The Origin and History of the Lei Family

"Lei" is one of the famous surnames in China. Lei's surname is a long history, multi-ethnic and multi-origin, ranking seventy-eighth in today's surname list and sixty-ninth among hundreds of surnames. It belongs to the big surname series, with a population of about 3.602 million, accounting for about 0.23% of the total population in China.

origin

Lei (Léi) surname comes from:

The origin of Lei surname (Léi) is that the Y chromosome haplotype (paternal origin) of Lei surname population has been detected as follows: o1b1a1a1ayf0861.

1, Jiang Fang. 2. The son's surname is Lei.

3. According to the research of surnames (the same below), at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were "Feishanren" and "Nan 'an Qiang" who changed their surnames to Lei. They have gradually become completely China people. After such a long time, they have become one with the Han nationality, and they can no longer tell each other apart.

4. In Jin Dynasty, Jurchen was a Dian family, and the Han surname was Lei.

5, Manchu Akzhan, changed the Han surname Lei.

6. Jingpo nationality is Chun Lei, and Han nationality is Lei.

7. Buko Jino, China's surname is Lei.

8. Today, the Zhuang, Miao, Yi, Yao, Shui, Achang, She, Qiang, Tujia, Mongolian, Hui and other ethnic groups all have the surname of Lei.

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Lei is a multi-ethnic and multi-source surname with a long history, ranking 78th in the current surname list, belonging to the surname series, with a population of about 3.602 million, accounting for 0.23% of the total population in China.

In the pre-Qin period, the activity of Lei surname was limited to Henan, but it was not active all the time, and there were few records in historical books. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Lei family moved eastward to Anhui and Jiangxi, and began to develop eastward, forming a famous Lei family. Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties is an important period for Lei's development. The Lei family in Qiang, Di, Bashu, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia and Sichuan-Hubei regions in the northwest rose and became sinicized, becoming an important activity center of the Lei family and forming the famous Fengyi Lei family. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Lei continued to develop to the northwest, and immigrants to the south and southeast became the mainstream. In the Ming Dynasty, the focus of Lei's surname shifted to the south and southeast, and there were basically Lei's surnames in all parts of the south, especially in Jiangxi and Fujian.

Before the Jin Dynasty, the Lei family had been distributed in Jiangxi, Anhui, Sichuan, Hubei and other southern provinces. The descendants of Lei Huan, a native of Zhang Yu (now Nanchang, Jiangxi) in the Western Jin Dynasty, are still widely distributed in Fengcheng, Nanchang, Ji 'an, Ganzhou and other places in Jiangxi. One of them moved to Fengyi (now Dali, Shaanxi) and later developed into a famous family. From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Five Dynasties, the Lei settlement developed north and south, spreading to parts of Inner Mongolia, Hunan, Guangdong and other provinces. In the Song Dynasty, the Lei family was more widely distributed, and now there are Lei people living in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi, Hunan, Guangdong and Shanxi provinces. Lei surname is one of the most popular surnames in Han nationality. However, not only in the Han nationality, but also in many ethnic minorities. Many Leiren living in Qinghai and Gansu are Qiang people. For example, during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, Sima Lei's junior two in the former Qin Dynasty was A Qiang in Nan 'an (now Longxi, Gansu). Lei, who migrated to the former State of Chu, was moved by Lei in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was called "Mountain Man" in Nanjun. Some Lei families who migrated to the south of the Yangtze River and the south of the Yangtze River were integrated into Miao, Yao, Yi, Dong, She, Zhuang, Li and Buyi nationalities. Yaoshile is widely distributed in Guangxi, Hunan and Guangdong, such as Lingui and Lingchuan in Guangxi, Chengbu in Hunan, Boluo, Haifeng and Yunfu in Guangdong.