What rare China surnames have you met?

The rarest is probably Xuanyuan, which seems to exist only in myths.

Other rare ones are:

There are more than 300 surnames in Caiping Village, Caihuaping Town, Youxian County, which is one of the villages with the least surnames in China.

There are also firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, all of which are surnames. Except firewood and rice, there are few others.

oil

According to the statistics of relevant departments, among the above surnames, there are 7 people with the first surname "You" in Jiangsu Province, including 3 "male wanderers" and 4 "female wanderers". The oldest "female wanderer" is 69 years old in Guannan, northern Jiangsu, and the oldest "male wanderer" is 43 years old in Nanjing (his daughter is 15 years old this year).

salt

What has made great progress is that after several days of searching, this newspaper finally found 13 "salt jars" from the population of about 80 million in Jiangsu Province. Among them, the oldest is a 90-year-old woman in Suining County, northern Jiangsu Province, while the youngest "Yantan" lives in Danyang, Jiangsu Province, and is a girl who just turned 7 this year.

Sauce; I see

In fact, according to the prediction before the event, among the above surnames, the surname "Jiang" is the hardest to find. But this time, through our unremitting efforts and strong support from relevant departments, we actually found a total of 14 people in other provinces. These six men and eight women are distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei and Henan, belonging to four ethnic groups: Han, Miao, Dong and Bai. Take a closer look and find so many "sauces" that people are dumbfounded. What's even more surprising is that there are two people with the same name in Suizhou City, Hubei Province, one was born in 1983 and the other was born in 1985. They are from the same village. It is estimated that "bean curd with soy sauce" is a famous local dish.

vinegar

In the search for the surname "vinegar", the results are consistent with the previous survey results. The "Vinegar Institute" of Nanjing Hohai University and the "Vinegar Wave" of Nanjing University of Science and Technology occupy two seats, and no third person can be found in the province. It seems that in addition to "sauce", the surname "vinegar" is the most precious in Jiangsu Province.

tea

Following the excavation of the "six major camellias" in Nanjing, a total of male and female camellias 107 were found in southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu. According to preliminary understanding, most of them are "camellia" married to Jiangsu from Yunnan and Guizhou.

In addition, the editorial department of the latest issue of chinese national geography magazine also sorted out the surnames of China people. Niankou Village, Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province, June 5438+1October 65438+March 2007. Ma, a photographer from China National Geographic magazine, led dozens of villagers to take group photos. Because these villagers are surnamed "Fifth". The surname "five" is actually not uncommon. In ancient times, from "the first" to "the eighth" were surnames, and the last eight words in Hundred Surnames were "the fifth word is convincing, and the hundred surnames ended".

Zodiac animals in Taiwan Province Province all have surnames.

It is reported that in the recent census registration, all kinds of very rare surnames have entered the sight of enumerators, such as "ah", "oh", "Ge", "ten", "hundred" and "thousand". There are surnames named after animals, such as cranes, monkeys, tigers, phoenixes and finches, and surnames with swords and shadows, such as sticks, whips, soldiers and halberds. These little-known surnames are called "panda surnames" by netizens. According to the statistics of census workers in some places, there are hundreds of extremely rare "panda surnames", such as "some", "jiao", "fairy", "farewell", "crying" and "watching".

Most people in China are only familiar with "hundreds of surnames", but now the related concept of "panda surnames" has quietly become popular on the Internet and entered the online encyclopedia. The newly published China Surnames Dictionary contains 238 China surnames13, the longest of which is 10. All surnames are ok, east, west, north and south, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. There are more than 7000 surnames still in use.