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Chinese surnames have a history of over 3,000 years. Chinese mythology, however, reaches back further to the legendary figure Fuxi (with the surname Feng), who was said to have established the system of Chinese surnames to distinguish different families and prevent marriage of people with the same family names. [8]
Chinese family names are patrilineal, meaning derived from father to children. [8] [9] After marriage, Chinese women typically retain their maiden name. [10]Two distinct types of Chinese surnames existed in ancient China: Namely xing (Chinese: 姓; pinyin: xìng) or ancestral clan names, and shi (Chinese: 氏; pinyin: shì) or branch lineage names.
Earlier Chinese societies were commonly matriarchal, so family names from the time typically passed from women to their children. Because of this phenomenon, these eight surnames have a component of their hanzi representing the character woman (女). [1] [4] As of 2019, very few people had one of these surnames as a family name. [2]
A series of Chinese surnames Eight Great Surnames of Chinese Antiquity Pages in category "Eight Great Surnames of Chinese Antiquity" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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The Mongol Yuan dynasty became the first conquest dynasty in Chinese history to rule the entirety of China proper and its population as an ethnic minority. The dynasty also directly controlled the Mongol heartland and other regions, inheriting the largest share of territory of the eastern Mongol empire , which roughly coincided with the modern ...
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