内容摘要： 文章认为元昊袭封后改姓嵬名氏而非元氏，“嵬名”和“元”不能勘同。改姓嵬名的不光是元昊的近族，还包括整个拓跋氏。元昊废弃宋赐姓赵后，并没有恢复旧姓拓跋，而是改姓嵬名，此举有两个目的：一是对外摆脱北宋的控制而独立建国；一是对内突出业已发展为皇族的拓跋氏在整个党项羌中的地位。《西夏书事》关于元昊改姓“疏族不与焉”的记载，当为吴广成对史料的随意发挥．系出自对匈奴赫连勃勃改姓的比附。西夏国姓“嵬名”或许来源于开国皇帝元昊的小名“嵬埋”。

Abstract: The paper thinks that the family name changed by Yuanhao was not Yuan （元） but Weiming（ 嵬名 ）. It was not his own consanguineous but the whole tribe of Tuoba（拓跋） who changed the family name into Weiming （ 嵬名 ）. This has two purposes： one is to get rid of the control of the Northern Song Dynasty, the other is to highlight the status of the royal family of Tuoba（拓跋） in the whole Dangxiang nationality. The Xixia royal family name Weiming（嵬名） is perhaps from the childhood name Weimai（嵬埋） of Yuanhao which was the first emperor of the Xixia Dynasty.

关键词：党项;拓拔;嵬埋;嵬名;元昊;

作者：彭向前(著)(宁夏大学)

来源： 《青海民族大学学报》 2013年 第2期

中图分类号：K820.9