The Zhou surname has different regions and branches, and the generation ranking of the family trees is different. For example, Zhouzhuang, Niu Sanmen Village, Zhangdian Town, Tanghe County, Nanyang City, Henan Province, the character ranking is Ji, Kui, Lian, Shu, Bing, Cheng, Xi, Yong, Song, Huan, Pei, Ming, Yuan, Ben, Xi, Tao, Zhao, Huai, Qiao, Zhao.
For example, the genealogy sequence of the Shandong Zhou family (Jiyang County, Jinan City) is: division, construction, biography, auspiciousness, chang, pei, cheng, auspiciousness, auspiciousness, auspiciousness, behavior, family, respect, filial piety, Friends, jade, country, security, people, good. Generations of the Zhou family in Daquan, Yiyang, Hunan: Gui, Wen, Zu, Zhi, Yi; Yong, Xing, Wan, Dai, Tian; Ren, Xue, Hong, Zong, Yi; Shi, Shou, Shao, Qian, Xian; Successor, Description, sound, name, appearance, etc.
Another example is the Zhou family (descendants of Shangshu Gong) in Dengjiaao, Yongchuan District, Chongqing City: Shang, Meng, Ying, Kang, Shi; Sun, Zong, Dao, Shi, You; Zi, Jun, Zhong, Zhong, Wan; Yi, Zi, Shi, Da, Zhang; Hua, Xian, Wei, Ji, Shu; Yu, Hou, Le, Ying, Xian.
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Origin of the surname Zhou:
1. Coming from Zhou Chang and Zhou Ren. "He Tu Yun Lu Fa" records that in ancient times the Xuanyuan clan of the Yellow Emperor had a general named Zhou Chang, and in the Shang Dynasty there was a Taishi Zhou Ren. Their descendants all had the surname Zhou.
2. Comes from the surname Ji, the ancestor Houji. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, people regarded Hou Ji as the ancestor of the Zhou clan. Hou Ji's descendant, Gugong Danfu, led his people to migrate from Tai to Zhouyuan, Qishan, Shaanxi, and they were called Zhou clan from then on. The main origin of the Zhou surname is also said to be Black Shoulder, Duke of Zhou during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. He once led an army to assist King Huan of Zhou in his crusade against Zheng. Civil strife broke out in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and Duke Zhou Heijian was involved in it and was killed. His descendants changed their surnames to Zhou.
3. Ethnic minorities changed their surname to Zhou. During the Yuan Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, the three-character surname "Ji Zuoshi" (transliteration) of the ethnic minorities was changed to the Zhou family. The surname "He Lu" in Daibei (today's northeastern Shanxi Province) was changed to the Zhou surname. The He Lu surname was changed from "Yi" (minority) to the Zhou surname.
4. His surname was changed to Zhou. During the Xiantian and Kaiyuan years of the Tang Dynasty, the surname Ji was changed to the surname Zhou to avoid the name taboo of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. After the Five Dynasties, Liang Chengyou was given the surname Zhou by Liang Taizu Zhu Wen after his death. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the surname Su in Quanzhou, Fujian Province was changed to Zhou and moved to Hsinchu, Taiwan. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Ji, Prince Sun of the Changsha vassal of the Ming Dynasty, fled to the Zhou family in Ningxiang after the death of the Ming Dynasty. He changed his surname to Zhou to avoid disaster.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Genealogy of the surname Zhou