During the pre-Qin period, Ren mainly lived in Chongqing, Shandong, Henan, Hubei and other places. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Ren Shi had spread to Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. During the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, the surname Ren was more widely distributed, but the main body was still in the North and the Central Plains. By the Song Dynasty, this surname had emigrated to Fujian. ?
The development of Ren surname in history;
During the Song Dynasty, there were about 350,000 people surnamed Ren, accounting for 0.46% of the national population, ranking 47th. The largest province with the surname of Ren is Sichuan, accounting for about 3 1% of the total population of Ren. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Sichuan, Shandong and Henan, which account for about 70% of the total population in China.
Secondly, it is distributed in Hubei and Gansu, where the surname is 14%. The surnames of China are mainly distributed in the north of the Yangtze River, forming three surnames gathering areas with Sichuan and Gansu in the west as the center, Henan and Hubei in the middle and Qilu in the east.
The above contents refer to:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Ren surname