Xuchang, Henan
The Zhong surname accounts for about 0.39% of the Han population and is the 56th most common surname today.
"Zhong" comes from
1 comes from the surname Zi. He is a descendant of Shang Tang and takes Yi as his surname. According to "Manuscripts of the Words and Deeds of Mingxian Clan" and "Genesis Table of Prime Ministers in the New Book of Tang Dynasty", it is said that one of the concubines of the ancient emperor named Jian Di picked up a swallow egg, and Jian Di gave birth to a baby after eating it. Got the contract. Later, Qi assisted Dayu in flood control and was granted the title of Shang. When it was passed down to King Zhou of Shang Dynasty, there was a concubine named Qi who was granted the title of Wei. Seeing that the management of the Shang Dynasty was not good, he wrote to the King of Shang, but the King of Shang did not listen, so he ran away. After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, Wei Zi defected to King Wu of Zhou and was later granted the title of Song Dynasty. Weizi is the ancestor of the surname Zhong. However, after later generations' research, it was finally concluded that the ancestor of Zi's surname Zhong should be Wei Zi's younger brother, Wei Zhongyan. 2 Comes from the surname Ying. Changed to Zhongli's family name. The descendants of Boyi in the Zhou Dynasty were granted the title of Zhongli State. In the Spring and Autumn Period, they were annexed by the State of Chu, and the people in the country called them the Zhongli clan. It is the Zhong family of Anhui. 3. Take the official as the surname. According to the regulations of Zhou rites, there is a subordinate officer under Chunguan Da Zongbo who is responsible for percussion instruments such as bells and lu, called Zhongshi. Among the musical instruments, "Zhong" is the first of the twelve rhythms. The ancestor of Yun Gong Zhongyi took his surname as Zhong by profession. The more famous descendants of them are Chu doctors Zhong Jian and Zhong Ziqi. Zhong Ziqi is famous for his story in "Jingshi Tongyan" about "knowing the sound of high mountains and flowing water".
Distribution of the surname Zhong
The contemporary population with the surname Zhong is more than 4.4 million, ranking 54th in the country. Accounting for about 0.35 of the country's population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population surnamed Zhong has surged from 370,000 to more than 4.4 million, an increase of 12 times. The growth rate of the population surnamed Zhong is slightly lower than the growth rate of the national population. The growth rate of the population surnamed Zhong in the 1,000 years since the Song Dynasty The rate is on the rise. The distribution across the country is currently mainly concentrated in the four provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Guangxi, accounting for approximately 65% ??of the total population surnamed Zhong. Next, in Hunan, Fujian, Chongqing, and Zhejiang, the number of people with the surname Zhong in these four provinces and cities accounted for 19. Guangdong is home to 26% of the total population with the surname Zhong, making it the largest province with the surname Zhong. The country has formed three central areas with Zhong surnames: Guangdong and Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and Sichuan and Chongqing. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of population flow with the surname Zhong were very different from those during the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. Migration from the east to South China and Sichuan became the mainstream. The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of the surname Zhong among the population shows that in the areas bordering Guangdong, Guizhou, Gansu and Fujian, southern Zhejiang, most of Hunan, southeastern Guizhou, southeastern Hubei, southeastern Sichuan, Heilongjiang and northern Inner Mongolia, the surname Zhong generally accounts for the most of the local population. The rhyme ratio is above 0.6, of which the central area can reach above 2.5. The area covered by the above areas accounts for about 13% of the total land area, and is home to about 64% of people with the surname Zhong. In eastern Yunnan, most of Sichuan and Guizhou, Chongqing, northern Hunan, and central Hubei; in southern Mihui, most of Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Taiwan, the distribution ratio of the Zhong surname among the local people is between 0.3 and 0.6. Its coverage area accounts for about 13.2% of the total land area, and it is home to about 22% of people with the surname Zhong.
Zhong Lie: The son of King Kang of Song, the undying monarch of the Song Dynasty, and the twenty-seventh generation grandson of Zhongyan, Weizhongyan of Song Dynasty. He was born in Dinghai (Dinghai) in the 35th year of King Zhou Xian (Ji Bian) of the Warring States Period. 334 BC). In 318 BC, King Kang of the Song Dynasty established himself as a queen and granted Lie Gong the title of "Doctor of Zhongyi" (Zhongyi was the city of Cao State in 487 BC, when King Jinggong of the Song Dynasty destroyed it). In 286 BC, the Song Dynasty fell, and the Song King Yan fled and later died in Wenyi (now Wenxian County, Henan Province) of the Wei Kingdom; Lie Gong went to Zhongli Mountain in Yuzhou and settled in Dianqianli, Anyi Township, Zongchang County, Xuzhou, Henan Province. He was granted the title of "Dofu" of Zhongyi, so he took the title of "Zhongyi" as his surname and became the ancestor of the Zhong family to receive the surname.
Zhong Yao: (151-230), courtesy name Yuanchang, was a minister of the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms and a great calligrapher. A native of Yingchuan Changshe (belonging to Changge, Henan Province today). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he promoted Xiaolian and moved to Wei Zheng and Huangmen Shilang. Cao Cao was in power and served as Shizhong and Sili Xiaowei. Cao Pi succeeded the Han Dynasty, served as Tingwei, and was granted the title of Gao Xianghou.
Emperor Ming ascended the throne and moved to Taifu, known as "Taifu Zhong".