Why is the Hui surname pronounced XI in some places?

Hui has only one pronunciation in Mandarin, and reading Hu and X is only influenced by the local dialect.

Basic explanation of hui

1, right, welfare: right.

2. Give people property or benefits: mutual benefit.

3, honorific, used for the other side to treat their own actions: kindness.

4, the ancient "wisdom", smart.

5. Last name.

Extended data

origin

Hui's surname has a long history, which originated in the Zhou Dynasty, came from Ji's surname and took posthumous title as his surname. According to the Records of the Words and Actions of the Clan, there was a son of heaven named Ji Lang in the Zhou Dynasty. After his death, posthumous title Hui was known as King Hui of Zhou in history, and later generations took the former king of posthumous title as their surname and called Hui. During the Qing Dynasty, Manchu people changed their surnames to Hui, which added new blood to the Hui family.

Great names in history

(1) Hui Shi (about 370 BC-365438 BC+00 BC): a famous politician, philosopher, founder and main representative of famous schools in the Warring States Period, whose name was Keiko. Hui Shi is the main organizer and supporter of the anti-Qin United front. He advocated that Wei, Qi and Chu should unite against Qin, and suggested that Qi and Wei should respect each other as kings. Hui Shi and Zhuangzi are very close friends, and there was a famous "debate between Hao Liang".

(2) Hui: A scholar in the Qing Dynasty, a scholar in the Kangxi period, served as a political scholar in Guangdong and Guangxi, and advocated Confucian classics, which greatly boosted the wind of scholars. After resigning due to illness, I studied Confucian classics at home, especially in my later years. He is the author of Yi Shuo, Chun Qiu Shuo and Qin Di Lun Kao.

(3) Huisheng: When the Empress Wei was filial to Ming Di, she was ordered by the Empress Dowager to go to the Western Regions with Song Yun of Dunhuang and return to India. He got 170 Mahayana classics and wrote Let the Western Regions Remember.