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 May 17 2009, 11:17 PM
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 kthxbai  Group: Official Designer Posts: 2,832 Joined: Feb 2008 Member No: 621,203  |
OMFG I've always wondered why so many asians have this last name.
QUOTE("smart ass wiki person") By some estimates, approximately 40 percent of Vietnamese people have this surname QUOTE("another smart ass wiki person") Origin and usage Although in more recent times, people with this surname are most often associated with Vietnam, it is of Chinese origin[citation needed], written in Chinese as 阮—pronounced Ruǎn (Ruan) in Standard Mandarin and Yuen5 in Cantonese (see Chinese surnames). Today, Ruan is an uncommon, though by no means rare, surname in China. Some Vietnamese with this surname claim to be descended from a man named Ruan Cho, a governor of Jiaozhi (交趾, the Sino-Vietnamese name for northern Vietnam at that time, Vietnamese: Giao Chỉ) during China's Chen Dynasty (557-589). Throughout Vietnamese history, many events contributed to the name's prominence. In 1232, after usurping the Lư Dynasty, Trần Thủ Độ forced the descendants of the Lư to change their surname to Nguyễn. When Hồ Quư Ly overturned the Trần Dynasty, he killed many of their descendants so when the Hồ Dynasty collapsed in 1407, many of his descendants changed their surname to Nguyễn in fear of retribution. In 1592, on the collapse of the Mạc Dynasty, their descendants changed their surname to Nguyễn and Lều. When the Nguyễn Dynasty (the descendants of the Nguyễn Lords) took power in 1802, some of the descendants of the Trịnh Lords fearing retribution changed their surname to Nguyễn, while others fled north into China. The Nguyễn Dynasty awarded many people the surname Nguyễn during their rule, and many criminals also changed their surname to Nguyễn to avoid prosecution. As with all other common surnames, most people having this surname are not necessarily related.[3] In Vietnamese custom as with other East Asian cultures, the surname precedes the given names. Like many surnames in Vietnam and other Chinese-influenced cultures (including Korea and Japan), the name Nguyễn is shared with those in Chinese culture with the same surname. The Chinese/Hán Tự character for Nguyễn is 阮, which refers to a moon-shaped lute instrument called ruan (Mandarin). yay wikipedia :D |
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May 17 2009, 11:40 PM
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 R U A Q T ? [; Group: Official Member Posts: 7,276 Joined: Jun 2006 Member No: 421,631 |
^Was that an insult to Tung?
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emberfly Nguyen May 17 2009, 11:17 PM
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i remember when i saw in a middle school ye... May 19 2009, 09:11 PM paozuu there's too many viets i know named ho, van, v... May 20 2009, 05:57 PM ArjunaCapulong can someone make a quick summary of that lol May 20 2009, 05:58 PM interpretation Nguyen is the only Vietnamese surname I know. Oh, ... May 20 2009, 06:45 PM moorepocket I know a familiy of vo May 20 2009, 08:27 PM |
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