Who knows the origin of Cui?

Cui is the 74th surname in China with a large population, accounting for 0.28% of the Han population in China.

Trace the source

1, from Jiang. According to Tang Shu, Prime Minister's Genealogy Table and Yuan He's Compilation, Ji Zi, a descendant of Shennong, once took food and wine as a fief (now Zhangqiu County, Shandong Province), and later took Yi as his surname and became Cui Shi, Shandong Province.

2. According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, there was a person named Cui in Silla in the Tang Dynasty.

3. Cui is the surname of Koreans and Manchu in Qing Dynasty; Today, Yi, Hui, Mongolian, Tu and other ethnic groups all have Cui surname.

Get a surname ancestor

Cui. According to legend, Emperor Yan Shennong is the son of Shaodian, named after living on the bank of Weihe River tributary. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, his successor was Lu Shang, surnamed Jiang, named Ziya, and called Jiang Ziya. He was awarded the title of Qi (now northern Shandong) for his meritorious service in helping to destroy the business. Our son is Qi Zaishi's son. Ji Dinggong's eldest son, Ji Zi, should have inherited the throne of Qi, but he gave it to his younger brother, Uncle B, who was eating in Cui Yi. Later generations took the city as their surname, called Cui Shi, and Ji Zi, who was kind and virtuous, was the ancestor of Cui Shi.

Reproduction and migration

Cui Shi's ancestral home is Shandong. The descendants of Ji Zi have always been officials of the State of Qi. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Cui Yiru, a descendant of Ji Zi, was appointed as a doctor of Qin State (now Xianyang, Shaanxi Province), and was later named in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Cui, the eldest son, was born in the eastern part of the Western Han Dynasty and lived in Wucheng (now northeast of Qinghe County, Hebei Province and west of Wucheng County, Shandong Province). Later, it was divided into Yanling (now Henan Province), Nanzu, Qinghe Dafang, Qinghe Xiaofang and Qinghe Qingzhou Fang. The second son, Cui Zhongmou, lived in Anping, Boling (now Hebei), and was later divided into three tribes: Boling Pingzhai, Boling Mansion, Boling Erzhai and Boling Sanzhai. Cui family can be called prominent and rich, so there are two counties: Qinghe and Boling. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, warlords scuffled, and Cui Ya, the secretariat of Pingzhou, led his people to live in Korea, which later developed into a big Korean family. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Cui was still famous for his aristocratic family. Historically, in the Western Jin Dynasty, Cui ranked first among the northern gentry, so he ranked first among the first-class surnames "Cui Wang". The List of Prime Ministers' Genealogy in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty contains: "Cui Yin (grandson of Cui VIII) has seven sons, the eldest son is Dongzu, the second son Cui Han is Xizu, and the third son is Nanzu, also known as Zhongzu. The grandchildren of IV Cui Lin, Wei, Anyang Xiaohou, great-grandson, former Zhao Situ, Zuo Chang 'an and Guan Neihou have three sons: Xiongnu, Qian and Zhan. Cui Wei, the grandson of Cui Zhan, was a secretariat of Yanzhou in the Northern Wei Dynasty. He lived in Xingyang (now Henan) and was named Cui Shi. "In the Tang Dynasty, there were as many as 27 officials and prime ministers in the name of Cui (23 in New Tang Book and four in Collation Book), which shows Cui's prominent position in the Tang Dynasty. During this period, Cui's breeding place was mainly in the north, and Cui's surname was distributed in Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Gansu. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, many Cui surnames moved south to Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi Sophora japonica tree Cui immigrated to sparsely populated places. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of people named Cui moved to Liaodong, mostly living with Koreans. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were people who settled in Southeast Asian countries. In short, after the Tang Dynasty, although Cui Shi moved one after another, it was still the northern surname. Today, Cui is more common in Shandong, Henan, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jiangsu and other provinces. The above five provinces account for about 60% of the population of Han nationality in Cui Shi.