Tianshui County, Gansu Province, Taiyuan County, Shanxi Province.
The origin of "Di"
1. Originated from the You'u family, from Qi (Uncle), the ancestor of the Shang Dynasty His mother, Di, is named after his grandmother. 2. Originated from the surname Heng, which comes from the Di tribe of the northern ethnic group in the late Shang Dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty. It is a surname based on the name of the tribe. 3. Derived from the surname Jiang, it comes from the Shenlu family, a descendant of Emperor Fengyan of the Western Zhou Dynasty, who was named after the country in Dicheng. 4. Those who originated from official positions and came from Di, an official in the two-week period, are those whose surnames are based on official titles. 5. Originated from the surname Ji, which came from Di Mi, a craftsman of the Lu State during the Spring and Autumn Period. It is a surname based on the name of an ancestor. 6. Originated from the Xiongnu tribe, from the northwest Uighur tribe during the Tang Dynasty, and belonged to the surname given by the emperor. 7. Originated from the Khitan tribe, from Yelu Hemiao, a general of the Liao Kingdom during the Five Dynasties period. It is a surname given by the emperor. 8. Derived from other ethnic minorities, the surname is changed to a surname in Han Chinese style.
Migration distribution
Di’s is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-origin surname. It is found in both mainland China and Taiwan Province. Not among the top 300 surnames. Di's disease originated in northern China and is mainly distributed in Liyang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces. Since Di is a relatively rare surname among Chinese surnames, relevant historical records are rare and the opinions are not uniform.
Di, in ancient times, was the general name for the ethnic minorities in the north. During the Shang Dynasty, the Di people were active in present-day Gansu, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. The ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty developed farming in Bindi, Shaanxi (Xunyi, Shaanxi, China) when Gu Gongtan father was the leader. They were often harassed by the surrounding Xu and Di tribes, so they moved down the Weishui River and settled in Zhouyuan (Qishan, Shaanxi, China). , later developed into the Zhou Kingdom. After his son Ji Li came to the throne, he defeated the intrusions of the Xu and Di tribes, and the Zhou Kingdom gradually became stronger. At that time, there were many Di tribes, among which Red Di, Bai Di and Chang Di were the most prominent. Chi Di, whose surname was Wei, was in the northwest of Yin and Western Zhou Dynasties. At that time, it was also called Guifang (Guifang was the name of the Yin and Zhou tribe). Various historical books have records of Yin and Zhou's attacks on Guifang. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, Chi Di left the land of Qin and Jin in the east and entered the Jin Dynasty. He established the "Qun Kingdom" based on Taihang. His power became very powerful. Later, he went eastward and destroyed the Xingguo (Xingtai, Hebei, China) and Weiguo (China). Qi County, Henan). Later, the Di people harassed Zhou and Jin in the west, colluded with Zhou princes, and expelled King Zhou Xiang from the royal capital. Duke Wen of Jin sent troops to help the king, defeated Di Shi, and killed his uncle. Dinai crossed the Yellow River eastward, entered Henan and Shandong, and invaded Song, Wei, Qi, and Lu. Later Chidi was divided and declined internally, and was invaded and expelled by neighboring countries. Bai Di originally lived with Qin in the Yongzhou area, in the west of Jin, and later gradually moved to eastern Shanxi and western Lu, establishing several small kingdoms, among which the three kingdoms of Fei, Gu, and Xianyu in central Hebei were the largest. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Xianyu was renamed Zhongshan, and during the Warring States Period, it became the Kingdom of Thousand Chengs that became king at the same time as Yan, Zhao, and Han. In the 1970s, cultural relics from the tomb of King Zhongshan and the ruins of the capital of Zhongshan were unearthed in Pingshan County, Hebei Province, indicating that the Di people were integrated into Chinese culture at that time. In the Han Dynasty, Didao (a road that is a county, a place where ethnic minorities live) was placed in Longxi County. It is named after the Di people who live there. In the Jin Dynasty, it was changed to Wushi County. In the Sui Dynasty, it was renamed Didao and belonged to Lanzhou. In the third year of Tang Tianbao's reign, Didao County was established. The old city is in present-day Lintao County, Gansu Province. In the first millennium BC, the Di people have been active in present-day Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Ordos in Inner Mongolia, as well as Henan, Hebei, Shanxi and eastern Shandong. It disappeared after AD. Although there is no direct relationship between the Di tribe and the Di family, King Zhou Cheng's granting the title of Dicheng must be related to the powerful Di tribe at that time. According to the Di family tree compiled in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty (AD 1534): Liang Gong (Di Renjie) came from Taiyuan, and Di from my county moved from Taiyuan to Fujian, and from Fujian to Tai. According to the "Genealogy of the Di Family in Liyang" (revised in 1925): Di Ying, whose courtesy name was Tianxiu, traveled south with Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty. He was a virtuous and upright person and served as the deputy envoy of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. He came from Lin'an and opened his residence in Liyang. After becoming an official, he lived in Xuzhuli, the ancestor of the Di family in present-day Liyang.