有统计表明,中国还在使用和已经消亡的姓氏超过7000个。宋人编著的《百家姓》一书中共收录较普遍使用的姓氏就有411个。假如你是一个中国人,你便享有其中的一个姓氏。假如有人问你,贵姓何来?你将如何回答?姓和氏原本是两个不同的概念。姓原先是当作一个部族(部落)的族号,所有同部族的人共同享有一个姓。氏是表示同部族之内子孙裔派之间的分支 Statistics show that more than 7,000 surnames are still in use and have died in China. Song compiled by the “hundred family name,” the book contains a more commonly used surname there are 411. If you are a Chinese, you will have one of the surnames. If someone asks you, what’s your name? How would you answer? Surnames and He were originally two different concepts. Surname was originally regarded as a tribal (tribe) family, all tribe share a family name. ’S is the branch between descendants of the same tribe