According to the introduction of yuan yida , the family name research is a science 据袁义达介绍,对姓氏的研究是一门科学。
According to the related information and data , yuan yida started the statistical research on family names 袁义达根据相关的资料数据,开始对我国的姓氏做统计研究。
" this is why in the map of china ; there is so many village of zhangs and villages of lis , yuan yida said “这就是在中国的地图上,为什么会有那么多的张家庄李家庄的原因。 ”
On may 2 , 1987 , yuan yida published the top 100 names in this statistics , which to be known as " new 100 chinese family names . 1987年5月2日,袁义达将此次姓氏统计中排名前一百位的姓氏公之于众,被称为“新百家姓” 。