The surname Shen is the forty-ninth surname with the most Chinese, and is the most prestigious in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai regions. Today, the Shen population accounts for about 0.41% of the country's population, and the total population is about 5.5 million.
Shen, the Shuowen explains as water in the recesses on the mountain. The word "Shen" in the oracle bone is like throwing cattle and sheep in the water. The seal book was changed from the sound of water.
Again, "Shen" originates from "冘". The way people walk, like people between the doors, is hesitant to go out or not. Guangyun's commentary on 冘: 冘豫 uncertain. Yu Yu and Hesitating, in ancient times, Yu, Shen, You, you communicate. Hesitation is actually a kind of beast, that is, a monkey, is a short foot can climb on all four feet, climb trees quickly, and are good at jumping between branches like flying, but cowardly and timid, this kind of monkey has been extinct long before the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
The Shen people are related to clans that use cattle, sheep and livestock to throw into the river to sacrifice to the sky and pray for rain, or to clans that use monkeys as the original totem of the clan. Taking Shen as the clan name and clan emblem, the place where the Shen people lived was called Shen, and the wall was surrounded by a wall called Shen Yi, and finally developed into the Shen Kingdom, and the Shen surname appeared.
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The surname Shen is the ancestor
The ancestor of the Shen surname - Shen Jizai
There are four main origins of the Shen surname:
One: from the surname wins
Descendants of the Yellow Emperor, the Shi Shen clan initially lived in Shen Yu of Qufu, Shandong, and later became a branch of the Dongyi clan, so it was a surname of Yin. Later, he moved west to the land of the Great Xia clan to establish the Shen Kingdom. Xia Xing, the Xia people surnamed Xia seized the land of the Shen state, and the Shen people moved south to Henan Gushi Qiu to establish a state. Xia was extinguished, and the surname Shen was restored. After the fall of Shang, the State of Jin annexed Shen Tu, and the people surnamed Shen fled south to The State of Shenqiu in Henan, and king Zhao of Zhou destroyed the state when he marched south to Huaiyi. The history of the Shen surname is at least 3,000 years.
Second: from the surname of Ji
Xia Xing, the Xia people with the surname Xia seized the land of the Shen state with the surname of Yin and established the state of Shen with the surname of Xia. Xia was destroyed, the surname Shen people restored the country, the surname Shen moved south to the state of Yuqiu, the zhou dynasty was destroyed by the state of Jiang, and the surname Shen fled south to Shen Lu in Chu and became the State of Chu. The surname Shen has been more than 3,000 years old.
At the beginning of the Shang Dynasty, a branch of the Shen clan and the Shen clan of the Yin surname in southern Shanxi moved to Hanyuan in central Sichuan, mixed with the Li people, established the Shen state, descended to Qin during the Warring States period, gradually assimilated by the Qiang people, and later all integrated into the Han nationality.
Third: from the surname Ji
Ji Zai, the son of King Wen of western Zhou, was in Shen, in present-day Pingyubei, Henan, also known as 聃. In 506 BC, it was destroyed by the state of Cai, and the descendants took the kingdom as their clan. During the reign of King Zhao of Western Zhou, the State of Jiang annexed the state of Shen (沈国) with the surname of Ji (姒), and made his son the State of Shen (沈国) with the surname of Ji. Duke Lu created his son Shen Ji (沈季) to Shen Yu (沈犹), with Shen as his clan. Shen Ji followed King Zhao of Western Zhou to the south to conquer Huaiyi, destroyed the state of Shen (沈国) with the surname Shen Qiu (沈丘) in Henan, and enfeoffed his son Shen Zi (沈子) at Shen Qiu Ji (沈丘集) in Linquan County, Anhui Province, and established the State of Shen Zi (沈子国) with the surname Of Ji. In the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Chu destroyed the two States of Shen surnamed Ji. The Ji surname Shen has a history of 2500 years.
Fourth: from the surname Qi
When the chu state of Chu mu was king, the state of Shen destroyed the state of Shen in Gushi, Henan, and the king of Chu Zhuang sealed The son of Sun Shu'ao to Yu Shen, and his son Gongzi Zhen to Shen Lu, in present-day Hubei At the foot of dahong Mountain. The descendants of both places are surnamed Shen, and the Shen surname is also 2500 years old.
Foreign genetic integration
Other major events in which the surname of Shen was changed were: during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Southern Tang Dynasty destroyed Min, and Wang Zhenzhi's descendants changed their surnames due to the destruction of the country, mostly You, Shen, and Ye. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the ancestors of the Zhuang, Yi and other ethnic groups in Yunnan, the Qing Manchus, the Qing Goryeo and the Mongols all used the Shen surname. After a long period of mixing with the Han chinese, most of these foreign nationalities were assimilated into the Shen surname of the southwest and northeast Han people.
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Distribution map of Shen surname
Population distribution
In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of the Shen surname has surged from 950,000 to 5.5 million, an increase of nearly 6 times, and the increase rate of the Shen population is much lower than the increase rate of the national population. In the 1000 years since the Song Dynasty, the increase rate of the population of the Shen surname is ∧.1. The distribution in the whole country is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, accounting for about 35% of the total population of Shen, followed by Shanghai, Anhui, Guangdong, Hubei, Fujian, Sichuan, Henan, and these seven provinces and cities are concentrated in 34.5%. Jiangsu is the largest province with the contemporary Surname Shen, with 17.8% of the total population of the Shen surname, followed by Zhejiang with 17.2%. The whole country has formed a distribution of outward scattering centered on Jiangsu and Zhejiang. During the nearly 600 years, the degree and direction of population movement of the Shen surname was different from that of the Song and Yuanming dynasties, and the return migration to the north, middle and south was very strong, which was already greater than the migration from north to southeast and south.
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Shen surname blood type diagram
The blood group distribution of the Shen surname population is generally:
Type O accounted for 33.8%, Type A accounted for 29.2%, Type B accounted for 28.2%, and Type AB accounted for 8.8%.
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Shen Congwen
Shen Congwen (1902-1988), formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, is a famous modern writer, researcher of historical relics, and representative figure of Jingpai novels, with representative works such as "Border City", "Long River", and the prose collection "Xiangxing Sanji".
Shen Kuo
Shen Kuo (1031–1095), a northern Song Dynasty scientist and reformer. There is a huge work of notes in the body of "Mengxi Pen Talk".
Jin Manzo
Shen Wansan (1330-1379), formerly known as Shen Fu, was a giant rich man at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. In the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, he moved with his father from Nanxun in Huzhou to Dongtuo, Zhouzhuang, and started his family with cultivation, and later relied on the unique geographical advantages of Zhouzhuang to carry out overseas trade activities. Eventually, he became the richest man in Jiangnan with "huge assets and huge fields all over the world".
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Gunwang and Tang No.: The county name of Shen is Wuxing. The hall names of the Shen surname mainly include Wuxing, Mengxi and so on. The "Mengxi" hall is a reference to the Song Dynasty's Shen Kuo. Shen Kuo is erudite and capable of writing, and is the third envoy of the Hanlin Bachelor. He knew everything about astronomy, almanac, fangzhi, music, and medicine. He began to manufacture astronomical instruments such as armillary celestial instruments, scenery watches, and floating leaks, and pioneered geometry, especially the laws of circles and arcs. He is the author of "Mengxi Pen Talk".
There are five important couplets with the surname Shen:
Four voices are scored; three good names are famous.
Stone lamps remained; cloud nests were woven.
Yongming Creation Body; Shudu Tongliu.
Ruyuan Liucai; Yuzhu Divides Hua.
The humane master's table is only the talent of good history; Kuang Zheng Mingxian, Ke Shu Wen Zhi Yan.
Family training motto: Shen's family training is the most important in the Ming Dynasty minister Shen Lian. Shen Lian, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Jiajing Jinshi, an official with the experience of JinyiWei. He has always regarded the great affairs of the world as his own responsibility, and he is upright and does not attach power, so his admonition to his disciples also takes this as his priority. He demanded that his son should respect the heroes and talents, and alienate the ignorant people. Oppose mediocre behaviors that do not concern state affairs, such as "only knowing the excerpts of chapters and excerpts, grace between etiquette", "following the years, not doing what is timely, and drowning when things are lost". Shen Lian's training is righteous and strong, and it can be called a clear training.