The Evolution of Chinese Surnamesand Surname Frequency inDifferent Dialect Zones

I.TheEvolutionofChineseSurnamesTheuseofsurnamesisoneaspectoflanguage.Surnamesoriginatedfromnamesofancienttribes,andtogetherwithpersonalnamestheybecamesymbolstoidentifyindividuaIs.Chinesesurnamesoriginatedveryearlyandwentthroughalongevolutionaryprocess.Thesurnamescurrentlyinuseareproductsofthislonghistoricaldevelopment.TheevolutionofChinesesurnamescanbedividedintothreephasesfmatriarchalclannames(xing);thecoexistenceofmatriarchalclannameswithpatriarchalsurnames(shi);andpatriarchalfamilynamesa…     

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李姓为当代中国第一大姓，人口约有9200多万，加上海外华裔中的李姓人氏，总数超过1亿，是当今世界上最大的同姓人群。