Ni is a multi-ethnic, multi-origin surname group, ranking 16th in today's surname list, and 95th in Taiwan Province, with a total population of about 1.723 thousand, accounting for about 0.11% of the total population of the country.
The Ni and Yi clans are from the Spring and Autumn Period of the Qi clan, which in turn is divided into the State of Qi at that time, and the State of Qi is the descendant of the King of Zhou Wu to the Ancient Emperor Of Qi, and the people with the surname Ni and the surname of Qi in later generations are the descendants of the Yellow Emperor. Regarding the origin of the Ni clan, the "Ni Clan Genealogy" states that it is "the clan calendar is intended to be Zheng Yi Yun Ni", and the five yi of his surname are Ni Shi:
The Ni clan is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor GaoYang's Huan (颛顼) and was originally a "proposed" surname. He was the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, reigned for 78 years, and gave birth to a son "Cang", "Cang" gave birth to "Dayu". "Dayu" has made meritorious contributions to the water and has the world, reigned for 27 years, and gave birth to a son "Qi". "Qi" was born "Taikang", and his descendants went to the Zhou Kingdom to do business, and the surname of the King of Zhou was "Ji". It was passed down to "Ji You" and was given the title of Duke of Zhengguo , the official Worship marquis Huan , and later changed his surname to "Zheng".
Ji You's grandson "Yi Father" was given the title of Viscount of the State of Lu and guarded The Lou (邾娄, in modern Yicheng, Shandong), so he changed his surname to "邾". The grandson of "Yi Father" (邾利) allied with Duke Yin of Lu, and later changed the name of the state of Yi to 胍, and "邾" changed his surname to "郧". Later, he was defeated by the State of Chu, and the Yun clan had to wander away to other places, and changed their surname to "Brother" in order to survive and establish their lives. In the Warring States period, there were "brothers and brothers", who would be slightly overwhelmed, unpredictable, and the officials worshiped the general of the Pillar State, and Chu was a subject, and was even favored by the king of Chu, and was given the surname "Ni", and the Ni clan was determined from then on.
【Migration of the Ni clan】
At present, in Both Tengzhou and Zaozhuang in Shandong Province, there are places called Yucheng, and according to research, these two places are the seats of the State of Guo in the Spring and Autumn Period, and are also one of the original birthplaces of the later Ni and Zhu clans. After the kingdom of Chu was destroyed by Chu, it gradually moved north, mostly settling in the land of thousands of multiplications, and later multiplied and prospered, and gradually became the Thousand Multipliers Of the Ni clan.
During the Warring States period, a Song dynasty official said that during this period, there were already people of the Yu clan in Henan. During the Two Han Dynasties, the surname of Ni (郳) appeared in the annals of history gradually increased, except for Yu Kuan, who was mostly a figure scattered in the history books, such as the Imperial Concubine Yu Yu, bing jia Yu Liang, Yangzhou Thorn Shi Tan Tan, Jiu Zhen Tai Shou Qi, Qiang Lord Yu Ku, Linhuai (present-day Linhuai, Anhui) Tan Changqing, qi Linzi people, And Qi Linzi people. It can be seen that at this time, the Ni clan (郳氏) clan still mainly multiplied in Shandong, and some entered the northern part of Anhui.
At the time of the Han and Wei dynasties, there were Jiangyin Taishou Ni Qi, Shang Shu Zuo Cheng and Ping Zhangshi Ni Shu, and it was extremely difficult to see the Appearance of the Qi clan again, indicating that at this time, the Qi clan had changed to the Ni clan and had been spread to the Jiangnan region.
During the Two Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Ni clan was rarely recorded in the history books. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the distribution of the Ni clan in the north gradually became wider, and there were Ni clan activities in present-day Hebei, Henan, Shanxi and other territories. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, due to the Anshi Rebellion and the Huangchao Rebellion, the people were not happy and the people were miserable, and a large number of Ni clan people moved to Jiangnan.
During the Two Song Dynasties, the Ni clan was recorded in the annals of history, and from the analysis of their place of origin, the Ni clan in this period has been distributed in present-day Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places. At the end of the Song Dynasty, due to the large-scale encirclement and suppression of the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty by the ancestors of the Yuan Dynasty, the jiangnan rivers, Zhejiang, and Fujian were full of flames, and wherever the Yuan soldiers went,
Burning and plundering, the people fled at the sound of the wind, so the Ni clan people have gradually been divided into present-day Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions.
【Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions of Ni' clan】
"White Lotus Hao Ni Clan Genealogy" - Guangdong Qingyuan Ni family, the ancestor Of Ni Qiao Chu, Ming Chongzhen lived in The Twenty-Seven Dukes of Jinjiang County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, after the local name Hou Hook Village. Later, it moved to Bailianhao Village, Hougangdu, Xingren Township, Qingyuan County, Guangzhou Province, Guangdong Province.
"Genealogy of the Ni Clan" - Ni Cuo Ni Clan of Xinheng Town, Jieyang, Guangdong Province, ranked in generations: Shi, Jie, Wei, Jiao, Wan, Duan, Ke, Jie, Hong, Long, Zu, Wu, Yong, Chang, Jian, Ye
"Genealogy of the Ni Clan" - Ranking of the Ni Clan in Chaonan, Shantou, Guangdong: Counselor, Zan, Wan, Cheng, Tong, Huan, Zhang, Pei, Ying, Yu (Yu), Xian, Ren, Jing, Yi (Yi), Wei, Xu, Ze, Yan, Mian, the ancestors of the Ni clan originally lived in Putian, Quanzhou, Fujian, and later moved to Shantou
"Genealogy of the Ni Clan" - Ni Clan of Yaogang Village, Xinwu District, Chongpu Town, Taishan City, Guangdong Province
In addition, there are more than 3,000 Ni clan members in Huaiji County, Zhaoqing City, whose branches are: Lidong Village, Yangmei Town, Yangshan County, Qingyuan City; Ni Village, Yangcheng Town, Yangshan County;
【Chaoshan Ni Clan】
The Chaoshan Ni clan came from JinhuaFu, Zhejiang, and later moved to Fujian, and in September 1368, they moved south from Gumei Township, Putian County, Quanzhou Province, to Guangdong, and settled in Heyang Village, Chaoyang County, Shantou City (now Chaonan Liangying Hefeng), and then lived in Sanyang: Chaoyang, Jieyang, and Haiyang.
【Jieyang Ni Cuo Ni Clan, Generation Ranking】
Division, Jie, Wei, Jiao, Wan, Duan, Ke, Jie, Hong, Long, Zu, Wu, Yong, Chang, Jian, Ye
