The origin of the surname Yin
1. There are two sources.
1. Originated from the Yin Shang Dynasty and comes from the surname Zi.
Qi, the son of Emperor Ku, was granted the title of Shang because he assisted Dayu in flood control. His hometown was southwest of Shangqiu, Henan Province, and he was given the surname Zi. It was passed down to Chengtang in the 14th generation that the Xia Dynasty was destroyed and the Shang Dynasty was established. Around 1300 BC, in the middle of the Shang Dynasty, King Geng of the Shang Dynasty moved his capital to Yin, and the country's name was changed from Shang to Yin, and the history books also called it Yin Shang. After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he granted Weizi, the brother of King Zhou of Shang, to the Song Dynasty, which became the Song Kingdom. All other members of the Shang Dynasty royal family in the capital who did not receive titles had the surname Yin. After that, the Yin people dispersed. The oldest Yin people living in the Yin River in the Shangshui area of ??Henan also had the surname Yin. The Yin family has a history of at least 3,000 years.
Some people who immigrated to Shandong had the surname Yin and later changed their surname to Yi due to the influence of dialect. Yin and Yi originally had the same origin. By the Song Dynasty, some people with Yin surnames changed their surname to Tang due to taboo.
2. Influx of foreign genes
The Yin surname has always been a single ethnic group, and there is rarely an inflow of other genes. Until the early Qing Dynasty, the Yinjia clan of the Eight Banners of Manchuria all changed their surnames to Han and Yin, and mixed and assimilated with the local Han people, becoming the Han people in the Northeast region. Therefore, some of the Yin surnames in the Northeast come from the Manchu people.
2. Migration distribution and gathering places
In the pre-Qin period, people with the Yin surname had relatively extensive activities, such as the Wei State in Henan during the Warring States Period, the Wei State in the Hebei-Shandong region, and Thailand in the Shaanxi-Sichuan area. There are traces of the Yin people, but Henan has always been the main activity area of ??the Yin surname. By the end of the Qin Dynasty, the main ethnic groups with the Yin surname gathered in Yewang, Hanoi, which is now Qinyang City in Henan. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, there was already a Yin surname in the Kuaiji area of ??Zhejiang Province. In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Yin surname moved south to the Runan and Xihua areas in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, forming the famous Yin family in Runan. During the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasties, the Yin surname moved from the Huaihe River area to the southeast, crossing the Yangtze River and fully entering the Jiangnan area. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Yin surname had formed a large family in Jiangsu. During the Ming Dynasty, the surname Yin had spread throughout the country.
During the Song Dynasty, the Yin surname was mainly concentrated in Jiangsu and Henan.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were approximately 120,000 people with the surname Yin, accounting for approximately 0.13% of the country's population, ranking 130th. Jiangsu is the largest province with Yin surnames, accounting for about 36% of the total population with Yin surnames. The country is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Shandong, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang. These four provinces account for approximately 69% of the total population with the Yin surname. During the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, over 600 years ago, the Yin surname population mainly migrated to the southeast, and the Yin surname gathering center with Jiangsu as the center has been formed.
3. County Wangtang No.
County names with the Yin surname include Chenjun, Runan, Henan, etc.
The surname Yin takes Bai Yan as its hall name.
The name Baiyantang is named after Yin Liang, the filial son of the Tang Dynasty. Legend has it that Yin Liang's father died for three days, but his heart was still hot and his eyes could not close. Yin Liang guessed that his father missed his old grandmother, so he cut off his fingers and hair and placed them in his father's coffin. He swore that he would serve his grandmother just like his father was alive and asked his father to close his eyes. After swearing, his father did indeed close his eyes. Yin Liang served his grandmother for several years without taking off his clothes, and attracted a pair of white swallows to build a nest on the crossbar of the door frame of their home. Yin Liang studied diligently, and later became the governor of Hangzhou.
4. Blood type of people with the surname Yin:
The overall blood type distribution of people with the surname Yin is: type O accounts for 33.6%, type A accounts for 29.2%, type B accounts for 28.3%, and type AB Accounted for 8.9%.
5. Distribution of the contemporary Yin surname
The contemporary population of the Yin surname is nearly 1.7 million, making it the 111th most common surname in the country, accounting for approximately 0.14% of the national population. . The population growth rate of Yin has been on the rise in the 1,000 years since the Song Dynasty. At present, the Yin surname is mainly distributed in Yunnan and Jiangsu, which account for about 44% of the country's Yin population, followed by Anhui, Shandong, Hubei, and Hebei, and these four provinces account for another 20%.
The largest province with the Yin surname is Yunnan, accounting for approximately 31% of the population with the Yin surname in the country. The country has formed a cluster of Yin surnames centered on Yunnan in the southwest and Jiangsu and Anhui in the east.
The Yin surname is widely distributed, but unevenly. In most of Yunnan, southern Sichuan and Guizhou, western Guangxi, the intersection area of ??Shaanxi, Hubei and Chongqing, most of Jiangsu and Anhui, Shanghai, the intersection area of ??Hubei, Anhui and Jiangxi, most of Ganxia, ??western Gansu, northeast Qinghai, northwest Xinjiang, and the intersection area of ??Hebei, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia , in the eastern part of Heiji, the distribution frequency of Yin among the population is about 0.12%, and it can reach more than 1.6% in the central area. The area covered by the above areas accounts for about 21.8% of the total area of ??the country. This area is home to about 48% of the people with the Yin surname. . In most of Shandong, northern Jiangsu and Anhui, central Hubei, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, northern Hunan and Guizhou, southeastern Henan, southern Chongqing, central Guangxi, most of Sichuan and Gansu, southeastern Qinghai, southern Shaanxi and Ningxia, most of Liaoning and Jilin, and central Heilongjiang, the surname Yin is in the population The medium distribution frequency is approximately between 0.14% and 0.21%. The area covered by the above areas accounts for approximately 25.6% of the total area of ??the country. This area is home to approximately 31% of the people with the Yin surname.