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The teacher of Rui Mingxuan Zhouyi Naming Hall said: Mortals must have a surname and a given name. Social primary information is also the main carrier of human social information transmission. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, people have attached great importance to their surnames and given names. Our country's surnames and given names have gone through a long process of evolution before they developed into the "names" commonly used by people today.
But in ancient my country, names were not used from the beginning. Instead, surnames and surnames were used first, followed by given names, characters, and nicknames. Ancient people had many names in their lives, each with its own purpose and different meanings. . The word "surname" has a left-right structure. The left is derived from "female" and the right is "生", which is derived from "female".
In a matrilineal society, children only know their mother, but not their father. The mother’s surname is the only identifiable relative of the descendants. As stated in "Bai Hu Tong·San Gang Liu Ji": "In the ancient Yuan Dynasty , before the Three Gangs and Sixth Epoch, the people only knew that they had a mother, but did not know that they had a father.”
"Surname" is a collective noun, an identifier of a family, or a part that is closer to a certain blood relationship of a large family. The surname only existed independently before the Han Dynasty. It was a branch of the "surname". The "surname" was the family name of the clan. The members of the clan all took this family name as their surname.