What is your surname?

last SG · 2006-11-27T23:32:11+00:00

During the early Zhou Dynasty days, Jiang Taigong was conferred to the State of Qi, with its capital at Ying2(as in camp) Qiu1(as in hill). With his talents...

Dr Who SG

How is the Chinese surname derived? According to Mr. Kiang Kang Hu, author of the book On Chinese Studies, there were 18 sources from which surnames were derived:

* the name of a dynasty (Tang)
* feudal territory or division (Chiang, Huang)
* political district (Hong)
* town (Yin, Su)
* rural villages (Lu, Yen)
* cross-roads and stations (Mi)
* suburbs of direction (Tung-shiang, Xi-men)
* historical personage (Chin, Fu)
* use of a man's social name for a family name (Fang, Kung)
* a custom of adopting the appellation applied to a relative (Meng, Mi)
* clans or tribes (So, Chang)
* official posts (Shih, Shuai)
* titles of nobility (Wang, Hou)
* occupations of trades (Wu, Tao)
* objects (Chu, Pu)
* posthumous titles of rulers (Wen)
* adding a diminutive to the parent name (Wang-tsu, Gong-sun)
* name of contempt applied to an evil-doer by a ruler (Fu, Mang)

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Help.....I cannot find the origin of Singapore's most famous surname.......

and what about yours?

missqi SG

* titles of nobility (Wang, Hou)
I am of noble birth.
Laughing

[email protected] SG

My surname is Luo, can't find it there. Sad

Patrik SG

My surname Lee.
Mr. Green

mhcampboy SG

Where is Lee?

Hogzilla SG

I tell you lah, Singapore most famous surname is derived from a fruit.

During the late Shang period, an official of the Shang Dynasty adviced on the King and kenna executed because of that. His families ran to a place where wild plums were planted and they survive the hunger because of these plums.

Because the pronouncation of their surname, Li (different Li, only the pronouncation is the same), so they use their surname to name the fruit. Then they also adopt the name of the fruit as their the surname and are called Li (meaning plum).

About plum.
In Chinese:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E
In English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum

My surname?

My ancestor is one of the many feudal lord in the Shandong province, but was destroyed by the Qi. Because the land that they were conferred to was by the name, tan, so they adopt the land's name as their surname lor.

Also got another origin lah. The natives in Sichuan Basin, rumoured to be descendant of Pan'gu, took Pan'gu's name as their surname, aka Pan. Then as time goes by, the pronoucation began to sound similar to those of "tan", so they change their surname to tan liao lor.

Hogzilla SG

Luo har?

Wait wait wait, I find for you.

Your ancestor shared the same ancestor as those who were conferred to the state of Chu. They were conferred to a country by the name of Luo.

In the Late Warring period in China, Chu destroyed the Luo state. Because the decendants of the Luo state were disgusted with Chu's action in killing their own brother, they dun use the same surname as them and use their conferred state's name, Luo, as their surname.

Happy with the explaination?

[email protected] SG

Okay lo, but can you tell me the meaning of Luo? Laughing

Hogzilla SG

A place in the present Hubei province.

Haoz30 SG

wah, where u search from de? I also wan to know mine...

"Guan" Cool

Hogzilla SG

You ask TS or me?

I have a book written by a China author that compiles the Hundred Surnames (Bai3 Jia1 Xing4) that is written in Song dynasty. The book speaks of origins of the Surnames.

I bought it a few years ago and I dunno whether is it still on the shelf nowadays.

meltz SG

my is su dong po ... Mr. Green

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Mine is Hong...

Is it the one with the 3 water droplets?

CKeer SG

Mine's Guo(1)! Mr. Green

Cheers.
C.K

shinta SG

yea..

at least that matches what i remembered..

-[0]- SG

Where's Lim???

Anyway, South Korean's version of "Lim" is called "Im". North Korean version is called "Lim" also. I think the South Korean version sounds cooler. Cool

jassiee SG

Don't have my surname Shocked
It's Shen,define?

dragg SG

tan

sand king SG

Yea where is Tan!! my surname is tan call me... tan...

Hogzilla SG

The Pinyin or dialect?