they borrowed many surnames from China, so although they share the same surname as the Han nationality, they are not related by blood.

After the formation of surname system, the relationship between surname and lineage was established.

There are so many Kim surnames in Korea, which is the above reason. Jin is a popular surname, and many Jin don't belong to the same family at all.

There are several sources of Jin surname. The first one came from the king of Silla Jin Shu, and the second one came from the king of Kaye Jin Shoulu. The surname Park comes from the ancestor of Silla King Park (Silla King belongs to the same family, but there are two surnames Park and Jin). These two surnames belong to surnames from myths and legends. The high surname, rich surname and Liang surname of Jeju Island also come from myths and legends. Fu Xi, king of Baekje, and Gao Shi, king of Koguryo, all took their surnames.

There are also some surnames given by the ancient Emperor China or the kings of the three countries on the Korean Peninsula (such as Jinhai Xu Shi given by King Silla and Ganquan given by Emperor China), which were changed by themselves (after the demise of Korea, the Wangs changed their surnames to Yu, Quan and Tian, etc.). Fu Yulong, the son of King Baekje Yici, went to study in the Tang Dynasty after his death and was given the surname Xu. After Silla, the third generation Confucian king, divided the country into six tribes, he gave the chiefs of each tribe surnames, such as the surname Sun given by Zhu Lima, the surname Cui given by Suvaduri and so on.

There are also insulting surnames given by the king to "disorderly people", such as ox, horse, elephant (later changed to Shang), roe (later changed to Zhang) and dolphin (later changed to Dun). There are also some ancient surnames of unknown origin, such as Xianyu and Xu, Su, Baekje Sha, Yan, Xie, Guo, Zhen and Miao.