Ai Shi originated from Emperor Shao Kang of Xia Dynasty, who promoted minister Ru Ai, and later was Ai Shi. Your ancestral home is Tianshui, so Tianshui is the county where Ai's surname is carried forward. In 2007, Ai's surname ranked 334th among hundreds of surnames and 259th among the national surnames.
Important figures of Ai surname in history are: Ai Hou in Shang Dynasty; In the Tang Dynasty, Zhen Jun assisted Ai Chao, a national general, and Ai Juhui, a calligrapher. Ai Xuan, a painter in Song Dynasty, a poet and a famous doctor in Yuan Dynasty; Ai Wannian, former general of Ming Dynasty, and Ai Changfu, assistant minister of rites; Ai Shang, the minister of punishments in Qing Dynasty, and Ai, the general of Wuxian County; Ai Xing, academician of Modern Academy of Engineering, and Ai Chunrong, economist.
As of 2009, the population of Ai surname is about 690,000, ranking 184 in China. Yuan Yida, the author of "300 Surnames in China" and a researcher at the Institute of Genetic Development of China Academy of Sciences, learned from the Ministry of Public Security that in 2009, the registered population of Ai surname in China was 690,000, ranking first, second and third in Hubei, Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, with Hubei province accounting for 13. The population surnamed Ai accounts for 0.05 18% of the total population of China (654.38+33.2 million).
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The main source of AI surname:
1, the origin of the Han Ai surname. The clan that invented Aidao in ancient times took Ai as its surname; Assisting Emperor Shao Kang of Xia Dynasty to revive the minister Ruai of Xia Dynasty, because of his high work, Emperor Shao Kang gave him a mourning surname, and Ruai was the ancestor of the mourning surname recorded in writing; In Shang Dynasty, Xiushui (now xiushui county, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province) was an ancient Ai country, and its descendants thought it was the surname.
The descendants of the last Marquis of Tangyin took the old country name "Ai" as their surname; During the Spring and Autumn Period, the sixth grandson (uncle of Confucius), the father of Sima Jia of Song State, lived in Ailing of Qi State (now southeast of Taishan District, Tai 'an City, Shandong Province) and was renamed Aikong because of his seclusion. Later generations took Ai as their surname;
The son of the Spring and Autumn Period took refuge in Ai City in 5 15 BC (said to be Ai City of Wu State-now xiushui county, Jiangxi Province, also said to be Ai City of Weiguo, possibly tangyin county, Henan Province), and one of his descendants took the place name Ai as a refuge;
2. The origin of Ai surname of ethnic minorities. In 496 AD, the surname Qu Jin of the Northern Wei Xianbei nationality was changed to Ai; In the fourth year of Jiaxi in the Southern Song Dynasty (1240), Ailibadulu, a Uighur, led the troops to the Song Dynasty, changed his love surname to Ai surname and sealed Ai Xiaozhong. Hui Ai surname mainly comes from the initial consonants of Confucian classics (that is, Hui people's names). For example, Abu Bak, a Hui who joined the Qing Dynasty, took Ai as his surname. Manchu Aixinjue Roche, Xilin Gol's, Aiyi and Aihui have been renamed love;
Mongolian Ai surname comes from the first word of Mongolian "Ai Ri Yin Gu Te" surname. The surname of Yi people in Eryuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province was changed to Ai surname in the period of 1872- 1873, and was later interpreted as Ai surname. Ethnic minorities such as Kirgiz, Xibo, Bai, Yao, Tujia, Miao, Dong, Buyi, Gelao, Hani, Lahu, Wa, Dai, Bulang, Zhuang and Korean also take Ai as their surname.
3. The origin of foreign Ai surname. One of the Jews who stayed in China was named Ai. For example, among the Jews who came to China for business in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty (around 1050) and later settled in the capital city of Bianliang (now Kaifeng), there was Ai's surname. From the middle and late Yuan Dynasty to Shunnian, Amina, a Persian Muslim in the Middle East, took Ai as her surname in Huachi, Yuzhou Road (now Fangcheng County, Nanyang City, Henan Province).
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Ai surname