Originated from Zhu Rong's family, it is the descendant of Zhu Feng Li since ancient times and belongs to the official name. He Yuan, a descendant of Li Yuan, was regarded as an official in charge of the four seasons of heaven and earth.
Later generations are proud of their ancestors' official positions, that is, they are named after the ancestors of the first official, so they become He Jia. According to the history book "A Brief History of Clans", "Xihe, a man, is the master of the characters of heaven and earth, and He Zhong and He Shu thought it was his surname.
In an agricultural society, the climate of the four seasons is very important, so "he" is a very important official position, with a high status and a prosperous family business. Later generations took the official name as their surname and called it He.
Extended data distribution:
There were about 5.6 million people in the Song Dynasty, accounting for 7.2% of the national population, and it was the second largest surname in the Song Dynasty. The largest province is Hebei, accounting for about 1 1.6% of the total population in China.
The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hebei, Sichuan, Henan and Shandong, accounting for about 44% of the country's total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Hunan and other places. Around the Central Plains, the whole country has formed a crescent-shaped Li gathering area, which consists of three gathering centers: Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Hunan and Jiangxi.
Widely distributed, but uneven. It is the most common surname in southwest and north China. The distribution frequency of the crowd shows that in Yunnan, southern Sichuan, most of Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, central Gansu and most of Jilin and Heilongjiang, the proportion of the local population is generally above 8.8%, covering an area of about 18% of the national map area, and about 30% of the population surnamed Li lives here.
In most areas of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Mongolia, as well as eastern Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi and Guangdong, northern Jiangsu and Anhui, eastern Shandong, Liaoning and other places, Li generally accounts for 6.6%-8.8% of the local population, accounting for about 36% of the national map area, and about 5/kloc-0% of the population lives here.
Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan, most of Jiangsu and Anhui, southwestern Guangxi, Hainan, eastern Guangdong, northwestern Xinjiang and western Gansu generally account for 2.2%-6.6% of the local population, accounting for about 2 1.6% of the land area, and about 19% of the population lives here.