In ancient times, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to send envoys to the interest countries, China and the interest countries began to have contacts. When the king of Xi 'an was transferred to Prince Anqing, he didn't want to be king, but wanted to become a monk, so he became a monk.
An Qing returned to Luoyang, Henan Province to promote Buddhism in the second year of Jian 'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 148), and then settled down, and the surname An was passed down from generation to generation.
The second origin: from the change of surnames, it belongs to the emperor who gave surnames to surnames.
In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xianbei Anchi was changed to Anchi by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and its descendants were handed down from generation to generation.
In the Ming Dynasty, Yuan people Meng Ge and Da S were given an's by Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and passed down from generation to generation.
During the reign of Kangxi and Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army defeated the Russian invaders and the prisoners were escorted to Beijing. The Qing emperor gave them an surname and lived in China, and their descendants passed it down from generation to generation.
The third origin: it originated from foreign countries, and it is the descendant of Sulu (now the Philippines) king since ancient times, and it belongs to the sinicization and surname change.
Now my home is mainly in Dezhou, Shandong Province. Information needs to be supplemented.
The fourth origin: it originated in foreign countries and belongs to the homonym of Chinese names.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was one of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, taking the initials of its original "Anguo" country name as the surname.
The fifth origin: from foreign countries, from Russian prisoners of war, belonging to the emperor's surname.
During the Sino-Russian border war during the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Russian prisoners were detained in China, and their descendants were given surnames by Emperor Kangxi. Information needs to be supplemented.
The sixth origin: from all ethnic groups to change their surnames, it belongs to the sinicization to change their surnames. In the Tang Dynasty, An Lushan was originally named Kang, and later his stepfather's surname was An, which was passed down from generation to generation. In the Tang Dynasty, there were Uighurs and Uighurs, and many other ethnic minorities, such as, Cunmi, Jiba, Anjia, Aldan, Deligen, etc., all changed their surnames to An. Manchu Zhongyuan surname was changed to An.