1, from the government, takes the place name as the surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a doctor in the State of Chu was sealed in Mi Pavilion in Nanjun, and his descendants took the fief as their surname, which was called Mi's. According to Zhou Shu, there was Mi State in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and people in China took Mi as their surname.

2, from the ancestral name. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Chu had a public secret (official name) and the surname was Mi, and later generations named it Mi after his ancestor.

3. It comes from the name of the object grain that the occupation is engaged in. According to "Examination of Hundreds of Surnames", "Xia is a vassal with the same surname and has a surname of Mi." In the Xia Dynasty, there were princes with the same surname, who specialized in growing crops such as beans and millet. At that time, it was a very advanced production activity because there was a reliable harvest every year. Therefore, the person who planted Mi is rich and glorious, and later generations take his industry as their surname, and the surname Mi is called Mi. The ancient book "Tracing the Origin of Surnames" said: "There are Mi as millet, that is, Mi family, so this is the surname, such as Mai family, He family and Su family." It turns out that a kind of millet is called "millet", and the ancestor named Mi is a clan that grows millet crops. In ancient times, people lived by gathering and hunting, which was both hard and insecure; Because of the fixed harvest, planting crops was a very advanced mode of production at that time. In ancient times, most of the dense aristocratic families came from the East China Sea.

Great names in history

Mi Xin: During the Three Kingdoms period, Wu was a scholar and Guan Leping was a magistrate. He is the author of twelve volumes of Biography of Spring and Autumn Valley Liang, ten volumes of Notes on Spring and Autumn Annals, and Han Shu of Spring and Autumn Annals.

Mizhu: Zizizhong, a native of the East China Sea, has been doing business in Mizhu for generations, so his descendants have nearly 10,000 guests and assets of hundreds of millions. Later, Xuzhou Pastoral Tao Qian hired him as a driver. After Tao Qian's death, Mi Zhu received orders from Tao Qian to welcome Liu Bei to succeed Xuzhou as a shepherd. Mi Zhu's sister married Liu Bei, that is, Mrs Mi who entrusted Adou to Zhao Yun and threw herself into the well.

Mi Fang: Zi Zifang, a native of Yiren County, Donghai (now Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province), is Mi Zhu's younger brother. Liu Bei entered Sichuan and was highly valued by Liu Bei. He used to be the satrap of Nanjun County, and he was guarding Jingzhou with Guan Yu.

Mi wenhao; Zizhong (190 1- 1927) was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu. 1923 works in the compilation institute of Shanghai Commercial Press. In the same year, he was admitted to Shanghai University. The following year, he joined the China * * * Production Party and went to Moscow Oriental University. /kloc-returned to China in the autumn of 0/925, and served as the organizing committee member of the West Shanghai Committee of Shanghai prefectural committee. 1927 participated in the organization of the third armed uprising of Shanghai workers, and served as the editorial director of the People's Daily. 1927 "April 12th" Chiang Kai-shek was arrested and killed after a counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai.