Zhang, a traditional Chinese character with eyes, is made up of a bow and a long left and right. When introducing their surnames to others, people surnamed Zhang all say "bow-bent Zhang", which shows that they attach great importance to the "bow" in their surnames. From the point of view of philology, "bow" is also at the core of the word "Zhang".
Zhang Zi has not been found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but there are many inscriptions on bronze and stone, and their writing styles are also different. Although these characters are written in different ways, they have a basic feature, that is, they are inseparable from the bow, arrow and length, especially the bow. It can be said that there is no Zhang without a bow. Judging from the evolution of glyphs, Zhang was originally a combination of bow and arrow. Bow and arrow are naturally combined, and if there is a bow, there is bound to be a target, so there is no need to emphasize it again. Therefore, later, the arrow gradually withdrew and gave way to the long bow, and finally stabilized into a consortium of long bows. A long bow means that this bow is more powerful than ordinary bows.
Zhang has many meanings. There are 21 meanings in the new Chinese Dictionary, and there are more than ten kinds in general dictionaries, such as exaggeration, opening, strengthening, filling, posting, reading, looking, expanding, arranging, etc. But most of them are derived from later generations, and there are not many meanings in the earliest dictionaries. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" said: "Zhang, bow string is also used. From the bow, long sound. " Guangya? Interpretation III: "Zhang, Shi Ye." There is another meaning, which can be found in Zhou Li? Qiu Guan: "Luo takes birds and beasts and says Zhang." Hu Sansheng in note "history as a mirror? In the Seven Years of Emperor Hanming's Level, it is also said that "it is not the foundation of kindness to work hard and catch": "Zhang, set it up, set it up as a machine trap to serve birds and animals."
There are three main sources of Zhang's surname:
First, he came from the Yellow Emperor and waved as the ancestor
According to the New Tang Book? The Prime Minister's Pedigree Table contains: "The fifth son of Shao Hao Qingyang, the son of the Yellow Emperor, waved his bow and arrow, and his descendants gave him the surname Zhang." This Zhang clan was directly handed down from the Yellow Emperor, which originated in Qingyang of Yincheng, near Jinci in the southwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, and later came from this area.
Zhang's surname is an ancient surname, which originated from a distant legendary era. It is said that Zhang's ancestor's name is "Hua". He is the grandson of the Yellow Emperor (the fifth son of the Yellow Emperor) and a great inventor. He invented the bow and arrow and the net (gu). Bows and arrows and nets, as new production tools at that time, enabled people to hunt more birds and animals, catch more fish and shrimp, and reduce the harm of wild animals to themselves. The clan and tribe where Bo belongs has been producing bows and arrows and nets for generations, so his descendants took "Zhang" as their surname.
Huangdi, Zhang's recognized consanguineous ancestor, was the leader of the Huaxia tribe alliance in the ancient legend era. He ruled the world with virtue, benevolence and faith, selected the virtuous and appointed the competent, and severely punished the stubborn and fierce, thus creating a prosperous time of singing and dancing.
according to "the century of the emperor", the yellow emperor was born because his mother had a treasure attached to it. "(The Yellow Emperor) was born in Shouqiu, was born in Jishui, was blessed with virtue, received a bear, and lived in the hill of Xuanyuan, so she thought it was a name because she was pregnant for twenty-four months." Based on this, later generations deduced two kinds of legends.
A legend says that the Yellow Emperor was born at the time when the Emperor of Heaven descended to earth. At that time, it was the time of Shennong. Shennong's uncle had a son named Shaodian, who was the monarch of Xiongguo (in present Xinzheng County, Henan Province). At that time, the Shaodian clan was intermarrying with the Youqiao clan. So Shaodian married Fu Bao, the daughter of (Insect Joe). One day, Shao Dian and Fu Bao went to the field to farm with wooden stakes. When they were walking, the sky suddenly darkened and the sky was full of stars, just like at night. At this time, Fubao looked up and saw a shiny lightning spinning around the Big Dipper from time to time like a snake. In a flash, the fields were covered with a rich green light. Soon, Attached Bao only felt something move suddenly in her abdomen, which scared her to make a hullabaloo about. When Shaodian hurried back to ask questions, she said nothing. After that, Fubao became pregnant. From the day of pregnancy, after 24 months, that is, on the day of the third year, Fubao gave birth to a boy in Xuanyuan Hill in the northwest of Xinzheng (in Qufu, Shandong). Because he was born in Xuanyuan, he named the child Xuanyuan. Legend has it that Xuanyuan was born talking and was very elf. When he was a child, he saw people building houses on trees, and said, "It is neither convenient nor safe to build houses on trees. Wouldn't it be better to build houses on the ground?" Soon, Shennong heard of this view of the Yellow Emperor, which greatly disappoints him. So the Yellow Emperor built a house on the ground for him to see, and Shennong was convinced.
There is another legend: Fu Bao and Shao Dian moved to Qufu, Shandong Province shortly after they got married ... > >
The origin of Zhang can be traced back to ancient legends.
The Yellow Emperor is the legendary ancestor of all ethnic groups in the Central Plains, and his wife, Lei Zu, is the creator of the legendary method of raising silkworms and managing silkworms, and is worshipped as the silkworm god by later generations. They gave birth to a son with a famous name, and because of the practice of Taitai, they said less, and they were the leaders of Dongyi tribe after Taitai.
Without the fifth name, the official is Gong Zheng (the official in charge of making bows and arrows). He watched the arc star at night, and saw that the arrow nine planets was in the southeast of Sirius, shaped like a giant bow of heaven, and the arrow arrowhead was facing Sirius, so he was inspired to create a bow and arrow and was given the surname Zhang. The original meaning of the word Zhang is winding the bow, and it is extended to opening the bow and longbow, which is closely related to the official name Gong Zheng and the ancient star name arc.
The Zhang family also has a surname based on their ancestors' names. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the state of Jin had Zhang Jie, whose name was Zhang Hou. Later, it took the word grandfather as its surname. From then on, the state of Jin had a surname of Zhang. In 43 BC, after Zhao, Han and Wei San carved up the State of Jin, the population of Zhang was scattered in three vassal states.
Both of these statements explain the origin, reproduction and even becoming the third surname today. First, Zhang's surname has a long history, and it is one of the earliest surnames in China, and it is highly valued. In primitive clan society, hunting is an extremely important means for people to make a living, and the position and function of bow and arrow can be imagined. Moreover, at that time, the few tribes of Dongyi flourished, spreading all over the vast area between Shandong Peninsula, northern Jiangsu and Jianghuai. According to legend, Shang tribes are its direct descendants.
Second, Zhang's surname is widely distributed, and it was found in the State of Jin. With the division of the three families into Jin, it spread all over Zhao, Han and Wei countries, that is, the vast areas in North China and Central Plains today.
Many people have been given their surnames changed to Zhang; For example, in the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang gave Long You the name of Zhang; Zhang Liao, the general of Cao Wei, was originally a Nie, and later changed his surname to Zhang. Many non-Han people change their surnames to Zhang. The Tejia family in the Jin Dynasty took Zhang as their surname because they lived in Zhanghuangbao for generations. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were many people in Mongolia and Semu who changed their surnames to Han, and they often changed their surnames to * * *, which also expanded the population of Zhang.
According to records, in the Jin Dynasty, the Zhang family of the Central Plains moved to Fujian; During the general chapter of Tang Gaozong, Zheng Chen and Chen Yuanguang were ordered to enter Fujian, accompanied by the Central Plains Zhang Military Academy. After Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi entered Fujian, Zhang Mu, a native of Gushi, Henan Province, accompanied them to live in Meixi, Gutian, and was later named Liang Guogong. Fujian Zhang, roughly divided into Jianhu, Jinpo, Bange and other schools according to their place of residence, later moved to Guangdong, and all said that their ancestors came from Gushi, Gwangju, Henan. From the beginning of Qing Dynasty, people from Fujian and Guangdong Zhang moved to Taiwan Province one after another, and many people went overseas to make a living.
Zhang's family is mostly from the north, mainly from the Han nationality, but many people have merged into ethnic minorities in many great ethnic integrations. Zhang, who emigrated overseas, is now mainly distributed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, the United States, Britain, France, Australia, Panama and other countries and Hong Kong.
The origin of Li Zhang, a hundred surnames, is as follows:
It comes from Ji, the son of the Yellow Emperor in ancient times, and belongs to the title of official. According to the New Tang Book? The Prime Minister's Lineage Table states: "The fifth son of the Qingyang family of Shao Hao, the son of the Yellow Emperor, waved his bow and arrow, and his descendants gave him the surname Zhang.
from the descendants of the surname of the Yellow Emperor Ji. According to "Tongzhi? According to A Brief Introduction to Clans, in the Spring and Autumn Period, a doctor in the State of Jin called Zhang Jie, whose name was Zhang Hou, and his grandson named his surname, also known as Zhang.
from the given surname or his surname. According to the Minutes of Reading Historical Records, Long Youna, the chief of Nanman who lived in Yunnan, was given the surname Zhang by Zhuge Liang of Shu in the Three Kingdoms, and later his descendants took Zhang as their surname.
It originated from the ancient Xi nationality, which came from the Xi nationality in the Tang Dynasty, and belonged to the emperor's gift of changing the Han surname into the surname. Xi nationality is an ancient nationality that lived in Tang, Song, Liao and Jin dynasties. In historical documents, people of Xi nationality are often remembered as Xi people and Xi hui. During the Tang Dynasty, the Zhang family of the Xi nationality came from the emperor.
Originated from other ethnic minorities, it belongs to Chinese culture and changed its surname to surname. Today, Achang, Naxi, Wa, Yao, Zhuang, Li and Gaoshan Zhang are mainly distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan Province and other areas, while Tibetan Zhang is mainly distributed in Qinghai, * * *, Sichuan, Guizhou and other Tibetan inhabited areas, and the origin of his surname needs to be verified.
The seventh son of the Japanese famous Silla Saburo Yuanyiguang, Yuanjueyi traveled to Korea in 185, the second year of Yingde, to escape the revenge of the orphan of Yuanyizhong who was murdered by Yuanyiguang. Under the protection of the Korean Koryo Dynasty, Yuanjigeyi took the story of Silla Saburo as its name and the prototype of Silla Saburo as Zhang Baohao, so he took Zhang as his Miao character and Zhang as his generation.
Zhang, one of the top ten surnames of Chinese in the world, is currently the third surname in Chinese mainland, with 87.52 million people, accounting for 6.83% of the total population of the country. It is one of the three largest people with the same surname in the world and ranks 24th in Hundred Surnames.
The origin of Zhang Zi. Zhang is an pictographic character, which looks like a person who wants to shoot with a bow
. The traditional Chinese characters are eye-catching, which are formed by the combination of bow and length. When people surnamed Zhang introduce their surnames to others, they all say "bow-bending Zhang", which shows that they attach great importance to the "bow" in their surnames. From the point of view of philology, "bow" is also at the core of the word "Zhang".
Zhang Zi has not been found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but there are many inscriptions on bronze and stone, and their writing styles are also different. Although these characters are written in different ways, they have a basic feature, that is, they are inseparable from the bow, arrow and length, especially the bow. It can be said that there is no Zhang without a bow. Judging from the evolution of glyphs, Zhang was originally a combination of bow and arrow. Bow and arrow are naturally combined, and if there is a bow, there is bound to be a target, so there is no need to emphasize it again. Therefore, later, the arrow gradually withdrew and gave way to the long bow, and finally stabilized into a consortium of long bows. A long bow means that this bow is more powerful than ordinary bows.
Zhang has many meanings. There are 21 meanings in the new Chinese Dictionary, and there are more than ten kinds in general dictionaries, such as exaggeration, opening, strengthening, filling, posting, reading, looking, expanding, arranging, etc. But most of them are derived from later generations, and there are not many meanings in the earliest dictionaries. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" said: "Zhang, bow string is also used. From the bow, long sound. " Guangya? Interpretation III: "Zhang, Shi Ye." There is another meaning, which can be found in Zhou Li? Qiu Guan: "Luo takes birds and beasts and says Zhang." Hu Sansheng in note "history as a mirror? In the Seven Years of Emperor Hanming's Level, it is also said that "it is not the foundation of kindness to work hard and catch": "Zhang, set it up, set it up as a machine trap to serve birds and animals."
▲ There are three main sources of Zhang's surname:
First, after the Yellow Emperor, he was the ancestor
According to "New Tang Book? The Prime Minister's Pedigree Table contains: "The fifth son of Shao Hao Qingyang, the son of the Yellow Emperor, waved his bow and arrow, and his descendants gave him the surname Zhang." This Zhang clan was directly handed down from the Yellow Emperor, which originated in Qingyang of Yincheng, near Jinci in the southwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, and later came from this area.
Zhang's surname is an ancient surname, which originated from a distant legendary era. It is said that Zhang's ancestor was named "Hua". He was the grandson of the Yellow Emperor (the son of the Yellow Emperor) and a great inventor. He invented the bow and arrow and the net (gu). Bows and arrows and nets, as new production tools at that time, enabled people to hunt more birds and animals, catch more fish and shrimp, and reduce the harm of wild animals to themselves. The clan and tribe where Bo belongs has been producing bows and arrows and nets for generations, so his descendants took "Zhang" as their surname.
Huangdi, Zhang's recognized consanguineous ancestor, was the leader of the Huaxia tribe alliance in the ancient legend era. He ruled the world with virtue, benevolence and faith, selected the virtuous and appointed the competent, and severely punished the stubborn and fierce, thus creating a prosperous time of singing and dancing.
according to "the century of the emperor", the yellow emperor was born because his mother had a treasure attached to it. "(The Yellow Emperor) was born in Shouqiu, was born in Jishui, was blessed with virtue, received a bear, and lived in the hill of Xuanyuan, so she thought it was a name because she was pregnant for twenty-four months." Based on this, later generations deduced two kinds of legends.
A legend says that the Yellow Emperor was born at the time when the Emperor of Heaven descended to earth. At that time, it was the time of Shennong. Shennong's uncle had a son named Shaodian, who was the monarch of Xiongguo (in present Xinzheng County, Henan Province). At that time, the Shaodian clan was intermarrying with the Youqiao clan. So Shaodian married Fu Bao, the daughter of (Insect Joe). One day, Shao Dian and Fu Bao went to the field to farm with wooden stakes. When they were walking, the sky suddenly darkened and the sky was full of stars, just like at night. At this time, Fubao looked up and saw a shiny lightning spinning around the Big Dipper from time to time like a snake. In a flash, the fields were covered with a rich green light. Soon, Attached Bao only felt something move suddenly in her abdomen, which scared her to make a hullabaloo about. When Shaodian hurried back to ask questions, she said nothing. After that, Fubao became pregnant. From the day of pregnancy, after 24 months, that is, on the day of the third year, Fubao gave birth to a boy in Xuanyuan Hill in the northwest of Xinzheng (in Qufu, Shandong). Because he was born in Xuanyuan, he named the child Xuanyuan. Legend has it that Xuanyuan was born talking and was very elf. When he was a child, he saw people building houses on trees, and said, "It is neither convenient nor safe to build houses on trees. Wouldn't it be better to build houses on the ground?" Soon, Shennong heard of this view of the Yellow Emperor, which greatly disappoints him. So the Yellow Emperor built a house on the ground for him to see, and Shennong was convinced.
Another legend says that Fu Bao and Shao Dian moved to Shouqiu in Qufu, Shandong Province shortly after they got married. On an early winter night, attached > >
What is the origin of Zhang Zi? The origin of Zhang's surname can be traced back to ancient legends. Zhang's surname originated from Puyang ",according to the information provided by China Academy of Sciences, the compilation of" Henan? The map of Hometown of the Most Popular Surnames shows that 78 of the 1 most frequently used surnames are from Henan. Among them, Zhang surname and Yao surname originated from Puyang. The main basis is: 1. Historical facts. 2. Cultural relics. 3. genealogical records. 4. Contemporary research achievements. In 1999, China held the "World Horticultural Exposition" in Kunming, and a monument titled "Surnames Originated from Henan" was erected in the Expo Park.
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