Hundreds of Surnames collected 4 1 1 surnames, and then added 568 surnames, including 444 single surnames and 24 compound surnames, but there was no "dead" surnames.
The surname "death" is mainly distributed in the northwest of China and developed from the four-character compound surname of the ethnic minorities in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The death surname is a very old surname of Xianbei nationality, which was sinicized in Sui, Tang and Han dynasties. Everyone was integrated into the Han nationality, but the population was sparse.
According to the investigation results of China Academy of Sciences, the dead family ranks second from the bottom among the three surnames of "Nan (pronounced silent)" and "Shan (pronounced shān)", with a total population of about 1000 people, only scattered in Luoyang, Kaifeng and wuzhong, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. However, the dead are rare.
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The origin of the surname "death";
The surname of "death" originated from Xianbei nationality and came from the Tuoba Department of Xianbei in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Clan, belonging to the clan name. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were some in the Tuoba Department of Xianbei. (? ) There are four clan tribes, Zi, Du and Bo. Their tribes are named after the tribal names, and they are divided into two parts after localization? Stone (? Stone), Zi Shi, Bo Shi, and passed down from generation to generation.
In ancient times, "? (? ) "is an archaic word for" death ",so? Stone (? ) is death. Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved his capital from Pingcheng (now Datong, Shanxi) to Luoyang (now Luoyang, Henan), and entered the Central Plains in the seventeenth to twentieth years of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 493-496). Like most Xianbei people, history (death history) gradually merged into the Han nationality.
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