Where did Su surname come from?

Su surname is the 4th1surname in China, which is more common in Guangdong, Guangxi and North China. Among the nearly 65.438+0.2 billion Han population in contemporary China, the population surnamed Su accounts for about 0.47%, that is, there are at least 47 people surnamed Su out of every 65.438+0 million people in China, with a total population of about 5.6 million.

Surname Su, Totem Su, namely Perilla, also known as Perilla. Sue's original meaning is planting grass. Perilla frutescens is panicum miliaceum of Labiatae. Its stem is square, its leaves are two-sided, or its back is purple, and it has red or reddish flowers in summer. Stems, leaves and seeds can be used as medicine, and their tender leaves were used for seasoning in ancient times, and seeds can also be used to extract oil. The family emblem and family name of Su surname, where they live is called Su, and the castle is called Su Yi, which eventually developed into the country and surname.

The origin and evolution of su surname. The origin of Su surname is mainly due to surname. The source can be traced back to Zhuan Xu Emperor by Levin, a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. According to legend, Zhuan Xu's son claimed to live in Ruhe area in the southeast of Henan Province. Laotong, the son of Laotong, and Li, the son of Laotong, successively served as Zhu Rong's family in the family era. Zhu Rong family was the title of the leader in charge of fire in ancient times, which represented the extremely high status and power in the clan. Li of Zhu Rong was found guilty and succeeded Zhu Rong. Wu Hui's sons, Lu Zhong and Lu Zhong, had six sons and later developed into six tribes, belonging to six surnames. Lu Zhong's eldest son, Fan, is a surname family, who lives in Kunwu, which is now Anyi Town in the northeast of Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, and later developed into a powerful Kunwu tribe, known as Kunwu family in history. In the middle of summer, around 1800 BC, Emperor Huaidi (or Emperor Fendi) named the descendant of Kunwu as Su, who lived in Suling, west of Huixian County, Henan Province, and was called Su in history. Crispy oil is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with Su Cao as its totem, namely Perilla frutescens. After two dynasties, Xia and Shang dynasties, at the end of Shang dynasty, it was destroyed, and the people took Su as their surname, and the Su people scattered. A Sioux people moved eastward to Gusu, which is now Suzhou, Jiangsu. The first time was to go north to Sioux City, which is now the west of Linzhang County, Hebei Province. After the business in Zhou Wuwang was destroyed, a branch from the north continued to move northward to Sulou Pavilion in Guo Xiang, which is now southwest of Xingtai, Hebei. Then moved to Suzhou, southwest of Wanxian County. The Sioux people who stayed in Suling surrendered to the Zhou Dynasty, and Su Fensheng, the leader, entered the Dynasty and became the shepherd of Zhou Wuwang. He was sealed in the Soviet Union, with a warm capital in wen county, Henan Province. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Soviet state was destroyed in Germany in 650 BC. Su Fensheng, the first famous Su surname, was sacrificed by later generations as the ancestor of Su surname. Su surname has a history of at least 3800 years. A family of Su moved south to Meishan, Hunan, and became Meishan people. In the early Song Dynasty, they moved further south, some of them became ancestors of Yao nationality, and most of them became Su surnames of Han nationality in Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi.

The second branch of foreign gene inflow comes from the change of foreign surname. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the northern tribes gradually became stronger and invaded and expanded to the south. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the wars in the north continued year after year, and the regime of the Central Plains changed frequently. A large number of northern nationalities entered the Central Plains, and the Central Plains people moved south to the east, and a large number of foreign genes began to blend into the northern Han people. The foreigners who joined the Su surname group mainly included: Su surname of Wuhuan Department in Eastern Liaoning in Han and Jin Dynasties, Buluo nationality of Xianbei nationality in Northern Wei Dynasty, Tangut surname of Hongxixia in Northern Song Dynasty and Jurchen surname of Jin Dynasty. Until the Qing Dynasty, the people of Manchu Eight Banners, such as Ileri, Su Jia, Su Du Li and Su Jia, were all changed to Su Han people. These ethnic minorities have lived together with the Han nationality for a long time and gradually merged into the local Su Han ethnic group.

The distribution and migration of Su surname in history During the pre-Qin period, the main active areas of Su surname were in Henan and Hebei. During the Warring States period, one moved to Hubei and Hunan in the south and one moved to Shaanxi in the west. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the surname Su had spread eastward and moved to Shandong, and the surname Su in Shaanxi in the west had developed into a noble family. During the Jin Dynasty, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places in the southeast and Guangdong in the south all had Su's footprints. In the Tang Dynasty, Su immigrated to Sichuan and Zhongyuan immigrated to Fujian twice. The Su surname among immigrants has developed steadily in Fujian. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Su moved westward to Sichuan and Yunnan, and southward to Guangdong and Guangxi, and crossed into Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. Su surname immigrated to Taiwan Province Province many times in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and now it has become the most popular surname in Taiwan Province Province. During the Song Dynasty, there were about 460,000 people surnamed Su, accounting for 0.59% of the national population, ranking 33rd. The largest province of Su surname is Sichuan, accounting for about 43% of the total population of Su surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Sichuan and Fujian, among which Su's surname accounts for about 57% of the total population, followed by Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and other provinces. Three regions with concentrated population of Su surname have initially formed in China: Sichuan in the west, Fujian in the southeast and Shandong in the north. During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 370,000 Su surnames, accounting for 0.4% of the national population, and it was the 64th most popular surname in the Ming Dynasty. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the net growth rate of national character was 20%, and the population growth of Su surname was negative, a net decrease of 90,000 compared with the Song Dynasty. Guangxi is the largest province with Su surname, accounting for 19% of the total population of Su surname. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Guangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hebei, Jiangsu and Shanxi, and the Su surname in these six provinces is concentrated by 35%. In the past 600 years, the Su surname in the south has developed greatly, and Sichuan, a province with Su surname in the Song Dynasty, was very popular in the Ming Dynasty. Over the past 600 years in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the overall distribution pattern of Su surname has changed greatly, and the population mainly migrated from north to southeast and from west to south. The country has re-formed two major regions where the population of Su surname is concentrated, namely Guangxi, Guangdong and Fujian in the south and Shandong in the north.