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The Dictionary of Chinese Surnames, edited by Yuan Yida and Du Ruofu, is recorded as 11,969, including 5,327 single-character surnames, 4,329 double-character surnames and 1,615 three-character surnames. It is said that this is the latest statistics on the number of surnames in China so far, and it is also the largest statistics.
how many surnames does China have?
There are many surnames in China. The saying of "hundred surnames" is just an expression of many surnames, not just 1 surnames. After thousands of years of historical vicissitudes,
China people's surnames are almost varied, all of which are surnames. For example, celestial meteorology (surnamed Tian, Sun, Moon, Star, Wind, Cloud, Thunder, Rainbow, etc.); Topography (mountain, river, river, sea, stone, sand, etc.); Animals and plants (horses, cows, sheep, dragons, tigers, bears, etc.); Names of dynasties (Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Wei, Wu, etc.); Military official titles (surnamed Jun, Shi, Shuai, Wei, Sima, Situ, etc.); Food utensils (firewood, rice, fire, clocks, mats, plates, etc.) have various surnames, which are always due to a certain region, history and culture. With surnames, people have studied surnames culture. Since the first book Hundreds of Surnames was published in the Song Dynasty, there have been more and more books with similar surnames, and later there have been New Hundreds of Surnames, Hundreds of Surnames in Counties, Thousands of Surnames and so on?
How many surnames do people in China have? According to the statistics of Professor Wang Quangen, the author of Cultural Analysis of Surnames in China, in the book Hundred Surnames in the early Song Dynasty, * * * collected 442 single surnames and 61 compound surnames, and * * * counted as 53 surnames. In the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shiyuan's "Surname Engraving" included 3625 single surnames and compound surnames. In 1978, after investigating the use of Chinese surnames in seven major cities through the household registration department and the post and telecommunications department, the total number of surnames obtained was 2587. In 1984, A Collection of Surnames in China, published by People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House, collected 573 single surnames and compound surnames. And Taiwan Province scholar Wang Sucun's The House of Chinese Surnames has collected as many as 7,72 ancient and modern Chinese surnames. In 1996, Beijing Education Science Publishing House published the Dictionary of Chinese Surnames, edited by Yuan Yida and Du Ruofu. * * * collected 11,969 surnames recorded in Chinese characters by all ethnic groups in ancient and modern China, including 5,327 surnames with single character, 4,329 surnames with two characters, 1,615 surnames with three characters, 569 surnames with four characters, 96 surnames with five characters and six characters. It is said that this is the latest statistics on the number of surnames in China so far, and it is also the largest statistics. ?
But even this figure, I'm afraid it's not very accurate. The number of surnames in China may be much more than we want to count. Even the authors of the Dictionary of Chinese Surnames found in their investigation that there are still some surnames among the people that have not been seen in the monograph on surnames. Some surnames are words that cannot be found in various dictionaries, such as SX (b-* 5ht6 "SS Hill SX) (sound" Ya "), and more than one family is found in Changtu County, Liaoning Province. Some surnames have this word in the dictionary, but they are not explained as surnames, and their pronunciations are also different. For example, the surname Shu (pronounced "spicy") is distributed in Anlu County, Shaanxi Province. Other rare surnames include omission, mistake, flute, temple, honey, sweat, taste, taste and dew. In addition, there are some compound surnames that have never been seen in surnames monographs and Chinese dictionaries, such as "Gu Gao", "Zhang Jian", "Xiang Li" and "Opposite each other". ?
There is no doubt that China is a country with a vast territory, a large population and a long history, and it is also a multi-ethnic country. After great ethnic integration again and again, the Chinese nation, with the largest population of Han nationality, is itself a multi-ethnic integration. Surnames are the product of culture. Due to the barriers of different regions, historical periods and different customs and cultures, on the one hand, some surnames are constantly changing, on the other hand, many surnames are difficult to collect and count in some surnames monographs. How many surnames we Chinese people have so far, or how many surnames we have at present, can only be further confirmed in the future census.