Hubei Province is an important province in central China, before we knew the top ten surnames are: Li, Liu, Zhang, Chen, Yang, Hu, Huang, Wang, Xu, Zhou. Do you know the origin of these 10 surnames? Let's take a look:
1, Li surname: Li surname ranked first in Hubei, Luyi County, Henan Province is the hometown of Laozi, but also the birthplace of Li surname. By the end of the Warring States period, the area of activity of the Surname Li had expanded to Shanxi, Hebei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei and other places.
2, Liu surname: Liu Lei is the ancestor of the surname Liu, the Han Dynasty is the peak and development period of the Liu surname, Hubei Jingxiang region, Hunan Changsha area, Jiangxi Jiujiang area also has Liu surname Wang.
3, Zhang surname: Zhang Waving is the ancestor of zhang surname, to the Qin and Han and other historical stages, Zhang surname began to migrate to Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi and other places.
4. Chen surname: Chen Hugong is the ancestor of the Surname Chen, and in the pre-Qin period, the Chen surname was mainly active in Henan, Anhui and Hubei regions.
5. Yang surname: It is said that the earliest originated from the Yang Kingdom (present-day Hongdong County, Shanxi Province) in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Yang Boqiao was the ancestor of the surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, some Yang clan people moved into the Jianghan region (present-day Qianjiang, Hubei Province).
6. Hu surname: The Hu clan originated from the Zhou Dynasty princely state of Hu. In the pre-Qin period, the main area of activity of the Hu surname was south of the Yellow River, the Huai River and the Han River Basin.
7. Huang surname: The ancient Huang Kingdom was established in the Xia Dynasty, and the Shang Dynasty took the state as its clan. In 648 BC, after the Huangchuan Huangguo was destroyed by the Chu state, a small number of The Huang people fled to central Henan, and a large number of them moved inland to the hinterland of the Chu state and settled in Hubei and other places.
8. Wang surname: Ji Jin in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was the ancestor of the Wang surname. During the Sui Dynasty, the various branches of the Wang surname were spread to various places.
9. Xu surname: In ancient times, Xu Ruomu was enfeoffed with the state of Xu (present-day northern Anhui), and the state of Xu became the earliest birthplace of the Xu surname. Roughly through the two Han Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the surname Xu became a surname with a large population in Hubei and other places.
10. Zhou surname: The Surname Zhou belongs to the clan and the name of the country. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, due to the long years of war and chaos in the north, there was the first great migration of ethnic groups, and the People of the Zhou clan also followed the Shi clan of the Central Plains to move south.
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