Higashino, Aragaki, do these Japanese surnames originate from China?

We are often curious about the origin of our surnames. China has had a long history and culture for five thousand years. Japan is also a country with a rich history, and many of their surnames are inextricably linked to our China. Then someone will ask Higashino and Aragaki, whether these Japanese surnames originated in China? In fact, these surnames did originate from mainland China, but many Japanese people still do not know or admit it.

The surname is very important as a family inheritance. In ancient China, we used surnames to unite a family from the very beginning, so we attach great importance to surnames. In addition, the surnames owned by ancient emperors are surnames that cannot be used by anyone except the royal nobles. Even if you had such a surname before, you must change it now. The Japanese surnames Higashino and Aragaki actually originated in China. To this day, there are still more than 10,000 people in inland China with the surname Higashino, and about 5,000 people with the surname Aragaki.

Not only that, the origins of these surnames have historical basis and research. Dongye's surname is still the authentic surname after the Yellow Emperor and has a very long history. It's just that now there are fewer and fewer people with the surname Dongye in China. But there is a large part of the population in Japan. It is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, the family named Niiguan chose to cross the sea to what is now Japan in order to escape years of war.

In fact, it is not just these two surnames, there are many surnames in Japan that originated from China. Since the Ming Dynasty, it can be verified that many nobles or wealthy businessmen traveled across the ocean to Japan and eventually settled there. Of course, we do not know the reasons why they came to Japan. But when they went there, they made some changes to their surnames. For example, those who lived in Qinghe County before changed their surnames to Qinghe. Therefore, many surnames in Japan are closely related to China.