How many surnames are there in China? The statistics vary in different periods: Ying Shao's "Customs" of the Han Dynasty included nearly 500.

Lin Bao's "Yuanhe Surname Compilation" of the Tang Dynasty contains 1,232 names.

Zheng Qiao's "Tongzhi Clan Brief" of the Song Dynasty contains 1,745 items.

Ma Duanlin's "Tongkao of Documents" in the Yuan Dynasty included 3736 items.

Wang Qi's "Tongkao of Xuwen" in the Ming Dynasty included 4657 items.

The "Chinese Surname Calligraphy Dictionary" recently compiled by Chen Lipu contains 10,129 surnames, including more than 8,000 Han surnames and more than 2,000 ethnic minority surnames.

According to the latest report of China News and Publication on January 15, 2001, the number of ancient and modern Chinese surnames currently owned by Chen Lipu has reached 15,142, setting a record for the largest collection of surnames.

How many are the most commonly used surnames? The so-called "common surnames" are also a relative concept within a certain historical period and region.

For example, the popular version of "Hundred Family Surnames" contains 438 surnames, which can only be regarded as common surnames within the Han nationality in the early Northern Song Dynasty.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Wu Chen, editor of the Hanlin Academy, was ordered to compile "A Thousand Surnames of the Emperor Ming Dynasty", which included 1968 surnames, which were commonly used surnames at that time.

Nowadays, those who engage in surname research mostly rely on the research results of Mr. Du Ruofu and Mr. Yuan Yida of the Institute of Genetics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as their authoritative statement.

Based on the random sampling data of the mainland population in 1987 and Taiwan's surname statistics provided by the National Bureau of Statistics, Du and Yuan, through computer processing, determined that there are 11,969 Chinese surnames, including 5,327 single surnames and 6,642 compound surnames (the vast majority

Most of them are ethnic minority surnames); there are currently about 3,050 Han surnames that are still in common use. The top 100 surnames in order of the population they belong to are: Table 22: The top 100 "major surnames" in modern China 1.

Li 2.

King 3.

Zhang 4.

Liu 5.

Chen 6. Yang 7.

Zhao 8.

Huang 9. Zhou 10.

Wu 11. Xu 12. Sun 13.

Hu 14.

Zhu 15.

High 16.

Lin 17.

He 18. Guo 19.

Horse 20.

Roman 21.

Liang 22．

Song Dynasty 23.

Zheng 24.Xie 25．

Han 26．

Tang 27．

Feng 28.

Yu 29. Dong 30. Xiao 31. Cheng 32.

Cao 33.

Yuan 34.

Deng 35.

Xu 36. Fu 37．

Shen 38.

Zeng 39.

Peng 40．

Lu 41.

Su 42. Lu 43.

Chiang 44．

Cai 45. Jia 46.

Ding 47.

Wei 48. Xue 49.

Ye 50. Yan 51.

52．

Pan 53.

Du 54. Dai 55.

Summer 56．

Chung 57.

Wang 58.

Field 59．

Ren 60. Jiang 61. Fan 62.

Square 63．

Stone 64.

Ascaris 65.

Tan 66.Liao 67．

Zou 68．

Bear 69．

Gold 70．

Lu 71.

Hao 72. Kong 73.

White 74.

Choi 75.

Kang 76．

Mao 77．

Qiu 78. Qin 79.

Jiang 80．

History 81.

Gu 82.

Hou 83．

Zhao 84. Meng 85.

Dragon 86.

Wan 87. Duan 88.

thunder 89．

Money 90. Soup 91.

Yin 92．

Li 93.

Easy 94.

often 95．

Wu 96. Qiao 97.

Congratulations 98.

Lai 99.

Gong 100.

Text This is on a nationwide basis. If statistics are divided into regions, the situation will be different.

For example, in the 1970s, there were 1,027 common Han surnames in Taiwan, and the order of the top 100 Han surnames was: Table 23: The top 100 "major surnames" in Taiwan 1.

Chen 2.

Lin 3.

yellow 4．

Zhang 5. Li 6. Wang 7. Wu 8.

Cai 9.

Liu 10.

Yang 11. Xu 12. Zheng 13.

Thank you 14.

Guo 15. Lai 16.

Zeng 17. Hong 18. Qiu 19.

Week 20．

leaves 21．

Liao 22．

Xu 23. Zhuang 24. Su 25.

Jiang 26.

Ho 27.

Xiao 28.

Luo 29. Lu 30. Gao 31.

Peng 32. Zhu 33.

James 34.

Hu 35. Jane 36. Shen 37.

Shi 38.

Ke 39.

Lu 40.

Yu 41. Weng 42. Pan 43.

Travel 44.

Wei 45．

Yan 46.

Liang 47. Zhao 48. Fang 49. Sun 50.

Bell 51．

wear 52．

Du 53. Lian 54. Song 55.

Deng 56.

Cao 57.

Hou 58. Wen 59. Fu 60. Lan 61.

Jiang 62. Feng 63.

White 64.

Tu 65. Jiang 66. Yao 67.

Zhuo 68.

Tang 69. Stone 70.

Tang 71. Horse 72. Witch 73.

Wang 74．

Ji 75.

Dong 76．

Tian 77. Ou 78. Kang 79. Zou 80.

Especially 81.

Occupy 82.

Xue 83. Yan 84. Zhong 85.

Cheng 86．

Gong 87.

Ding 88.

Tong 89. Li 90. Gold 91.

Han 92. Money 93.

Summer 94．

Yuan 95. Ni 96. Ruan 97.

Liu 98．

Mao 99. Luo 100.

Mouth Comparing the two data with each other, we can see the local characteristics of common surnames.

What gives Taiwanese compatriots the strongest sense of identity is that this ranking of surnames is almost a replica of the ranking of surnames in Fujian and Guangdong, thus becoming "the most concrete explanation that the residents of Taiwan and the mainland are connected by flesh and blood from beginning to end" (Peng Guifang's "

The Story of "Tangshan Crossing Taiwan").