Which county on the tombstone was divided by what?

County refers to the county, which is divided by surname.

In ancient times, it was called the aristocratic family in the county that people admired. The Preface to the Genealogy of Qiu Family in West Guangxi, written by Qiu Chenggong, a university student in Ming Dynasty, in the General Catalogue of Four Encyclopedias: "Since the Tang Dynasty, people have looked up to counties and counties, while Liang Qiu has taken advantage of the obvious integration of Xianggong and his son." According to the Records of Old Tang Dynasty, Chou He and Qiu Xingguo were all called "Xianggong and his son" after their death, so "Xianggong and his son" refers to Chou He and Qiu Xingguo and his son.

County prestige is an important connotation in China's surname culture, and it is the main reason for distinguishing different regions where surnames are agreed and identifying relatives and friends. It is also the basic clue to trace the source and trace the source. In traditional use, people often like to add the county appearance (landform) before their surnames, so that everyone can know the origin and birthplace of surnames at a glance.

The county outlook commonly used in ancient books refers to the aristocratic families of counties from Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to Sui and Tang Dynasties, and refers to a county that is looked up to by local people and is different from other people with the same surname. Because there is more than one place of origin, residence and change of a surname, a surname often has more than one county, but usually one of them is given priority to distinguish between master and slave.

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Surnames, to some extent, continue the ancient tradition of judging nobility by surnames. Listing county names also makes surnames have a clear mainstream and tributary vein in the process of development and reproduction. In history, there were many counties in general surnames, indicating that they were branches and collateral lines derived from the same root or roots in ancient times in different periods.

Generally, county names are surnames, such as Cui Shi in Qinghe and Liu in Hedong.

A surname can have more than one county. Such as Zhang, there are 14 counties, Qinghe, Nanyang, Anding, Dunhuang, Wuwei, Fanyang, Qianwei, Zhongshan, Hanoi and Gaoping;

A region can also have multiple surnames. Take Tianshui City, Gansu Province as an example. There are Zhao, Qin, Yan, Jiang, Pi, Yin, Di, Qiang, Qiu, Shuang, Gui, Zhuang, Ai, Shen, Kan, Na, Quan, Shangguan and other surnames 18.

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