English and Chinese Surname

1. English and Chinese Surname

英文的和中文的姓
surname: the name that you share with other members of your family.(你和你的家族公用的名) 就是姓
同义词组 ：family name

2. 急求中国姓氏的英文资料，即Chinese surname,最好包括来源、发展、现状。谢谢！！

　　Chinese surname
　　The Chinese have had surnames long before the period of the Three Emperors and Five Kings, that is, during the time when recognition was given only to one's mother and not one's father. Hence, the Chinese character for surname is made up of two individual characters----one meaning woman and one meaning to give birth. That is to say, the surnames of the early Chinese followed the maternal line. Before the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou (2140-256 BC), the people in China were already having surnames (Xing) and clan-names (Shi). The surnames originated from the name of the village in which one live or the family to which one belonged, while the clan-name derived from the name of the territory or the title granted, sometimes posthumously, by the emperor to a noble for an achievement. Hence, only nobles had surnames as well as clan-names.

　　A man and a woman of the same clan-name could marry each other but they could not if they were of the same surname. This is because the Chinese had discovered, long ago, that marriages of close relatives would be detrimental to future generations.

　　In any solemn ceremony or important celebration, the Chinese have their clan-names written on lanterns which are hung high in a prominent place, such as the main entrance of the house. As a clan-name indicates the ancestral home, it is also carved on a man's tombstone to indicate a hope that he will return there.

　　This went on for 800 years until the rule of Emperor Tang Tai Zong (627 AD). Gao Shi Lian, a government official, made a survey and found that there were a total of 593 different surnames. He then wrote and published a book called "Annal of Surnames" which became a reference for selecting qualified personnel as government officials and for arranging marriages.

　　The book, "Surnames of a Hundred Families", which was popular in China during the old days, was written more than 1,000 years ago during the Northern Song Dynasty (960 AD).It records 438 surnames of which 408 are single-word surnames and 30 were double-word surnames.

　　According to the latest statistics from China, Chinese with the surname Zhang alone number more than 100 million, making it probably the surname which the most number of the Chinese have.

　　Another set of statistics compiled in 1977 reveals that the number of the Chinese with the first 10 major surnames make up 40% of the Chinese population. The 10 major Chinese surnames are: Zhang, Wang, Li, Zhao, Chen, Yang, Wu, Liu, Huang and Zhou.

　　Below are the next 10 major surnames. The Chinese with these surnames make up over 10% of the Chinese population: Xu, Zhu, Lin, Sun, Ma, Gao, Hu, Zheng, Guo and Xiao.

　　The number of the Chinese in the third category of 10 major surnames makes up just about 10% of the population: Xie, He, Xu, Song, Shen, Luo, Han, Deng, Liang and Ye.

　　The following 15 surnames from the fourth largest group of the Chinese surnames are: Fang, Cui, Cheng, Pan, Cao, Feng, Wang, Cai, Yuan, Lu, Tang, Qian, Du, Peng and Lu.

　　A total of 70% of the Chinese population have one of the surnames above. The surnames of the remaining 30% are comparatively rare. Some of these surnames are: Mao, Jiang, Bai, Wen, Guan, Liao, Miao and Chi.

3. history of chinese wu surname (吴)

Chinese : from the name of the ancient state of Wu in what is now Jiangsu province. In the 13th century bc, the state of Zhou was ruled by Tai Wang, who had three sons: Tai Bo, Zhong Yong, and Ji Li. The eldest sons, Tai Bo and Zhong Yong, believing that their father wished the youngest son, Ji Li, to inherit the reins of power, left the Zhou homeland with a group of followers and traveled southeastward to east-central China, where they established the state of Wu. Their descendants eventually adopted Wu as their surname. Ji Li stayed on to rule the Zhou and became the father of the famed virtuous duke Wu Wang, to whom those named Zhou (see Chow) trace their ancestry. Thus, the surnames Wu and Zhou are traced to the same ancestor, Tai Wang.
这个是msn上的
http://landing.msn.ancestry.com/article/meaningofnames.aspx?GT1=6779&o_xid=14368&o_lid=14368&o_xt=14368&sourcecode=14368

History of Chinese surname Wu


The surname Wu dates back to the offspring of Taibo and Zhongyong, both are sons of Gonggong Danfu (Old Duke Danfu) in Zhou Dynasty.

According to historical records, Taibo and his brother originally had the right to throne. However, they found that their father was especially fond of Ji Chang (i.e. later Zhou Wen Wang or Civil King), who was the son of their father's third son Ji Li, so they gave up their rights to Ji Li and then escaped to the area of Dong Wu (East Wu).

Taibo and Zhongyong called themselves "Gou Wu" and "Gong Wu" in Dong Wu area. Local people admired their moral integrity very much and followed their leadership. As the followers increased, they established the State of Wu and set Wu (today's Suzhou of east China's Jiangsu Province) as the capital.

Till the 19th grandson Shoumeng, the powerful State of Wu started hegemony. In late Spring and Autumn period, Fu Chai, king of the State of Wu, was taken in by the scheme of the State of Yue through enticing women and the State of Wu fell. In that disaster, large numbers of people of Wu were expelled out of their homes, some of whom fled afar and some fell slaves for the State of Yue.

The farther the Wu people were away from hometown, the more they missed it, therefore "Wu" more and more stood out as a symbol of blood tie and geographic relations. Having lost their country, people of Wu took "Wu" as their family name. Later, when the State of Yue perished, Wu people in Yue fled and many of them moved to the south, the farthest to Yangshan of Guangdong.

By People's Daily Online

4. "Pool" surname of person in China a little rare.

原句有误。如果想表达“pool姓在中国很少见。”用：The surname "pool" in China is a little rare.
 
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5. 英语题Wangming is a very c( ) surname in China

正确答案如下：commmon
 
解释：common是一个形容词，意思是“常见的”，修饰surname做定语。
 
 
 
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6. 英语题，急求急求啊Wangming is a very c( ) surname in China

common adj.普通的；通俗的

7. 英语任务型阅读The Chinese were the first nation of people to use surname.... 求全文及答案

用搜的基本找不到

8. surname 是姓还是名？

Surname 是姓。
比如：我中文名字叫：王大锤。英文就要写成：Wang Dachui，那么我的 last name 就是我的姓：Wang.
First name和Given name是名。
我的英文名：Wang Dachui，那我的 first name 就是我的名字：Dachui.

扩展资料：
按照英语民族的习俗，一般在婴儿接受洗礼的时候，由牧师或父母亲朋为其取名，称为教名。以后本人可以再取用第二个名字，排在教名之后。英语个人名的来源大致有以下几种情况：
1、采用圣经、希腊罗马神话、古代名人或文学名著中的人名作为教名。
2、采用祖先的籍贯，山川河流，鸟兽鱼虫，花卉树木等的名称作为教名。
3、教名的不同异体。
4、采用（小名）昵称。
5、用构词技术制造新的教名，如倒序，合并。
6、将母亲的娘家姓氏作为中间名。