More than 4,000 years ago, Dayu became the head of his tribe and established the Xia dynasty by virtue of his water control. After the death of Dayu, Bo Yi, who was supposed to be meditated, handed over the throne to Xia Qi, the son of Dayu, and since then, the clan blood relationship has become the main bond of family succession and even national continuity in the Central Plains, and one of the tools to maintain this bond is our family name.
Since ancient times, people attach great importance to the surname, even if the famous people recorded in history do not have a name, they will certainly have a surname, such as Li Shimin Empress Changsun, history only her surname “Changsun”. Therefore, the family name is the root of a person, is a family pulse, in our culture has an extremely important significance.
And through the family name, we can keep going back to our ancestors and past history, find the origin of each of us, and understand the history of the family to which each of us belongs. The Chinese family name is as vast as the sea, and each family name has its own story, which can be said to be all-embracing and wonderful.
And there is such a family name, its origin is not our native China, but from the ancient land of Persia in the West. This surname, called “An” surname.
Since the Han emperor Liu Che sent Wei Qing and Huo Baodi to defeat Xiongnu completely, and Zhang Qian was ordered to go to the West and open up the Silk Road, the Central Plains and the Western countries also began to have contact. At that time, a powerful empire had emerged in the Middle East, which the Romans called the Parthian Empire and which we call the State of Anzac.
The nationals of the Sabbat were mainly Sabbatians, descendants of the ancient Persians, who basically inherited the basic territory and culture of the Persian Empire in the two river basins, but without the expansion of the Persian Empire across Asia, Europe and Africa. After the establishment of the kingdom, the name of the kingdom was used as their family name, which was the Ampathian clan.
When Zhang Qian went to the Western region, he came to the country of Anzhi and learned of the existence of the Ampathian clan, and brought the customs and customs of Anzhi back to Han, while the Han Dynasty was also known to Anzhi in the land of the rising sun in the East.
And in the An Hui Kingdom, an eccentric prince named An Qing was born. While other princes coveted the power of the king, Anqing was obsessed with Buddhism and was not interested in the power of the king at all. Therefore, after the death of the King of Anzhi, An Qing handed over the throne to his uncle and became a monk to study Buddhism.
In 148 A.D., Anqing, who had already achieved a great deal in Buddhism, took a group of people from Anzhi to follow the Silk Road all the way east to Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty, to promote Buddhism, and since he liked the culture of the Middle Kingdom, he simply settled down in Luoyang.
In order to facilitate their life in the Han Dynasty, they began to change their surnames, simplifying their Ampathian surname to An, and began to intermarry with Han Chinese, so this wave of Persian immigrants flourished in the Central Plains.
In addition, during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was the most powerful country in the world, and was known as the “dynasty of all nations”. A nobleman from the Anzhi Kingdom, who admired the Tang culture, came to the Tang Dynasty with more than 5,000 people.
In 650 A.D., An Suguo and his father came to Chang’an to see Li Shimin and gave him many gifts from the West. Li Shimin was very happy and made him an official, and his family stayed in Chang’an. The rest of the people of the Sabbath were resettled in Sichuan and other places, and changed their names to the An surname as well as An Qing, and began to branch out in the Chinese land.
Today, the An surname ranks 79th among the Chinese surnames, and there are still a lot of people in the family. And among these people, some of them are the descendants of Persians.
Of course, to understand these historical knowledge, never to divide the crowd to shape the opposition, but only to seek the source of the root, to further improve our history. At least from the An surname into our country in this process, we can see the inclusiveness of the Chinese nation.
Whether it is the Chinese nation, the sons of China or the sons of Yanhuang, it is never distinguished by national identity, but by cultural identity as the standard. As long as identify with Chinese culture, that is a part of our Chinese nation, and this, is the reason and result of An Qing and An attached country and other people, can be in the Central Plains securely based.
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