The Jin surname is the sixty-ninth surname with the most Chinese mouths, and has a certain influence in the Central Plains and anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. Today, the Jin population accounts for about 0.3% of the country's population, and the total population is about 3.8 million.
Among today's Chinese surnames in order of population, the Jin surname is the 60th largest surname in China today, with a relatively large population, accounting for about 0.31% of the han population in the country.
<h1>Surname origin</h1>
Origin 1, from the Shaohao Jin Tianshi. According to legend, Shao Hao was one of the Five Emperors of the Ancients, and after Shao Hao's death, he was revered as the Emperor of the West; that is, the Eastern Han Dynasty Ying Shao's "Customs and Customs": the Jin surname is "Shao Hao after jin tianshi". Shaohao is the ancient Dongyi department
The leader of the Jin surname Luo, the Dongyi tribe used birds as a totem, he used to use the bird name as an official name, set up Gongzheng and Nongzheng, and managed handicrafts and agriculture. According to legend, he was known as ShaoHao because of the cultivation of Taihao's method, according to the five elements theory of the ancients, native jin, he named him King Jinde, so he was called Jin Tianshi.
Origin 2, originated from the Xiongnu clan, from the Western Han Dynasty Xiongnu Hutu King's son Jin Riju, belongs to the emperor to give the surname as a surname. During the Western Han Dynasty, the son of the Southern Xiongnu King Xiutu was named RiJu , and during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han , he submitted to the Han Dynasty with his mother , and Emperor Wu of Han gave him the surname "Jin" because he was given the surname of "Jin" by King Xiu Tu because of the sacrifice of Tianjin people, who was once a horse supervisor and later rode a general with merit.
Origin 3, from the change of surname, from the Wuyue State Liu clan in the Five Dynasties period, belongs to the change of surname to a surname. From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties period, Wu Yue founded the State of Wu Yue and became the first monarch of the founding of the country.
Origin 4: Give the surname. The Mongol princes of the Ming Dynasty also first did tugan, and the Yuan people, Such as Esentuk and Alhat Shili, were given the surname of Jin; the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty gave the seven indigenous surnames of Taiwan with the surname of Jin.
Origin 5, give the surname. The Mongol princes of the Ming Dynasty also first did tugan, and the Yuan people, Such as Esentuk and Alhat Shili, were given the surname of Jin; the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty gave the seven indigenous surnames of Taiwan with the surname of Jin.
Origin 6: Ethnic minorities change their surnames
Originating from the Mongols, from the Mongolian royal family during the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to the imperial family name.
Originating from the Jingpo clan, from the Various tribes of the Jingpo clan during the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to the Sinicization and change of surname to surname. During the Ming Dynasty, among the Jingpo clans in the southwest region, there were the Compound surnames Jin Split and heng roll clans. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the ming emperor, strictly forbade the Hu surname, so he took the Han surname as Jin.
Originating from the Dahuoer clan, from the various tribes of the Dahuoer clan during the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to the Sinicization and change of surname to surname.
Originated from the Manchus, from the Manchu clans during the Qing Dynasty, it belongs to the Sinicization and change of surname to clan.
<h1>Population distribution</h1>
The contemporary population of jin surnames has reached nearly 3.8 million, ranking 69th in the country, accounting for about 0.31% of the national population.
From the Ming Dynasty to the present 600 years, the population of the Jin surname has increased from 440,000 to 3.8 million, an increase of more than 8 times, and the growth rate of the Jin population is lower than the average growth rate of the national population.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Jin clan had those who moved to the territory of present-day Gansu Province, such as Jin Zuo, the governor of Northern Qi, who was a native of Anding (present-day northern Jingchuan County, Gansu).
During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, one of the three surnames of Shu Commandery (蜀郡, in Chengdu, Sichuan) was Jin, and one of the four surnames of Hexi Commandery (present-day Linfen, Shanxi) in Fenzhou had Jin.
During the Song and Ming dynasties, in addition to developing in present-day Zhejiang and Jiangsu, the Jin clan in the south was also distributed in present-day Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong and other provinces; in the north, Henan, Hebei, Liaoning and other provinces also had Jin settlements.
Since the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, some people of the Fujian and Guangdong Jin clans have successively moved to Taiwan, and since then, some have moved overseas and lived in Singapore and other countries.
<h1>Last name and name person</h1>
Jin Haixin: Chinese Korean female singer.
Jinsha: Chinese female singer, known as "Mainland Sweet Song Jade Girl Little Diva"
Jin Xing: Chinese dancer and talk show host.
Jin Chen: Chinese mainland film and television actress and model.