In 214, the latest edition of the "Hundred Surnames" list was released. The first surname of a hundred surnames is Wang.
The reason why Wang became the first surname in China is "mainly because of the expansion of the demographic sample". According to Yuan Yida, the director of the Research Center for the Origin of Chinese Surnames of Fuxi Cultural Research Society of China (hereinafter referred to as the "Research Center"), "Since the Song Dynasty, Li, Wang and Zhang have been the three most populous surnames in China.
The population of Li and wang xing are different in different times, and the ranking is often equal. " However, the data of "Hundred Family Names" in 26 mainly concentrated in the Central Plains, East China and South China, but most counties and cities in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Qinghai and Northeast China with the most dominant population of "Wang" were not collected into the newly published local chronicles at that time, which also caused the lack of statistics.
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According to historical documents, surnames can be traced back to the matriarchal clan system in primitive human society. Surnames appearing in China early in the morning are all beside female characters or radicals, such as Ji surname and Yao surname. At that time, the surname was used as a specific symbol to distinguish clans, such as the name of a tribe or the name of a tribal leader. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor lived on the shore of Jishui and took Ji as his surname. Yandi lives next to Jiang Shui and takes Jiang as his surname.
the emperor gave Dayu a surname for his meritorious service in water control. In addition, the son of a tribal leader can also have a surname. The Yellow Emperor had twenty-five sons, and fourteen of them were given surnames, namely Ji, You, Qi, Ji, Teng, Ren, Xun, Wei, Xian and Yi, and four of them belonged to the second surname. After Zhu Rong, there were eight surnames for himself, Dong, Peng, Bald, Yi, Cao, Zhu and Mi, which were called Zhu Rong's eight surnames in history.
Reference: People's Daily Online-The latest version of the list of 1 surnames comes out. Where is your surname?