Zhou Haimei is the Manchu Guerjia clan, the largest surname of the Manchu people, and Aobai also comes from this surname

On December 11, 2023, the beautiful and kind-hearted sister Zhou Haimei died of illness at the age of 57. All walks of life have mourned and missed Zhou Haimei in various ways, Zhou Haimei has played many roles, the most well-known is Zhou Zhiruo, many media have mourned her with the title of "Goodbye, the most beautiful Zhou Zhiruo".

However, what many people don't know is that Zhou Zhiruo is actually a Manchu, with the surname Guarjia, one of the eight Manchu surnames. It is also the first clan of the Manchus. If according to the Xi of the Qing Dynasty, Zhou Haimei was also a proper nobleman.

The Guarjia clan is an ancient clan that dates back to the Jin Dynasty, a regime in the north during the Song Dynasty. At that time, it was not Manchu, but Jurchen. The Gualga clan is the name of a Jurchen clan tribe that calls itself by the name of the place.

He has lived in the Yaerhu region of Northeast China for generations. This place name may be unfamiliar to everyone, but many people must have heard of Salhu, which is now Fushun, Liaoning.

Guerjia is actually a transliteration, so in the Jin Dynasty, many historical books recorded it as the Jiagu clan and the Guli Jia clan, which continued until the Qing Dynasty, which can be described as profound. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Guerjia Gaha, the son of Guerjia Songali, the ancestor of the Yaerhu Jurchen tribe, was the chief of Sarhu City, and he made a decision, or a last resort, to submit to the Aixinjue Luo clan, that is, the tribe led by Nurhachi at that time, and married him, and finally helped Nurhachi win the victory in the Battle of Salhu.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, the Guerjia clan also entered the customs as a meritorious hero and lived in Shoubi Hutong in Beijing. Continuing the glory of the ancestors.

There were many celebrities in the Guerjia clan, and there was Jiagu Xie Nu during the Jin Dynasty, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Industry at that time, and was proficient in Jurchen and Khitan characters. In the Qing Dynasty, there were even more celebrities, such as Aobai, the first warrior of the Manchu Qing Dynasty who once threatened Kangxi, was also from the Guerjia clan.

From the present point of view, it feels that the three northeastern provinces all belonged to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in fact, the Manchus or Jurchens owned very little land, they were sparsely populated, and each tribe did not occupy much place. Guerjia is translated into Chinese as "the ditch around the vegetable garden", which shows that the place where Guerjia lives is not large, but after winning the world, it has slowly developed and expanded.

Guerjia did not like the translation of Chinese, so he deleted the relevant records in the later history books, the Manchus were still martial, and it is said that Nurhachi's strategies were learned by reading the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Xi. Guerjia is no exception, they worship Guan Yunchang very much, which happens to be similar to the pronunciation of "melon", so they often call themselves Guan on Han surnames.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the various tribes of the Manchu people have changed their surnames, and the Guerjia family has changed their surnames very much, in addition to the Guan family, there are Shi's, Bao's, Wang's, Li's, Gao's, Gu's, Bai's, Hu's, Guo's, Guo's, Su's, Ye's, Chang's, Xi's, Hou's, etc.

Zhou Haimei, as a descendant of the Guerjia clan, has a special surname Zhou, when Zhou Haimei's ancestors were officials in Guangzhou, because the people around him were surnamed Zhou, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, he changed his surname to Zhou like the people around him, and it has continued until now.