按照当代历史学家的说法,姓是母系币族社会的图腾和族徽演变来的。当时,实行族外同辈婚,甲氏族的同辈众男子,嫁到乙氏族,成为乙氏族同辈众女子的共同丈夫,因而人们只知有母,不知有父。每一母系氏族只知道自己的始祖母。人们探讨自身的来历,却又无法解释清楚,于是就把某一种动物、植物或无生物人格化、神化,认为自己的祖先即始祖母是被这一神化了的动物、植物或无生物所感化而生。因此,这一神物将会永远保护自己。这一神物,就成了这一氏族共同崇拜的“图腾”,成为了甲氏族区别于乙氏族的“族徽”,成为了这一氏族的姓。也许夏氏族是以薏苡为图腾,商氏族是以燕卵为图腾,周氏族是以巨人脚迹为腾图。后人不了解这一历史真象,于是把它看成神话故事。又正因为这一现象出现在母系氏族社会,所以写成文字时,“姓”大多被后人加上“女”旁。《说文》说,神农姓“姜”,黄帝姓”姬”,黄帝之后百(鱼攸)姓“姞”,少昊氏姓“嬴”,藻朦姓“姚”,祝融之后姓“(女云)”,等等,全都从“女”。 According to contemporary historians, surnames are the totem and emblem of a matriarchal society. At that time, the practice of extra-marital peer marriage, clan men of the same clan, married to the clan, became the common clan of the clan siblings of the clan, so that people only knew that there was a mother and did not know that there was a father. Each matriarchal only knows their own grandmother. People explore their own origins, but can not explain clearly, so a certain kind of animal, plant or non-biological personalization, deification, that their ancestors or grandmother was the first of this deified animal, plant or non-biological effect And students. Therefore, this creature will always protect itself. This paranoid object became the “totem” common to this clan and became the “emblem” of Clan Clan being different from clan Clan, becoming the surname of this clan. Perhaps summer clan is Coix for the totem, Shang clan is the egg for the totem, the Zhou clan is a giant footprint Teng map. Descendants do not understand this historical truth, so think of it as a myth. And precisely because this phenomenon appears in the matriarchal clan society, so write the text, the “surname” most of the descendants next to the “female” next. “Said the text,” said Shennong surnamed “ginger”, the Yellow Emperor surnamed “Ji” after the Yellow Emperor hundred (Yau You) surnamed “姞”, less Hao’s surname “嬴” algae Meng name “Yao” Female cloud) “, and so on, all from the” female. "