Origin of the surname Huang 2006-3-7 18:24:53
Trees have roots and water has a source. Surnames are the dawn of civilization, the symbol of blood, the bond of marriage, the beginning of a tribe, and the foundation of a country. The roots of Chinese national civilization are deeply rooted in the hearts of descendants of Yan and Huang, forming strong vitality and solid cohesion. As an important part of traditional Chinese culture, surname culture is the nutrient base and adhesive for this strong vitality and solid cohesion. The Chinese nation is one of the earliest countries in the world to have surnames. The common ancestors of the Chinese nation are the two emperors, Yan and Huang, and the descendants of Yan and Huang have produced more than 12,000 surnames. They cross regions, cross borders, and even infiltrate into foreign ethnic groups to form new ethnic groups. The Chinese nation has made significant contributions to the development of human civilization. It is one of the nations with a long history and one of the outstanding nations in the world.
Surname and surname are originally two different concepts. The surname was originally used as the name of a clan (tribe). However, not every member of the tribe is qualified to own and use a surname. Only nobles and commoners (in fact, there are very few so-called commoners in primitive society) are qualified to own and use it. Slaves do not have the qualifications of "human beings" and have no rights. Have and use the surname of his tribe. A clan is the chief leader of a tribe, and the Lord assigns clans to his subordinate tribes. The right to own and use surnames is more stringent than surnames. Not only slaves cannot use them, but civilians are also not qualified to use them.
As one of the important members of the Chinese surname family, the Huang family has an early origin and deep roots. Her mainstream surname is a surname derived from the country. According to ethnic records: In ancient times, Lu Zhong, the great-grandson of Emperor Zhuanxu, had six sons. The second son, Nanlu Gong, was granted the title of Huang and established the Huang Kingdom (in today's Huangchuan County, Henan Province). It has a history of four thousand years. That is to say, the "Yuanhe Surname Compilation" compiled by the Tang Dynasty records: "Huang, after the end of Lu, was granted the title of Huang, was destroyed by Chu, and took the country as his surname." Zheng Qiao, a famous scholar from Putian, Fujian, wrote in his book "Tong" It is also said in the book "Zhi Clan Brief": "The Huang family won the surname, and after Lu Zhong, he was granted the title of Huang. There is a Huang Guocheng twelve miles west of Dingcheng in Guangzhou today. (Lu) Xi Gong was the governor of Chu in the twelfth year of his reign. After it was destroyed, the descendants took the country as their surname. "According to the "Bamboo Chronicles", "Kuo Di Zhi" and other documents, the Huang Kingdom was a viscounty state granted by Xia Qi in the 21st to 22nd centuries BC, so it was also called Huangzi Kingdom. The so-called "Huang family wins the surname" means that Lu Zhong is a descendant of Huangdi's son Zhuanxu. Zhuanxu was given the surname Ying by Huangdi. Therefore, people with the surname Huang belong to the Yellow Emperor system and are direct descendants of the Yellow Emperor. The so-called "after Lu Zhong" refers to Lu Zhong's second son Nanlu Gong. He was granted the title of a food town in Huangdi by his ancestors. This Huangzi Kingdom probably existed for more than 1,500 years, until 648 BC, which was the tenth year of Duke Xi of Lu. In the second year, it was annexed by the powerful Chu State. This Huang Ziguo no longer exists. To this day, in Huangchuan County, Henan Province, you can still find the ruins of the city wall of the capital of Huang Ziguo. Although the country no longer exists, the people of Huang Ziguo still miss their lost homeland, so they came up with a way: to use the name of the country that no longer exists as their surname. On the one hand, they can not forget their ambitions and show their respect for their ancestors. On the one hand, it creates a spiritual bond for future generations that is not limited by time and space and cannot be broken by any force. Therefore, the surname "Huang" has been in China since 648 BC. Of course, in the long history of development, northern ethnic minorities and other surnames have also appeared in the ranks of Huang surnames, but these are only isolated cases and do not account for a larger proportion like other surnames, so they can be ignored completely.
According to research by philologists and archaeologists, the current yellow character originally did not mean yellow, but a pictographic character, which is a kind of jade used for wearing. Our ancestors not only liked to wear jade articles, but also made jade articles with precision, and they especially liked the color yellow. They were a clan that worshiped the color yellow and used the phoenix bird as their emblem, so they borrowed the hieroglyphic word "yellow" as the word "yellow" and used the pronunciation "huang".
Many place names, mountain names and water names in our country use yellow as their names, such as: Neihuang, Waihuang, Huanggang, Huangmei, Huangshan, Huangshui, Huangchi, Yellow River, etc., most of them in history It is the place where our Huang people have lived, and there are often more than one. For example, Huangcheng. In addition to the ancient Huangcheng ruins in Huangchuan County, there are two Huangcheng in Shandong and Huangluocheng, the capital of the ancient country Guzhu.
In addition to the world-famous Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province, there are six Huangshan Mountains, one in Hebei, three in Shandong, one in Shaanxi, and one in Jiangsu. There are three places in Chaoshan, Guangdong called Huanghuangtang (two in Raoping and one in Chao'an) and three in Chaoshan. Huangqishan (respectively in Raoping, Chao'an, and Jieyang), Huanghuangtang and Huangqishan in Raoping are still the settlements of the Huang family. The Xilamulun River, which flows upstream from the Liao River in eastern Inner Mongolia, was called Huangshui in ancient times and later called Huangshui. According to the research of modern archaeologists, our Huang people first lived in the Huangshui area. Later, they moved through what is now Hebei to Shandong in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and then moved to the vast areas on both sides of the middle reaches of the Yellow River. There have been three Yellow Rivers in history. country, one is near Taiyuan in Shanxi, the other is in Huangchuan County in Henan, and the other is in the southeast of Yicheng County in Hebei. After the Jin Dynasty, our ancestors migrated to the south of the Yangtze River and the southeast coast again, and quickly multiplied, becoming the descendants of the Huang family with a large population now, all over the world.
Like other surnames in Chaoshan, most of the Huang family's ancestors migrated from various places in Fujian Province. According to known genealogical records, one route is from Putian, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou. They moved into Chaoshan along the seaside and settled in the flatter areas along the coast of Chaoshan. The other migration route was from Shaowu, Tingzhou (Ninghua, etc.), and moved into Chaoshan along the Fujian-Guangdong border area and the inland mountainous area. After the incoming tide, most of them Settled in Chaoshan inland, more hilly and mountainous areas. Chaoshan area, formerly known as Chaozhou, speaks Southern Fujian dialect, and a few speak Hakka dialect. Including the three prefecture-level cities of Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang today, it has jurisdiction over nine counties. The current total population is 10 million, of which the Huang family accounts for about 800,000, and the distribution is quite even. It is a surname with a large number of people living in Chaoshan today, and its position is ranked between the fifth and sixth.