The area around Lankao County in Henan Province and Dingtao County in Shandong Province
The current population of people with the surname Ding has reached more than 4.7 million, making it the 48th largest country in the country. surname, accounting for approximately 0.38 of the country's population.
The origin of "Ding"
The surname Dīng has four origins: 1. It comes from the surname Jiang. According to "Yuanhe Surnames Compilation", "Wanxing Genealogy", "Tongzhi? Clan Brief" and other materials, Ji, the son of Jiang Taigong, was posthumously named Qi Dinggong, and his descendants took his posthumous name as their surname and called them Ding. surname. 2. Descendants of Dinghou. According to "A Study of Surnames", Dinghou was a prince of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. When King Wu of Zhou attacked Yin Zhou, Dinghou was destroyed by Zhou because of his failure. His ancestors and grandchildren were scattered all over the country, and the tribe still named Ding as its surname. 3. Comes from the surname Zi. The Zhou Dynasty enfeoffed the Shang Dynasty remnant Weizi in the Song Dynasty (now the eastern part of Henan Province and the provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui). The descendants of Ding Gong of the Song Dynasty took their surname "Ding Gong" as their surname and were called Ding. 4. It comes from the surname changed by other people or the surname changed or given by other ethnic minorities.
Distribution of the surname Ding
The contemporary population of the surname Ding has reached more than 4.7 million, making it the 48th surname in the country. , accounting for approximately 0.38 of the country's population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population surnamed Ding has increased from 400,000 to more than 4.7 million, an increase of nearly 12 times. The growth rate of the population surnamed Ding is lower than the growth rate of the national population. From the Song Dynasty to the present, the population with the surname Ding has grown in a ^-shaped manner in the past 1,000 years. The distribution in the country is currently mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Hubei, Anhui, and Henan. The population of Ding in these four provinces accounts for about 37% of the total population of Ding. Secondly, they are distributed in Guizhou, Liaoning, Hunan, Zhejiang, Shandong, and Jiangxi. There are another 30 people with the Ding surname in these six provinces. The population of Jiangsu Province with the Ding surname accounts for 13% of the total population with the Ding surname, making it the province with the largest population of Ding surnames today. The whole country has formed a gathering area with Ding surnames centered in Jiangsu and spreading to the surrounding areas. During the 600 years, the degree and direction of population flow with the Ding surname were very different from those during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. The migration back from the southeast to North and Central China was very strong, and was already greater than the migration from north to south. The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of the surname Ding among the population shows: in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, most of Anhui, eastern Shandong: northeastern Jiangxi, northwest Fujian, the eastern end and southwest of Hubei, northwest Hunan, most of Guizhou, eastern Yunnan, the western end of Guangxi, most of Gansu, In western Inner Mongolia, northern Xinjiang, most of Liaoning, and eastern Heilongjiang Province, the proportion of the local population with the Ding surname is generally more than 0.48, and it can reach more than 2.8 in the central area. The above-mentioned areas cover approximately 22.5% of the total land area, and there are about 49 people with the surname Ding. In most of Henan and Hubei, most of Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, eastern Guangdong, northwest Guangxi, central Yunnan, southeast and northern end of Guizhou, northern and eastern Sichuan, Shaanxi and Chongqing, southwestern Shanxi, eastern Qinghai, central Shandong, northeastern Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin, In eastern Inner Mongolia, western Liaoning, northern Jilin, and central Heilongjiang, the proportion of the local population with the Ding surname is generally between 0.32 and 0.48. Its coverage area accounts for 28% of the total land area, and about 37% of the people with the Ding surname live there.
Ding Wei: A native of Changzhou, Suzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty served as the official Youjianyi and the third envoy Quan. He was later promoted to prime minister and was named Duke of Jin. The story of his restoration of the capital is revered as a model for the application of operations research in ancient times.
Ding Dexing: (1327? 1366) was a native of Dingyuan (now part of Anhui) in the late Yuan Dynasty. It is said that his ancestors were envoys to China from Byzantium. At the beginning, he joined Zhu Yuanzhang's army in Haozhou (now Fengyang, Anhui Province) and was called "Heiding". At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, his name was: Ding Dexing, the soap-robed general, who was famous all over the world. Crossing the river, quarrying stones, capturing Taiping (now Dangtu, Anhui), dividing the troops into Lishui and Linyang, and capturing Chen Zhaoxian. He went to Jiqing (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) and Zhenjiang and became the general manager of the army. He defeated Jintan and Guangde and promoted the left wing to marshal. He also took the states in southern Huizhou, defeated Yixing, and awarded Fengxiang the commander of the guards based on his merits. In the 21st year of Zhengzheng (1361), he conquered Chen Youliang, far away from Poyang Lake, and briefly selected the counties in Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan). Later, he fought against Zhang Shicheng with Xu Da and died in the army.
Emperor Hongwu called him a "tiger general who is invincible in attack and invincible in battle".