1, from Jiang's surname

Cui Shi's most important ancestor was Jiang. According to Yuan He Shi Dian, Jiang Taigong was awarded the title of Qi State for actively assisting Zhou Wuwang, and later generations also inherited this title. However, in Qi's generation, his eldest son, Jiang, gave way to Uncle B.

After Uncle B succeeded to the throne, he sealed Jiang in zouping county, Shandong Province, and the descendants of Jiang took the city as their surname, eventually forming the most authentic Cui Shi. After Cui changed his surname, he became a very famous bureaucratic family at that time because he held an important position in Qi State.

However, by the eighth generation of Jiang, due to the failure of political struggle, Cui Shi lost power in Qi, and finally Cui Shi took refuge in Lu. Later, in the Han Dynasty, Cui Ye, the eldest son of Cui, a descendant of Cui Shi, settled in Qinghe, and eventually formed the modern Qinghe Cui Shi, which was also the first of the five surnames and seven families.

2. Starting from changing your surname

Like the origin and origin of Zhao surname, many people changed their surnames from ethnic minorities. For example, there are many Cui Shi among the Silla people recorded in the New Tang Book. During the Tang Dynasty, many Korean students on the Korean peninsula went to the Tang Dynasty, but at that time, Cui had the largest number except the royal Li surname, so Cui became the most popular surname in North Korea.

Population distribution:

The population of contemporary Cui surname has reached more than 4.2 million, which is the 58th surname in China, accounting for about 0.34% of the national population. Since the Song Dynasty, Cui's population has been decreasing during the period of 1000. At present, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shandong, Hebei and Henan provinces, where Cui's surname accounts for 42% of the total population.

Secondly, it is distributed in Liaoning, Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Shaanxi and Jilin, and the Cui surname in these six provinces is concentrated by 32%. The whole country has formed two major Cui surname gathering areas: Hebei, Henan, Heilongjiang and Liaoning. During the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population migration of Cui surname from southeast to North China and Central China was very strong, and it was one of the more common surnames in North China and Northeast China.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cui surname