Hundred Family Surnames (Bai Jia Xing) - 百家姓

The "Hundred Family Surnames" (Bai Jia Xing) is one of the three classic Chinese primers, along with the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic". It was compiled in the early Northern Song Dynasty, originally containing 411 Chinese surnames, later expanded to 504 surnames, including 444 single-character surnames and 60 compound surnames. The "Hundred Family Surnames" is easy to read and memorize. The order of surnames in the "Hundred Family Surnames" is not based on population size.