What's the pronunciation of Ni?

Ni's surname was changed from Tan's to avoid vendetta. Tan and Ni are homologous, one city and one surname, and Tan's surname is Ni. This is the basis that Ni originated from Tengzhou.

Ni's family came from Cao, the second son of Emperor Wu of the Yellow Emperor, and took the country name as his surname. According to the records of Tongzhi imperial clan, surname textual research and etymology, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Emperor Wudi of Qi made his second son Yong (the old city was Tengzhou, Shandong Province) and established Yong as his vassal country. Later generations took the country name as their surname, known as Tan's. During the Warring States Period, Tan was destroyed by the State of Chu. In order to avoid enmity, he changed his surname "Er" (pronounced as ní, not simply "Er"), and later added "Yu" to "Tan" to form the Ni family.

Extended data:

1, Nijia is a multi-ethnic and multi-source surname group. ? After being destroyed by Chu, Tan Guo gradually moved northward and settled in the land of Qiancheng, then flourished and gradually became the king of Qiancheng County. During the Warring States Period, it was said in the Song Dynasty that people named Ni settled in Henan during this period.

2. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the distribution of the Ni family gradually spread in the north, and now there are people of the Ni family in Hebei, Henan and Shanxi. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, due to the Anshi Rebellion and the Huang Chao Uprising, the people were in poverty, and Ni moved to Jiangnan in large numbers.

In the early Ming Dynasty, in order to restore the local economy, the Ming government immigrated from Shanxi in large numbers. As one of the surnames of pagoda tree immigrants in Hongdong in Ming Dynasty, Ni moved to Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hebei and other places. Now, Nishi is widely distributed all over the country, especially in Jiangsu, Hubei, Shanghai and other provinces and cities. Ni surname in the above three places accounts for about 60% of the Han population in China.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Ni surname