Is there any basis for saying that people with the same surname were family 500 years ago?

It is unscientific to say that people with the same surname were family 500 years ago.

Because they share the same surname, I thought it might have been handed down from a family a long time ago, meaning the same ancestor. Five hundred years is just a long concept here, not a real length of time, but it is not credible from now on.

In China, people always ask their names when they meet. If they are found to have the same surname, they will feel more cordial and say with a smile that "they were a family 500 years ago".

Some people will take the initiative to establish relationships with celebrities. For example, Kong thinks he is a descendant of Confucius, Guan thinks he is a descendant of Guan Yu, and Cao claims to be a descendant of Cao Cao. ...

However, this statement is not accurate After investigation, we found that a big surname may have hundreds of origins, such as Li, the second largest surname in China, some from Yuan and some from Zhao. In the Tang Dynasty, the founding fathers were given the surname "Li", and even in the post-Wei period, the compound surname of Xianbei was changed to "Li".

Some scholars have explained that on the one hand, the same surname can be traced back to ancestors, and it cannot be a person, but a family.

For example, if the surname is Kong, the ancestor may be Confucius or his brother. For another example, all the surnames of the Chinese nation can be traced back to Yan Di and the Yellow Emperor, but it is impossible to have only these two people, but two families. Surnames have a history of more than 5,000 years in China. For example, Fu's surname is Feng. In ancient times, in addition to the surname 12 given to his son by the Yellow Emperor, there were surnames such as Xu, Deng, Zhou, Ding, Chang and Dong, all of which had a history of four or five thousand years. ?

The formation of China's surname has a long history and various reasons. But judging from 100 surnames, most of them take the country as their surnames or the city as their surnames.

It turned out to be the king of a country. After the death of the country, residents took the country as their surname. This kind of situation mostly happened in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and generally has a history of two or three thousand years. The shortest history is Qiu. In the third year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1725), Yong Zhengdi changed the surname of Tai Wei by imperial edict, which was only more than 200 years ago. ?

The diversity of surnames in China determines the diversity of surnames. There are many reasons, varied and dazzling.

Take the country as the surname, the city as the surname, the occupation as the surname, the official position as the surname, the residence as the surname, the name of the ancestor as the surname, the emperor as the surname, the foreigner as the surname and so on. But most of them take the country as their surname or the city as their surname. ?

More importantly, in the process of the spread and evolution of surnames, the purity of a surname "bloodline" will be affected. A large number of given surnames, changed surnames and taboo surnames make it difficult to establish the saying that "five hundred years ago was a family".

However, surnames have become the glue of the cohesion of the Chinese nation. "Many overseas Chinese have to spend money to repair their genealogy and seek their roots. In the process of restoring their genealogy, their contact with the mainland has also greatly promoted the local economy.

Extended data:

"Five hundred years ago, it was a family" is a well-known saying among women and children, but few people know its origin.

Experts pointed out in the ongoing "China Hong Tong Sophora Roots Festival" that this sentence originated from "Hong Tong Sophora Immigrants" more than 600 years ago.

According to research, it took more than 500 years from the early Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

At that time, the descendants of Sophora japonica have spread all over the country.

When people meet for the first time and ask each other about their hometown, they will say, "Ah! It turned out to be Hongdong's hometown.

"If you ask" What's the name of your hometown "again, if the answer is the same surname, the questioner will say:" Ah! It was a family 500 years ago.

"Gradually, the same surname" was a family 500 years ago "has continued to this day.

Example:

Since you read the surname Niu, you were a family 500 years ago, so I am commensurate with your grandparents and grandchildren. ★ Chapter 22 of The Scholars by Qing Wu Jingzi.