One of the Chinese surnames, according to legend, originated from Yangguo (now Hongdong County, Shanxi Province) in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was the national surname of Sui Dynasty and Nanwu. It is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-source surname, which mainly comes from the surname Ji and the surname change of ethnic minorities. Yang ranked 16 among the top 100 surnames in Song Dynasty. By 2065438+February 2005, the total population of Yang was about 42.7 million, making it the sixth largest surname in China. Among them, Sichuan has a population of about 3.8 million, making it the largest province in Shenyang.
2. Liu surname
Surnames of many nationalities and origins. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Liu lived in Chu and Qin lived in Shanxi, and then gradually formed a noble family in Hedong (now east of the Yellow River in Shanxi); Before the Tang Dynasty, Liu had settled in Sichuan, Guangxi, Fujian and other places. After the Tang Dynasty, Liu was said to be very prosperous in the south. During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Liu's name was mostly in southern places such as Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Fujian, while Liu's name in the north was mostly silent. Now Liu is mostly in Shandong, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan and other provinces.
3. Tao surname
The Chinese surname comes from Zuo, a senior official of Yan State in the Spring and Autumn Period, and some of his descendants are called Tao.
4. May
It mainly comes from the changes of the surnames of sons, families and ethnic minorities. At the end of Shang Dynasty, Meibo was the ancestor of his family. Mei is one of the surnames in China, ranking 145 among the hundred surnames in Song Dynasty. In 20 10, Chinese mainland's surname ranked 136, and its population was about1050,000, mainly distributed in Anhui, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Henan and other places. The Mei surname in six provinces accounts for about 74% of the Han population in Chinese mainland.
5. Hangzhou surname
There are two origins: one is from the Yu family, a descendant of Dayu, and it is named after the country. According to legend, Yu Xia came to Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) to meet the governors of the world when he was in charge of water conservancy. After the flood control project was completed, many ships were left there. He put these ships under the management of one of his sons, sealed them in the land of Quanxing, and established Yuhang State (now Yuhang, Zhejiang). Later, when his descendants went to the ship to add firewood, they wrote "Hangzhou" and called themselves "Hangzhou", which was passed down from generation to generation and formed today's Hangzhou.
Second, from the surname of Kang, Kang and Hangzhou are homologous, and the surname of Hangzhou was changed. In the Han Dynasty, the surname of Dongxianghou and Changsha was Kang. Because the words "Hangzhou" and "Kang" have existed since ancient times, his son and grandson took Hangzhou as their surname and called it Hangzhou.