Chapter 77 Why "Zhao Qian Sun Li"?

It is a well-known enlightenment book that has been widely circulated in China. It is said that it was written by an old Confucian scholar in Qiantang, Zhejiang (now Hangzhou) in the early Northern Song Dynasty.It adopts a four-character style, and every sentence rhymes, which is easy to read, pleasant to hear, and easy to learn and remember. The tradition of Chinese surnames has gone through thousands of years of continuous evolution.It has been a widely spread and profoundly influential enlightenment reading for a thousand years.At that time, Zhejiang was the land of Qian, the king of Wu and Yue. Because Qian descended to Song Dynasty, "Zhao" was the first surname in Song Dynasty; The surname of the concubine; "Li" is the surname of the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the common surname in Jiangnan.The next row is "the surname of the country, which rhymes casually".

Academic circles believe that it is very likely that there was a copy before the Song Dynasty, and it was processed into a book by a Confucian student in the Wuyue area in the early Northern Song Dynasty.For more than a thousand years, it has been reprinted countless times, and there are many editions. There are also various "Continued Hundred Surnames" and "Enriched Hundred Family Surnames", which were deleted and supplemented by many people at different times. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the government came forward to compile and promulgate the new "Hundred Surnames of the Ming Emperor" and "Hundred Surnames of the Imperial System", in an attempt to replace Zhao and Song, but failed.The "Hundred Surnames of the Ming Emperor" compiled by the government in the early Ming Dynasty began with the national surname "Zhu" and began with "Zhu Fengtian Yun". It included 1968 surnames and was presented to Zhu Yuanzhang in the 14th year of Hongwu, but the folks could not promote it. Has been lost so far.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, the official revised "The Hundred Surnames of the Imperial Family". This book does not accept the surnames of Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, but only Han surnames. It cannot start with the imperial surname "Aixinjueluo", so it starts with the surname of Confucius. , in fact, it rearranged the 408 single surnames and 30 double surnames that were circulated at that time, and marked the prefecture after each, which is an adapted version, but the clear version did not become popular.The most popular ones are those of "Zhao Qian Sun Li Zhou Wu Zheng Wang".