Baitangtang couplet

Author: Li Qiao
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: ig">This book includes 582 Chinese surnames from ancient to modern times, in addition to the 504 surnames collected in The Extended Hundred Surnames, it also adds contemporary surnames with a larger population. Surnames' ancestral halls (tanghao) and hall couplets (tanglian) originate from the development of surnames. This book features 580 surnames and 2,000 hall couplets, presenting a beautifully crafted collection of folk couplets, a concise history of surnames, and a narrative of the culture of ordinary people. The book is extensively researched, well-documented, logically supported, and written in an accessible and easy-to-understand manner. Each surname in the book is treated as a separate unit, including sections on the surname, its pronunciation, origin, ancestral halls, and hall couplets. The section on surname origins provides a brief and concise introduction to the origins of the surnames, with references to 1–3 relevant documents. To save space, references in the main text are presented in code form. The specific documents referenced by the codes can be found in the Bibliography of Cited Works at the end of the book.