Jingzhao County: the direct jurisdiction of the capital Chang'an, equivalent to the area from Xi'an to Huaxian in Shaanxi today. Nan'an County: In the fifth year of Zhongping (188) of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was divided into Hanyang County and governed Didao (now the east bank of the Weishui River in Longxi, Gansu). It is comparable to the eastern part of Longxi, Gansu, Dingxi, Wushan and other places.
The origin of "Jia"
There are three origins of the family surname: ①. It comes from the surname Ji, taking the surname of ancestor as the surname. According to "Singing Garden" and "Manuscripts of the Words and Deeds of Mingxian Clan", the father of King Zhou Xiao's son was an official in the court during the reign of King Zhou You, and was called Doctor Zhou. He saw that King You loved drinking, indulged in women, and was cruel and immoral. He was very dissatisfied with his day-long leisurely pleasures and neglecting national affairs, so he wrote a poem "Jie Nanshan" (see "The Book of Songs? Xiaoya") to satirize him. My father was loyal and upright, and his descendants were proud of him, so they took the family name as their surname and passed it down from generation to generation. ②. Derived from taking the ancestral character as the surname. According to "Surname Garden" and "Surname Research", in the Spring and Autumn Period, the grandson of Duke Zhuang of Lu was named Ju, with the courtesy name Zijia. ③. Comes from the family servant with the compound surname. According to the "Encyclopedia of Chinese Surnames", there were servants of officials in the Jin Dynasty during the Zhou Dynasty, which was the beginning of the surnames of servants. Later it was changed to a single surname, called Jia's family name.
Hall number
Jingzhao Hall, Nan'an Hall.
Migration distribution
People with family surnames mainly lived in the Central Plains area in the early days, and then gradually migrated to surrounding areas. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, Famous families with county surnames formed in Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, with Jingzhao County and Nan'an County as the county leaders. After the Song Dynasty, major settlements were formed in Meishan and other places in Sichuan. Nowadays, there are a small amount of them distributed in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Shanxi and other places. Currently, the population with this surname does not rank among the top 300 in the country.