Master Archaeologist

Chapter 194 The same surname does not marry (continued)

"Zhao Lan?"

"This should be the name of Mrs. You?"

Zhuang Yunpeng, who came over, was also a little strange when he heard Chen Han muttering to himself.

He looked up at Professor Li and shouted, "Professor Li, I found Mrs. You's private seal!"

"The right lady's name is Zhao Lan!"

"Didn't you say that people with the same surname are not allowed to marry? It was not allowed for Zhao Hu to marry Zhao Lan in that era, right?"

Professor Li, who was buried in cleaning a copper tripod, straightened his back, walked over, and took the unique ivory seal from Chen Han's hand. After looking at it for a while, he smiled faintly:
"This Zhao is not that Zhao."

"The "Zhao" in Zhao Tuo's family is actually not a surname, but a family name."

"Zhao Tuo is from Changshan County in the Qin Dynasty. During the Warring States period, Changshan County belonged to the State of Zhao, that is, the land of Zhao."

"His name really means Tuo from Zhaodi, or Zhao's Tuo, not Zhao."

"In the history books, there is no record of his surname. There is a high probability that he is just a descendant of a small noble in Zhao. After Qin unified the six kingdoms, he took Zhao as his surname."

When the surname and family name were not united, there was no Zhao surname.

Now all people with the surname Zhao, their surnames all originated from the State of Zhao in the Warring States Period.

Maybe it was the other branch of Zhao Guogong's office, or maybe the ancestors lived in Zhao, and later took Zhao as their surname.

So Zhao Tuo himself is very clear that he does not have a surname, Zhao only has a surname.

It's just that in the Western Han Dynasty, surnames were no longer distinguished, and they didn't get points if they wanted to.

From Liu Bang, the founding emperor, to the Peixian military group that followed him, all of them were ordinary people, and they didn't have "noble" surnames at all.

At most, there is only a clan, for example, Zhang Liang is a nobleman with a clan.

The ancestors of Zhang Liang served as the prime ministers of the Korean kings for five generations in Korea, so the "Zhang family" of his family is the fief family of the eight scriptures.

Except for Zhang Liang, most of the military meritorious groups that founded the Western Han Dynasty had no surnames, let alone surnames.

The surnames of Cao Shen, Zhang Ao, Zhou Bo, Fan Kui, Li Shang, Xi Juan and others actually represent where their ancestors came from.

Cao Shen’s ancestors came from the land of Cao, Zhou Bo’s ancestors lived in the Zhou royal family’s territory, and Fan Kui came from the land of Fan...

Only Xiahou Ying, whose "Xiahou" is a branch of the Xiahou family, can be traced back to the source.

In this way, the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty had no meaning of dividing their surnames.

Everyone's ancestors were not nobles, and they didn't have "noble surnames", so naturally they don't distinguish between surnames now.

The same is true for Zhao Tuo. Zhao Tuo's surname means that he is from Zhao, and perhaps his ancestors were a certain branch of the Zhao royal family.

Professor Li said affirmatively: "The right wife of Zhao Hu may be an immigrant from the six countries, a descendant of immigrants from the Zhao country, so she takes Zhao as her surname."

"Her Zhao and Zhao Tuo's Zhao are not the same Zhao, and the two families can't actually talk about the same ancestor."

"It's like at the end of the Warring States period, Qin Zhuangxiang's prince Chu, and a concubine Zhao was also accepted in the harem."

"Qin and Zhao cannot marry each other, because the two families come from the same ancestor, and they are both members of the Zhao family."

"However, this does not prevent Zichun from being a Zhao Ji, because the "Zhao" of this Zhao Ji only comes from the meaning of Zhao, and does not mean that she comes from the Zhao royal family."

Zhuang Yunpeng nodded with enlightenment.

He followed Kong Jianwen to focus on Xia, Shang and Zhou archaeology.

In the history of the Zhou Dynasty, not marrying with the same surname was a custom that lasted for two weeks and 800 years, and it was deeply rooted.

In addition, the tombs of the Zhou Dynasty that can be found now are all noble tombs, and only nobles buried deep underground can be preserved for thousands of years.

And in these noble tombs, as long as there are things that can prove their identity, it can be found that there will be no couples with the same surname.

This also made him enter the thinking circle, and merged the surnames of Qin and Han, which led to some confusion between the surnames of the common people and the nobles.

So is Chen Han.

He also immediately thought of Zong Zhou's non-marriage with the same surname, and forgot that the definition of "surname" had changed a lot during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

"However, during the Han Dynasty, the same surname non-marriage system was also observed."

"It's just that the same surname was not married in the Han Dynasty, which is more like the non-marriage within the clan during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period."

"For example, the Liu family of the royal family will not intermarry with someone who is also from the royal family and has the surname Liu, even if they are very distant relatives."

"On the contrary, if the surname is not Liu, it's like Empress Lu gave the women of the Lu family to a bunch of princes and kings, and even arranged a niece queen for Liu Ying, that is, Princess Lu Yuan and Zhang Yan, the daughter of Xuanping Hou Zhang Ao. OK."

The non-marriage of the same surname in the Western Han Dynasty is actually the situation of the non-marriage of the same surname in later dynasties.

People with the same surname on the father's side, such as uncle's daughter and son, and uncle's daughter and son, cannot marry because they have the same surname as themselves.

However, if it is a descendant of the matrilineal side, such as the daughter of an uncle, or the descendant of the mother's relatives, the descendants separated by the elder sister and younger sister, they can marry.

That is to say, cousins ​​can intermarry, but cousins ​​cannot.

Compared with Zong Zhou's strict non-marriage of the same surname, the non-marriage of the same surname after the Western Han Dynasty is undoubtedly much more relaxed.

This situation was strictly controlled once in the Tang Dynasty. Even cousins ​​were not allowed to marry in the Tang Dynasty.

But in the Song and Ming Dynasties, it was relaxed again.

Therefore, in the historical records of the Song and Ming Dynasties, as well as in the lives of literati and scholars, it is very common to have childhood sweethearts and cousins.

In Mr. Jin Yong's "Dragon Babu", the fairy sister also wants to marry her cousin!

Of course, it is very rare for an uncle like Liu Ying to marry a niece.

It was Empress Lu who covered the sky with one hand, and was able to do this kind of thing.

However, the result of forcing the cow to drink water will not be good. Throughout his life, Liu Ying did not have children with Queen Zhang.

After Liu Ying, at least in the history books, there is almost no such absurd incident of an uncle marrying a niece.

(This refers to the legal situation. As we all know, there are many princes and kings in the Western Han Dynasty who love to play incest, but incest is the red line of the Western Han Dynasty. After all, the world is governed by filial piety. Will be executed in no time!)
(However, it is not illegal for an uncle to marry a niece, and few people would do so.)
Most of them are marriages between cousins.

Although it is said that the combination of cousins ​​and cousins ​​will indeed have an impact on the genes of offspring, there is a chance of giving birth to deformed children.

But after all, the probability is still not as serious as the marriage of close relatives of immediate relatives.

So this matter was not taken seriously by the ancient dynasty.

The ancients did not look at genes, but only at surnames.

When a female member gets married, the child will not inherit the surname, but will follow the man's surname, so there is no restriction on "no marriage with the same surname".

"So, this Mrs. You's Zhao and Zhao Hu's Zhao are really the two characters Zhao written in one stroke?"

"Not a family?"

After jumping out of this thinking circle, Chen Han's mind immediately became flexible.

He raised his eyebrows, and said indifferently: "Maybe this Mrs. You is born with the surname of Zhao from the Baiyue tribe."

"After Zhao Tuo occupied the Lingnan area, in order to rule the Baiyue under his rule, he probably gave the Baiyue people Chinese surnames and Chinese names."

"Especially the country's surname is Zhao, and there are various big distributions. Maybe four or five of the ten Baiyue tribes will change their surname to Zhao."

"It's not even the same nationality, even if they all have the surname Zhao, it doesn't matter!"

(End of this chapter)