How to pronounce a surname Zhong Zhan?

Zhan is one of Chinese surnames. It is not among the hundred surnames, but there are about 980,000 people in China, ranking 272nd among all surnames, accounting for 0.08% of the national population. As a surname, read zhān in Mandarin with a sound; The tidal sound ziam 1 is sharp. From: 1. Gui surname, with ancestral name as surname. 2. Divination belongs to surnames. 3. Zhan is a homonym. There were not many people with surnames in ancient times, so there were very few people with surnames in ancient times. However, when a considerable number of Zhan surnames were changed to Zhan surnames in modern times, Zhan surnames changed from rare surnames to small surnames and even more common surnames.

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1. From Gui. During the Spring and Autumn Period (reigned from 744 to 707), there was a son named Gui, who was called a book by the son. He was a scholar with a strong personality, and his son took Zhan as his surname. Therefore, Zhan's surname is a descendant of the Spring and Autumn Period and belongs to the ancestral surname.

2. from the profession. From the ancient fortune teller, it belongs to the occupation as the surname. In ancient times, there were wizards who specialized in divination, and their descendants took Zhan as their surname.

3. From Jane. Homophonic conversion of dominant sounds. In modern times, because the pronunciation of "Zhan" and "Zhan" is the same (Mandarin, Chaoshan dialect and Hakka dialect are the same), some people think that the latter is a simplified word of the former, so they use it as the surname of Zhan.