The important figures of Ai surname in history are: Ai Hou in Shang Dynasty; In the Tang Dynasty, Zhen Jun assisted Ai Chao, a national general, and Ai Juhui, a calligrapher. Ai Xuan, a painter in Song Dynasty, a poet and a famous doctor in Yuan Dynasty; Ai Wannian, former general of Ming Dynasty, and Ai Changfu, assistant minister of rites; Ai Shang, the minister of punishments in Qing Dynasty, and Ai, the general of Wuxian County; Ai Xing, academician of Modern Academy of Engineering, and Ai Chunrong, economist.
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The history of Ai surname can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, and the people were originally distributed in the southeast of Tai 'an, Shandong Province and Xiushui, Jiangxi Province. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Ai clan migrated to Lintao, Tianshui, Gansu, Pingyu, Luoyang and other places in Henan, and gradually became local aristocrats.
In the Northern Wei Dynasty, under the impetus of the sinicization reform, the Ai family, whose surname was changed from Jin, moved to Luoyang (now Henan), the new capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and merged with the local Ai family, making the Ai family in Henan County more prosperous.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Ai family had spread to northern provinces.
During the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, people named Ai moved south to escape the war, settled in southern provinces such as Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei and Hunan, and some of them moved to Fujian.