The generational ranking of the Ma family: Deng, Feng, Zhong, Chao, Guo, Long, Wang, Guang, Kai, De, De, Ting, Zuo, Wan, Zhong, Shi, Dai, Da , Qing, Nong, Ying, Qi, Xin, Ming, Society, such as, Cheng, Xue, Zheng, Zong, etc.
The surname Ma is one of the surnames with multiple ethnic groups and origins. It is one of the more common surnames in China and ranks 52nd in "Hundred Family Surnames".
The surname ranks 13th in China today ("China Statistics" Issue 6, 2014). Regarding the origin of the Han surname Ma, "Surname Compilation" records: The Han surname Ma originates from the surname Ying and is inherited from Zhao She. From this point of view, the ancestor of the surname Ma is Zhao She, the king of horse service in the Zhao Kingdom during the Warring States Period of more than 2,000 years. Therefore, Zhao She is the ancestor of the Ma family of the Han nationality in later generations.
Clan culture is a major feature of Chinese culture, and family trees (also known as genealogy) are an important manifestation of clan culture. An excellent family tree records the origin, development and spread of a family. The Ma family tree is a history of the development of the Ma family and a sacred object that maintains the Ma family together.
The Chinese nation has a fine tradition of tracing its origins, which is manifested in the country by rebuilding history books and in families by rebuilding genealogies. The revision of history and genealogy is regarded as an immortal undertaking. The origin of genealogy is generally attributed to "Zhou Guan", but in fact, "Shiben" is the earliest work of genealogy in my country, and Sima Qian's "Historical Records" is based on this. Historically, the Ma surname, like the majority of Chinese clan surnames, attached great importance to the compilation of the clan's history.
Migration and spread of the surname Ma
Ma is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-origin surname. It ranks fourteenth on the current surname list, with a population of about 18.461 million, accounting for About 1.15% of the total population of the country.
The Han surname Ma originally originated in Handan City, Hebei Province during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At the end of the Warring States Period, some of the descendants of the Ma surname moved to Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province. In the following period, the Ma surname continued to develop, and many of them became high-ranking officials in the dynasty.
The family gradually prospered, and eventually Fufeng Maoling (now Maoling, Xingping City, Shaanxi Province) became the development and reproduction center of the Ma family. From the Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in addition to becoming a prominent family in Fufeng Maoling, the Ma surname was also distributed in some places in present-day Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Sichuan, Gansu, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces. Moved to the northwest region, and later moved east again to the Huanghuai region.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi entered Fujian, and they were accompanied by people surnamed Ma from Henan. They settled down in Fujian and later developed into a wealthy family. Ma Yin, a man from Yanling in Xuzhou (now part of Henan Province), joined the army to fight. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, he was named king and established the Chu State, which included the entire province of Hunan today, most of Guangxi and parts of Guangdong and Guizhou, thus making Ma Yin the king. The surname has developed greatly in a vast area and is distributed in various places.
After the Song Dynasty, the number of people with the surname Ma gradually increased in Fujian and Guangdong. In the Ming Dynasty, people with the surname Ma developed further. By the late Qing Dynasty, some people with the Ma surname began to immigrate to Taiwan Province, and then to other countries. China mainly lives in the north, especially the northwest region. The surname Ma is the 13th most common surname in China today. It has a large population and accounts for about one percent of the country's Han population. It is one of the 13 most common surnames of the Hui people in the country.