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Legend has it that it originated from the state of Xie, with the surname Ren. After the Yellow Emperor, it was named after the country. When the Zhou Dynasty fell, the land was granted to Shen Bo, and Shen Bo's descendants took the country's name as their surname. The Xie surname after the Yellow Emperor was almost wiped out during the three generations of "Xia, Shang and Zhou" (it disappeared during the third generation).
The surname Xie was first active in southern Henan. The Chu people destroyed Shen and moved the Xie tribe to the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. From then on, the Xie tribe began to move south. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Xie surnames had moved to Shandong, Hubei, Hunan and other places. During the Warring States Period, a group of people named Xie immigrated to Sichuan.
The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of the surname Xie among the population shows that in Guangdong, Qionggui, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Taiwan, most of Hubei, southern Zhejiang and Anhui, and eastern Sichuan and Chongqing, the proportion of the local population with the surname Xie is generally 0.9% Above, some reach more than 2.4%. The area covered by the above areas accounts for about 16% of the total land area, and about 60% of the people with the surname Xie live there.
In the connecting areas of most of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, southern Chongqing, southern Shaanxi, Gansu and Henan, northern Hubei, central Anhui, northern Zhejiang, Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, Heilongjiang and the northern end of Inner Mongolia, the surname Xie is the most popular among the local people. The proportion is generally 0.6%--0.9%. The area covered by the above areas accounts for about 15% of the total land area, and about 21% of the people surnamed Xie live there.
Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xie surname