Mei's ancestor is Mei Bo. At the end of Shang Dynasty, Zhou Wang was an official in Shang Dynasty. He is honest and frank. See Zhou Wang dissolute excesses, several times to remonstrate, was rejected by Zhou Wang. Sometimes, I advise him to give advice at the most unpleasant time to avoid being killed. However, Mei Bo made a generous statement: "If everyone dares not speak out, what does the court need us ministers for?" He is still the same. Whenever Zhou Wang had no choice, he pointed out in court that Zhou Wang couldn't stand it, so he killed Mei Bo and cruelly chopped her body into a paste. Mabel died for speaking out, faithful and unyielding. After the King of Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the descendants of Mei Bo were made loyal in Huangmei, and their descendants named Mei after the feudal city of their ancestors. They respect Mabel as their ancestor. Mei's county magistrate is like Runan County, and the world is called Runan Shidi. Runan county was established during the reign of Emperor Gaozu, and its land is equivalent to the area south of central Henan and north of Huaihe River in Anhui. Mei people live all over the country.
The origin of Mei surname
Mei has two sources:
1, judging from his son's surname, is a descendant of Tang Wang. According to "A Brief History of Genealogy" and "The Prime Minister's Genealogy Table of Tang Dynasty", King Taiding of Shang Dynasty named his brother Yumei (now southeast of Bozhou, Anhui Province) as an earl, who was called Meibo. In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Meidi Meibo was taken by Zhou Wang, and later generations took feudal cities as their surnames.
2. It was changed by others. According to Shu Wei, Na Man in Han Dynasty had a surname of May. According to the Old Tang Book, the northern leader's surname is Mei; Manchu surname in Qing dynasty, living in Shenyang; In addition, the Manchu Eight Banners in Qing Dynasty changed their surname to Jame; In the Qing Dynasty, Guizhou Guiyang Prefecture Kaizhou Tusi, surnamed Mei; Today, Manchu, Tujia, Yi, Mongolian, Li, Dongxiang, Xibo and other ethnic groups all have this surname.
Migration and distribution of Mei surname
Mei originated in today's Huangmei, Hubei Province, and later moved to Runan, Henan Province in large numbers for unknown reasons. According to the records in the textual research of surnames, the main activities of Mei's family in the early days were in the present runan county area. After the pre-Qin period, people named Mei were scattered in history books. There was a beautiful aunt in Danyang (now Xuancheng, Anhui) in the Qin Dynasty, a beautiful aunt in Yiyang (now Hunan) in the early Han Dynasty, a beautiful crown in Nanyang (now Henan) in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, and a beautiful wife in Shouchun, Jiujiang, Xin Mang (now Shouxian, Anhui). These historical facts show that during the Qin and Han dynasties, most Mei surnames moved to the relatively rich Central Plains, while other Mei surnames spread radially around with Huangmei as the center. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Mei was particularly prosperous in runan county, becoming the most important county in the history of Mei-runan county. At this time, Mei, who is famous in history, is still few. In addition to the above Mei's father and son from runan county, there is also Mei Chonger from (present-day Zhejiang). It can be seen that before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Mei's family had been distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang and other vast areas in the south of the Yangtze River. At the end of Sui Dynasty, peasant rebels rose everywhere, Yang Guang's militarism made the Central Plains empty, so it was imperative for Mei's born to die in Runan to move to the south, and one of them moved to Sichuan. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the Anshi Rebellion increased the political power in the vassal areas and castrated the officials. The reinforcements requested by the Tang Dynasty burned, killed and plundered the Uighurs. Uprising in Huang Chao followed, and social drama was in turmoil. Mei surname is more widely distributed in the south, and now there are Mei surnames living in Guangdong. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Mei's surname prevailed in various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Xuancheng, Anhui. It can be said that the population is prosperous and celebrities come forth in large numbers, while Mei has settled in Gansu. In the early Ming Dynasty, Mei, as one of the surnames of people who moved to Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi Province in the Ming Dynasty, moved to Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu and other places. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a large number of members of the Mei family in Sichuan took refuge in Tuchuan and Zhangzhang. After the Qing Dynasty, Mei's family was more widely distributed all over the country, and some people crossed the sea to Taiwan Province and lived overseas. Today, Mei's surname is widely distributed in China, especially in Yunnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Henan. The Mei surname in these six provinces accounts for about 74% of the Han population in China. Mei is the136th surname in China, with a large population, accounting for about 0. 1% of the Han population in China.