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Qin (surname)

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Not to be confused with Tan / Qin (surname 覃).
Qín (秦はた)
Language(s)Chinese
Origin
Language(s)Old Chinese
Word/nameState of Qin
Other names
Derivative(s)Chin

Qín ([tɕʰǐn]) (秦はた) is a common Chinese surname. "Qin" is the hanyu pinyin romanization of the surname for Mandarin, the common dialect of China; other romanizations of the surname include Chin and Jin in Mandarin, Ceon and Cheun in Cantonese, and Tần (or Tan when commonly written without accent in ASCII) in Vietnamese. People with this surname are most commonly found in Henan, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Hubei and Hebei.[1] It is the 18th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.

Other surnames romanized as "Qin" include 欽/钦.

History

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According to the Shuowen Jiezi, the character for Qin is a compound ideogram which combined two characters: chong 舂うす "to pound", and he 禾 "grain".[2] The character originally refers to Qin Valley (秦はた谷たに) in Longxi near Tianshui, Gansu and became the name of that area. The area was granted to Feizi, a descendants of Gao Tao, by King Xiao of Zhou as a fief in the 9th century BC, which then grew into the state of Qin. In the 3rd century BC, the state of Qin unified China and became the first imperial dynasty under Qin Shi Huang. After the fall of the dynasty in 206 BC, the descendants of Qin royalty, whose ancestral name was Yíng (Chinese: 嬴), was said to have adopted the surname Qin.[1] Many people sought to identify themselves with the Qin long since the fall of the Qin dynasty; in Japan, the Hata clan of Japan claims descent from a branch of the Qin royal family, "Hata" being the native Japanese reading for the character "Qin".[3]

Another origin came from the Qin City (秦はた邑; present-day Fan County, Henan) in the state of Lu (鲁). During the early Zhou dynasty in the 10th century BC, Boqin the son of the Duke of Zhou, originally surnamed Ji (姬ひめ), was given the state of Lu, and his descendants who were assigned to the Qin estate adopted the name of their place of residence as their surname.[4]

After the opening of the Silk Road in the 2nd century BC, Daqin (大秦たいしん, Great Qin) was the name used by the Han Chinese for the Roman Empire. Some people to the west of China arriving via the Silk Road was therefore said to have adopted the surname Qin.[5] Various non-Han people of China also took "Qin" as their surname, such as the Mongols, the Daurs, the Manchus, and the Jurchen Moyan (抹捻 during the Jin dynasty and 穆きよし颜 during the Manchu period).[citation needed]

Ancient Chinese texts recorded that one of the friends of the legendary sage king Emperor Shun (23rd century BC) was named Qin Buxu (秦はた不ふ虛きょ). However, no record exists of the later lineages of this Qin Buxu.

Notable people with the surname

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Historical

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  • Qin Kai (秦はた開ひらく), general of the Yan state
  • Qin Wuyang (秦はた舞まい陽よう; died 227 BC), grandson of Qin Kai, accompanied Jing Ke to assassinate Qin Shi Huang Di in 227 BC
  • Qin Jia (秦はた嘉よしみ), Eastern Han dynasty poet
  • Qin Lang (秦はた朗あきら), Wei general of the Three Kingdoms period
  • Qin Qiong (秦はた瓊; died 638), Tang dynasty general
  • Qin Zongquan (秦はた宗はじめ權けん; died 889), Tang dynasty warlord
  • Qin Guan (秦しん觀かん; 1049 – c. 1100), Song dynasty writer and poet
  • Qin Hui (秦はた檜ひのき; 1090–1155), Southern Song dynasty politician
  • Qin Jiushao (秦はた九きゅう韶; 1202–1261), Southern Song dynasty mathematician
  • Qin Liangyu (秦はた良りょう玉だま; 1574–1648), Ming dynasty general
  • Qin Rigang (秦はた日にち綱つな; 1821–1856), Taiping Rebellion leader
  • Qin Jiwei (秦はた基はじめ伟; 1914–1997), general

Modern

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  • Qin Yi (秦はた怡; Qin Yi; 1922–2022), actress
  • Charlie Chin (秦はた祥さち林りん; Qin Xianglin; born 1948), actor
  • Qin Hui (秦はた晖; born 1953), historian
  • Qin Guangrong (秦はた光ひかり荣; born 1954), politician
  • Qin Yu (秦はた裕ひろし; born 1964), politician
  • Qin Gang (秦はた刚; born 1966), diplomat
  • Qin Yiyuan (秦はた艺源; born 1973), badminton player
  • Qin Dongya (秦はた东亚; born 1978), judoka
  • Qin Hao (秦はた昊ひろし; born 1979), actor
  • Qin Jinjing (born 1996), China-born Australian badminton player
  • Qin Lan (秦はた岚; born 1981), actress
  • Qin Shaobo (秦はた少しょう波なみ; born 1982), acrobat and actor
  • Qin Kai (秦はた凯; born 1986), diver
  • Qin Sheng (秦はた升ます; born 1986), football player
  • Ren-Chang Ching (1898–1986), botanist specialist of pteridophytes

References

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  1. ^ a b "Chinese surname history: Qin". People's Daily Online.
  2. ^ "秦はた, Qin". zdic.net.
  3. ^ Shinsen Shōjiroku "出自しゅつじ秦はた始皇帝しこうてい三世孫孝武王也"
  4. ^ Fu Chinjiang (2007). Origins of Chinese Names. Asiapac Books. ISBN 978-9812294623.
  5. ^ 华人文化ぶんか世界せかい. 天津てんしん海外かいがい联谊会かい. 1995. p. 92.
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