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Chinese surname - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3431 words) |
 | A Chinese surname, family name (Chinese: 姓; pinyin: xìng) or clan name (氏; shì), is one of the hundreds or thousands of family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups in mainland China, Taiwan, and among ethnic Chinese in overseas Chinese communities. |
| Surname identity and solidarity has declined markedly since the 1930s with the decline of Confucianism and later, the rise of Communism in Mainland China. |
| During the Cultural Revolution, surname culture was actively persecuted by the government with the destruction of ancestral temples and genealogies. |
| Chinese Genealogy - The Origin and Influence of the Bai Jia Xing - Chinese Book of Hundred Surnames (877 words) |
| The earliest mention of the Bai Jia Xing was in a poem by Lu You, a patriotic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. The poem was entitled Qiu Ri Xiao Ju. |
| During the Song Dynasty, a scholar believed that Sun was the surname of imperial concubines. |
| Li was the surname of the ruler, Li Houzhu, of the Nantang period. |
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