Surname, the difference between Sima and Si

1. Essentially different

Sima and Si are two different surnames. Sima is a compound surname. In ancient times, it was the surname of the Western Jin Dynasty and was the major surname among the compound surnames; Si is a single surname. , the compound surnames in history include Si Guo, Sicheng, Si Shi, Si Hong, Si De, etc. Many of their descendants also changed their names to the single surname Si, and were called the Si family.

2. Different origins

The surname Sima originated from the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was based on official position. At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Sima, Situ and Sikong were collectively called the "Three Yous". It is ranked 410th in the Song version of "Hundred Family Surnames".

The ancestor of the Si surname came from the Xia Dynasty and was called the Xia Si family. The first Si surname came from Xia Qi.

3. Different distributions

The Sima family is widely distributed in Luoyang City, Yanshi City, and Wen County in Henan Province, Hancheng County in Shaanxi Province, and Sushui in Shanxi Province County, Susong County in Anhui Province, Xiangtan City, Xiangxiang City, and Xiangyin City in Hunan Province, Lanling County in Shandong Province, Zhiqian Town in Jintan City in Jiangsu Province, Beijing City, Shanghai City, Tianjin City, and Hebei Province Province, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Province and other places, there are Sima clan members distributed.

The Si clan is an ancient surname with many ethnic groups and origins. After many years of migration, the Si clan people are widely distributed across the country, especially in the Huanghuai River Basin and the Central Plains provinces.

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