Surnames are symbols of everyone's family. The ancient Chinese surnames come from totem worship, and many ancient surnames have evolved for thousands of years before they become what they are today. For example, Jiang's surname originated from Shennong, Ji's surname originated from Huangdi and so on. If we check the origin of our surnames, we can trace them back to a very long time.
There are hundreds of surnames in China, and we are all familiar with the formula of Qiansun Zhao, Li, Zhou, Wu and Zheng Wang, but there are actually more than 1 surnames in China, and there are 5662 surnames in the literature, among which there are many rare surnames. Today, the surnames mentioned are the strangest and rare ones in China. It is difficult for people who use these surnames to name them.
The first one is the ghost surname, also known as Kui and Jing. The ancestor of this surname is Ghost Zone. He is a legendary ancient physician and a courtier of the Yellow Emperor. The ghost surname comes from his clan name. In addition, the Xia Dynasty psychic also had a close relationship with the ghost surname, which was related to divination and sacrifice at that time. There is another saying that the ghost surname was handed down by the ghost Fang tribe of the Rongdi nationality in the northwest during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. In a word, ghost is a multi-ethnic surname.
actually, this word is not pronounced "guǐ" in the surname, but "wěi". It's just that when we see this word now, our first reaction is definitely the former, so it's easy to be associated with such bad things as ghosts and monsters, and the meaning is not very good. But ghost surnames are actually very ancient and sacred surnames in ancient times, and they are very rare now.
The second is the death surname, which is mainly distributed in the northwest of China and developed from the compound surname of Xianbei ethnic minority in the Northern Wei Dynasty. After Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty entered the Central Plains from 493 to 496 AD, the death family began to integrate into the Han nationality. In ancient China, there were some superstitions, and the word "death" was a bit unlucky. Later, the family of dead surnames turned it into homophonic thinking, boss and so on, but there are still the original death surnames handed down to this day. This surname is really not a good name. If you want to get a good estimate, you have to break your head.
The third is the urine surname, which can be tied for the third place with the excrement surname, but the excrement surname has at least a historical surname to buffer it, which is not so strange to read, and urine is very straightforward. Urine surname is a rare surname with less than 1 people, which is distributed in Guizhou today. Like excrement surname, there is no way to find the corresponding origin, but on the Internet, urine surnames called "Yuanfang" and "Qianli" can be found, which really makes people laugh and cry.
The fourth surname is Testicular, which can be read well, but it is really indecent to write, which is the most embarrassing surname for girls. In fact, Testicular surname originated in Hao Tao, and was a famous thinker and educator in ancient times, and was honored as "the father of China's judicature" by later generations. Then why did it become a word for testes? It is because ancient testes and Gao were interlinked, so there were testes after Hao Tao. Nowadays, many descendants of Testicular have changed their surnames because they are really embarrassed, so today, people with Testicular surnames in China are becoming more and more rare.
These are the four strangest and rarest surnames in China. They are actually ancient surnames with a long history, but they have been given different meanings in the changes of the times. It is said that naming is a technical job, but no matter what the surname is, it will not affect our life. When we see strange and embarrassing surnames, it is the best choice to laugh them off.