Cen Geng’s explanation officially began.

He said that in ancient my country's society, the social and geographical environment was very complex, and people were scattered in various places. In order to facilitate mutual connection, distinction and interaction, people among the groups gradually formed code surnames with their own characteristics.

The mysterious surname originated and became a unique treasure in Chinese culture.

Therefore, the origin of surnames can be traced back to primitive society five thousand years ago.

Surnames are divided into surnames and clans. Surnames and clans are the symbols of a tribe. Surnames are the subject and clans are branches. The two are different and connected with each other.

In primitive society, the earliest function of "school" was to distinguish human groups.

Why distinguish between human groups?

That is because in the matriarchal clan era, with the continuous development of society and productivity, people with blood gathered together to produce and live, forming the original tribe.

In the tribal social era, we gradually gained a new understanding of marriage. We found that marriage between close relatives of the same blood relationship was often unhealthy. We gradually realized that marriage should occur between non-near relatives.

Therefore, the marriage between men and women among various ethnic groups gradually entered the cross-border marriage from the most primitive chaos.

Since it was a matriarchal society at the beginning, many people only knew their mothers, but not their fathers, and the children born from mating by men and women can only be raised by the clan where their mothers are located, which has led to the phenomenon of everyone in every tribe clan being a grandmother.

Later, with the continuous development of history, the continued progress of productivity and the continued improvement of production level, people gradually had fixed places of residence. In order to produce and live and marry men and women, it was also the original codename between tribes to distinguish each other, thus forming the original codename.

"Secret" came into being like this.

After the emergence of "school", one of its main functions is to distinguish the descendants of different races in the tribe and facilitate intermarriage between different races.

Therefore, the emergence of surnames marks the transformation of people from group marriage system to blood relationship marriage system, and is an important milestone in the progress of human civilization.

The surname is the main body and represents the origin of the ancestors. Therefore, the surname cannot be changed. There is a proverb in the folk in our country that indicates that the surname cannot be changed, "A real man will not change his name, and he will not change his surname." The surnames passed down by his ancestors have basically not changed from generation to generation.

The surname originated from the matriarchal primitive society, so at that time, the surname "subject" was next to the character "female".

Among them, eight surnames are the most famous, namely: Ji, Yao, Gui, Si, Jiang, Ying, Yan, and Yan.

We call it the eight major surnames in ancient times.

These eight surnames are the origin of all surnames and are also treasures. Most of our current surnames evolved from these eight surnames.

"Eight major surnames in ancient times?" Almost all parents and netizens heard about it for the first time, which made them feel a little excited, especially parents and netizens with these eight castes.

"Wow! My surname is Gui. There are very few people with this surname, and it is a bit rare. Many people don't know it. I don't know how to pronounce it. I have said countless times, 'gui, pronounce gui.' This made me feel a little depressed. Now I know that our surname is actually one of the eight major surnames in ancient times. It is the origin of the surname. Suddenly I feel so awesome."

"My surname is Si. This surname is also rare. Many people don't know it. The number of people with the surname Si in the country is probably smaller than the number of people with the surname Gui. It seems that there are less than five thousand people. It is an absolute small surname. However, I didn't expect that it was one of the eight major surnames in ancient times. I suddenly felt very awesome."

"My surname is Jiang. I only know that this surname was awesome in ancient times, named Jiang Ziya. Now I know that it was one of the eight major surnames in ancient times. It was awesome! Awesome!"

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Parents and netizens with the Eight Great Surnames were very excited. These eight Great Surnames are all small surnames today, especially rare surnames such as Gui, Si, Ying, Yan, and Yan. However, they did not expect that these surnames were the oldest surnames, with a history of four or five thousand years. This made parents and netizens with these surnames feel that their surnames were so awesome.

All were very excited.

And Cen Geng's explanation continues.

I just finished talking about the origin of "school", so let's talk about the origin of "school".

The clan is a branch of the surname, which evolved from the surname.

We all know that primitive society was originally a matriarchal society, but later it gradually developed into a patriarchal society.

This is because with the continuous development of productivity, stronger and more powerful men have gradually become the main producers of society.

In patriarchal society, people's productivity level has been greatly improved, and the average life expectancy of people has been extended. In addition, the birth rate of the population has been greatly improved, and the mortality rate has gradually decreased. This has led to an increasing number of people in the tribe, and the natural ecological environment of the tribe's area is gradually insufficient to support more population development.

Therefore, some people migrated to other areas and formed multiple new tribes.

The original tribe and multiple new tribes have the same surname, which is difficult to distinguish.

In order to distinguish these tribes with the same surname, a new name was derived based on the surname, which was "Shi".

This happened to the sage.

The emergence of the clan also made a difference between tribes with the same surname.

Later, the clan specifically refers to the leader of the tribe.

For example, the Huangdi, who we are very familiar with, is also called Xuanyuan.

The "scholar" here can only be qualified to be called a tribe leader.

Of course, there are different opinions about the emergence of the sage.

For example, in the patriarchal society, the population is increasing and the number of tribes increases. As this continues, people gradually no longer have equality, but there is a distinction between high and low.

This is an inevitable result of social development.

When a distinction between people is divided into high and low, then gradually there are slaves, civilians, and nobles, the entire society gradually transitions toward a slave society.

At this time, in order to show their differences with those slaves and civilians, some nobles added another clan after their surnames.

This is another saying that the emergence of the Sakura.

Through this statement, we can see that nobles have surnames and clans, while slaves and civilians only have surnames and no clans.

Therefore, it can also be said that the emergence of the clan marks the step of human history into a class society.

Therefore, there is also a saying that women call "subject" and are used to distinguish marriages, while men call "subject" and are used to show the noble and humble state.

The origin and function of the clan are slightly more complicated than the "school", but the clan appears after the "school" and is a branch of the clan, which evolves from the clan, which is certain.

The surname He is the product of the progress of human society and the two stages of civilization.
Chapter completed!