First, after the Southern Middle School in the Zhou Dynasty, the ancestral name was taken as the surname.

According to the book Yuan Yunpu's, Pan Geng, a princess of Shang Dynasty, conceived Magnum in her arms and gave birth to a son in December. When I grew up, I was in charge of Jingzhou and named it "Nan Chilong". Her great-grandson, Nan Zhong, was a doctor at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty. Later generations took the name of her ancestors as her surname, so she was called Heather.

Second, starting from Ji's surname, taking Zuzi as the surname.

According to the genealogy of ancient and modern books integration and Zheng Qiao Tongzhi, the word is the surname. The surname of Ji's son is Ji's son, and that of Nan's son is Ji's surname. "In the Spring and Autumn Period, Ying, the son of Wei, was named Nan, and Sun Yizu was named Nan.

Third, in the Spring and Autumn Period, after the hermit in the State of Jin, he took the place name as his surname.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, a Jin lived in Nanxiang (now Shaanxi), and his descendants took this place as their surname.

Fourth, from the surname, I came from Yu Xia, took the country name as my surname, and was changed by the male surname.

According to Records of the Historian Xia Benji, "Tai Shi Gong said: Yu was the surname of Si, and later the country was the surname, so there was Hu Shi, ..." Suoyin said: "This is the name of the South", which is called it.

Fifth, from Zhang, avoid disasters and change the surname of Nan.

Ming Xiaozong is a clever woman. She once helped to reduce the river (Tianjin Niangniang River) and build Pangu Temple in Qingxian County, but his two brothers always bullied others with their relatives and ran roughshod over in the countryside. After the death of Queen Zhang, Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty ordered her to be beheaded. Around 1547, the descendants fled everywhere, and the four directions evolved into four surnames: East, South, West and North, from which the South surname came.

Six, by the minority surname, belonging to China surname.

The southern surname of Manchu originated from Nala nationality, and after the middle period of Qing Dynasty, the official Han surname was the southern surname. Today, Tibetan, Manchu, Hui, Mongolian, Korean, Yi and other ethnic groups have changed the Han surname to Nan.