Hundred Family Surnames Poetic Interest

Author: Chen Zhen Guo (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: When did your surname come about? Trace your roots back to ancestors. The first characters of the common people's homes, with poetic charm in between. This book mainly collects poems where the character is a surname from the Hundred Surnames. Subsequently, annotations are provided for the poems, and the origin of the surname is traced. Reading this book not only allows you to learn poetry and historical allusions but also helps you understand the origins of surnames, making it highly readable.
I. This book collects 300 surnames from the "Hundred Surnames," with an additional 11 compound surnames. The first two surnames are in order, and the subsequent 111 surnames follow in sequence, with black dots marked below each character.
II. Poems, ci, and songs are generally composed according to poetic rules. To avoid obscurity, all quatrains, ci forms, and tunes are untitled, leaving the reader to judge for themselves.
III. The works and allusions cited in the main text are dated up to the Qing Dynasty, primarily based on relevance to the character's meaning and rhyme.
IV. In the poems, there are quoted and imitated lines, which are not annotated but marked with an underscore in the original text instead.
V. If there are errors in the surname annotations, the original cited text should be used as the reference.
VI. Annotations for regional prestige (zhuanwang). Some have been simplified or omitted to save space and can be referred to in other similar annotations.
VII. Due to various reasons, some homophonic characters of complex traditional characters may be retained for use.
VIII. Surnames not included in the "Hundred Surnames" and some related surnames will be supplemented in future volumes to satisfy readers.