Why did the descendants of Aisin Gioro change their surnames?

After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, members of the royal family changed their surnames for various reasons, and many descendants of the royal family changed their surnames to Han surnames such as "Jin, Zhao, Zhao, Luo, Ai and Jiang".

According to the Records of the Dynasty, there are more than 670 Manchu surnames * * *, among which the surnames come from different sources. Some people take place names as surnames, such as Ningguta's, Dong Eshi's and Niukelu's, while others take tribes as surnames, such as Wan Yan's, Nala's and Nimacha's, as well as giving surnames and changing surnames. There are many surnames.

In the middle and late Qianlong period, Manchu people began to use Chinese under the influence of Chinese culture, and Manchu language gradually declined. Many Manchu people began to use Han surnames, such as Fu, Fu and Li.

In aisingiorro's surname, it is a transliteration of Manchu Aisin, which means "Jin" in Chinese. Among the descendants of Essien Choro, the Jin surname actually comes from. For example, Mr. Jin Qicong, who studies the history and culture of Manchu and Jurchen, was originally named Aisinjo Luo Kai.

In order to distinguish the distance of blood relationship, the Qing royal family stipulated that all direct descendants below Emperor Xuanxuan were called imperial clan. The descendants of the emperor's uncles and brothers are called Jue Luo. There are "near branches" and "far branches" in the imperial clan. The so-called near imperial clan refers to the direct branch of the emperor, and the children of the emperor's brothers in the current dynasty are also near branches, while other imperial clans are far branches.

The Qing Dynasty also stipulated that the generations of the royal family should be arranged according to the words "Yin, Hong, Yong, Mian, Yi, Zai, Pu, Yu, Heng, Qi, Dao, Zeng and Qi". There are also words with or without radicals in the characters. For example, Yi usually has the word "Yan" beside it, with three points of water. For example, it is a descendant of Yi, but without the word "Yan" beside it, it is not the latest imperial clan.

Therefore, among the descendants of Aisingiorro, Jin is usually the nearest imperial clan, while Zhao (Zhao) is mostly Jueluo, belonging to a distant imperial clan.

In addition to the common Han surnames such as Jin, Zhao and Zhao, with the development of history, the surnames of Aisingiorro descendants have also appeared with their father's surnames or with homophones and homophones.

According to Man's surname, among the descendants of Nuerhachi, the Qing Taizu, there was a man named Yitushan, and his descendants took "Yi" as their surname, which has not changed so far. For example, among the descendants of Kangxi, some changed their surnames because of the homonym of "Yi" and "Yi".

After the demise of the Qing dynasty, the descendants of the Manchu royal family, who had been in full swing, also lived in various places and traced their roots. Some descendants of Manchu are proud of their surname "Essien Joro", while others are unwilling to mention it.

Mr. Qi Gong, a famous contemporary calligrapher, is a descendant of Yong Zhengdi's ninth grandson Aisingiorro. Mr. Wang is indifferent to fame and fortune, claiming to be "a child of the Eight Banners without eating ancestral meals" and claiming to be Qi, unwilling to flaunt himself in the name of descendants of the royal family. His calligraphy inscription is also a great achievement, but Rainbow Xizhi, a calligrapher, didn't want to flaunt himself as a descendant of Wang Langya, but he won the recognition of the world with his real talent and practical learning.