Ask the Yi people to translate their surnames into Chinese surnames. Thank you.

The method of taking the Yi surname corresponding to the Han surname can be divided into the following four situations:

1, given by the emperor. For example, according to the Records of Mahu County and Xuzhou County, Yang Tusi in Leibo County was given the surname "Yang" in the fourth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 137 1).

2. Take the surname of China, which is homophonic with the Yi people. Among the many surnames of the Yi people, many surnames have the same or similar pronunciation as hundreds of surnames of the Han people, so the Yi people use homophony to take their own Chinese surnames. Such as Mars, take China's surname Ma; The words "Mu, Mo and Meng" in Mu Xi, Mo Se and Meng Dong are similar in pronunciation to China's surname "Mao", so the surname is Mao.

3. Translate Yi surname into Han surname. Most of the Han surnames taken by Yi people are translated from Yi surnames. For example, the surname of Qubi means "white", so the surname of China people is "white". Another example is the surnames of the Yi people, such as Russia, the Lord, Yi Huo and Aaron, which are translated as bears, foxes, willows and monkeys, so they take the surname of bears, and some take the surnames of Hu, Liu and Hou.

4. The scientific name was given by the teacher. In 1950s, due to the long names of Yi people, it was difficult to remember, and the teachers of Han nationality could not pronounce the names of Yi students correctly. In order to make it easier to remember, the teachers of the Han nationality gave some Yi students Chinese surnames.

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Yi people's understanding of family and surname

The Yi people have used the father-son system since ancient times. For example, the next generation of "Zhiga Aru" is "Aru AB" and the next generation is "Abxx" ... Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, due to historical reasons, the inherent social form of Yi people has been impacted, and Yi and Han people live together. With the gradual increase of foreign exchanges, the upper class of Yi people first used the Han surname.

There are also many Yi families who have suffered great disasters in many wars with the imperial court. In order to survive, the buried nation changed to Han surname. With the development of modern society, many Yi descendants are misled by the Han surname, and it is easy to trace the family history according to the origin of the Han surname, which leads to confusion and further confusion about the general direction of the nation.

Nowadays, the Han surname of Yi people, like the English name given by China who immigrated to Europe and America, has nothing to do with his family culture or foreign families with the same surname. Both have long belonged to the logic and rules of completely different cultures.

In fact, after Mrs. She Xiang's son went to Beijing to go to school and changed his surname to An, the Yi and Han surnames gradually rose in the upper class. On important social occasions, he solemnly and strictly regarded "Yi Ni" and "Houdu" handed down from generation to generation as signs and ways to identify himself, and called his "Yi Ni" a Yi surname.

Reference source

Baidu Encyclopedia-Yi surname