Hundreds of family totems named Zhu
Is Zhu Totem the oldest Chinese dictionary in China? In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, right? Zhu? Made the following description:? Zhu, mahogany, pine and cypress. Judging from the wood, there is one in it. ? So, what about Zhu's? Zhu? Word, its original meaning is not red, but refers to a red heart tree. Profound ancient philologists explain: ancient? Zhu? What is this word? What does combination mean? Characters with both pictographic and referential features. It can also be seen clearly from the inscriptions on Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Oracle bones. Zhu? Any news? Wood? And then what? One? It consists of two parts:? Wood? Like a tree. One? Is it an indicative symbol, originally written? . ? The shape marked on the wood symbolizes the heart of the tree. Duan Yucai, a scholar of the Collection of Daizong in Qing Dynasty, clearly pointed out that Zhu was an all-rounder. You can't imagine a pure heart, so you can know it? . Like what? Ben. The word of a finger under the tree? At the end? A finger in the world is the same as a tree. Zhu? A finger of the word on the tree.
Zhu's origin ancestors
Origin and origin
1, which originated from Zhu Xiang family, takes the name of the ancestor as the surname. Zhu Xiangjia is a minister of the government. He was sealed in Zhu (now Zhecheng County, Henan Province), with the red heart wood Zhu as the totem. Later, Zhu Xiang became a family? Emperor Yan? Zhu Xiang, Emperor Yan, lived in Zhecheng County, Henan Province for three generations, and his descendants took Zhu as their surname.
2. Originated from Zhu Hu, a descendant of Zhu Hu, a minister in the ancient Emperor Shun period, with Zhu Hu as his ancestor. Zhang Zhu, a hermit in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhu Mao, a Qi man in the Warring States, Zhu Hai, a Hercules in the Wei State, and Zhu Jin, a Hou in the Western Han Dynasty, are all descendants of Zhu Hu.
3. Zhu's family began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, taking the country name as the surname (because the ancestor of the surname is Cao Pi, this branch is also considered to be derived from Cao's surname). It is said that Cao was imprisoned in Lebanon and built his capital there. Its adherents took the country as their surname and called it Zhu. During the Warring States Period, the State of Chu destroyed Zhao, and the nobles of Zhao fled everywhere. In order not to forget the motherland, they removed their ears and changed their surnames to Zhu. [4]
4. Originated from the surname of Ji, taking the country name as the surname. The ancient Yi people mainly lived in Zouxian County, Shandong Province.
5, from the son's surname, take the name of the ancestor as the surname. After Zhu, the grandson of Song and Wei Dynasties, Zhu was the ancestor. Zhou Chengwang's name is Cabbage, the brother of Shang Zhouwang's concubines, who was offered as a sacrifice to businessmen in the Song Dynasty. By the end of the Warring States Period in 286 BC, the State of Qi had destroyed the Song Dynasty. Descendants of Zhu, the son who lives in Dangshan, Jiangsu, take the names of their ancestors as their surnames. [ 1]
6. Originated from the Qi surname, taking the name of the ancestor as the surname. It originated from Dani, the son of Yaodi, and took Dani as the ancestor of Kaishi, belonging to the direct descendant of Yaodi. After Shun defeated Danzhu in Danpu, a descendant of Danzhu migrated to southwest China, which was mainly distributed in the wild in Cangwu (now Jiuyi Mountain in Ningyuan, Hunan Province) in the pre-Qin period. They survived the social evolution and developed into a noble family in the county during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, forming an important tribe in today's Zhu family.
7, from the change of surname:
① Xianbei people changed their surnames to Zhu: They came from Xianbei tribes in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and belonged to the Chinese family name change. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, after the Northern Wei moved the capital to Luoyang, Xiaowen Tuoba Hong began to implement a large-scale sinicization reform policy. Among them, it is an important measure to change the compound surname of northern Hu people into the single surname of Han people. During this period, a large number of northern minorities changed their compound surnames to Zhu.
(2) Mongolia changed to Zhu's family: it came from the begging department of Mongolia in the Yuan Dynasty, and it was a Chinese name change. Mongolian Jurjit Emuke lived in Sirtara (now Gu Yong Town, Zhangye, Gansu Province). After the middle of Qing Dynasty, the Chinese surname was Zhu. Mongolian Zhuerqi lived in Sarha Zhan (now Tongliao, Inner Mongolia). After the middle of Qing Dynasty, the surnames of Han nationality were Zhu and Deng. Mongolian Zurgut people live in Horqin (now Horqin, Jilin). After the middle of Qing Dynasty, there were many Han surnames: Zhu, Zhou and Kang.
(3) Originated from other ethnic minorities, belonging to the surname of China. There are various ethnic groups in Mulao, Miao, Yao, Tujia, Naxi, Dongxiang and Bai. Its sources were mostly in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, when the central government implemented the policy of retaining people, and in the movement of changing the land into the stream, the stream was changed to the Han surname Zhu.
(4) It comes from changing the surname and belongs to the surname given by the emperor. When the Ming Dynasty was founded, he was named Zhu to show his friendship. There are two kinds of surname Zhu. One is to give foreigners barbarians Zhu, so as to win over and show their gentleness. Another surname is to praise the minister and show his affection.
Get a surname ancestor
Zhu Xie, Zhu Xingjing and Zhu Zhen are the ancestors of this surname.
Zhu's population distribution
In the Song Dynasty, there were about 165438+ 10,000 people surnamed Zhu, accounting for about 1.4% of the national population, ranking tenth. The largest province of Zhu surname is Jiangxi, accounting for 15.8% of the total population of Zhu surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Henan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which account for about 50% of Zhu's total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Sichuan, Anhui and Hubei. At that time, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Sichuan and Hubei were the two major gathering places of Zhu.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 6.5438+0.86 million people surnamed Zhu, accounting for about 2% of the national population, ranking 1 1. Zhejiang is the largest province with Zhu surname, accounting for about 19.4% of the total population of Zhu surname in China. The distribution in China is concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Jiangxi provinces, accounting for 565,438+0% of the total population of Zhu. Secondly, it is distributed in Gansu, Shandong and Fujian provinces. During the 600-odd years of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Zhu's population mainly migrated from the north to the southeast and south, and also to the northwest and southwest. The country has re-formed three areas where Zhu's population is concentrated: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, Fujian and Gansu.
At present, the population of Zhu has reached more than 6.5438+0.5 million, which is the 13th largest surname in China, accounting for 654.38+0.2% of the national population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of Zhu increased from 65,438 0.86 million to 65,438 0.5 million, an increase of about 8 times. The population growth rate of Zhu is much lower than that of the whole country. This may be related to the fact that after the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the royal family Zhu changed his surname because he was hunted down and fled the national disaster, and other surnames changed back to the original surnames. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, accounting for about 44% of Zhu's total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Hunan, Shandong, Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Hebei and Shanghai, accounting for about 34%. Jiangsu is the largest province with Zhu surname, accounting for about 15% of the population of Zhu surname in China. The whole country has formed a high-density residential area of Zhu surname in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui.
The population distribution frequency of contemporary Zhu surname is in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, southern Shandong, eastern Hubei, northern Fujian, central and northern Guangdong, most of Yunnan, southern Sichuan, southwestern Guizhou and northern Inner Mongolia. Generally, Zhu's surname accounts for more than .32% of the local population 1.32%, and it can reach as high as 2.4% in some areas. The coverage area of the above areas accounts for 65,438+04% of the total land area. In most areas of Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi-Gansu, Ningxia, Sichuan-Guizhou, Chongqing, Guangxi, western Hunan, western and eastern Guangdong, Hainan, southern Fujian, Taiwan Province Province, eastern Qinghai, northeastern Xinjiang, central and eastern Inner Mongolia, eastern Hebei, Beijing-Tianjin and Heijiliao, the surname Zhu generally accounts for 0.66%-1.30 of the local population.