How many surnames are there in China?

Surname source: The initial surname comes from the Qi surname, and it was changed to the initial surname because of the emperor's slip of the tongue. Around 11 in the Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor called Qi Yong, a foreign aid worker in charge of managing money and grain, and mistakenly called Qi Qing's family as Chu Qing's family. Because no one dared to point out the emperor's slip of the tongue, he changed his surname from Qi Yong's grandfather Chu Hui 'an to Chu Hui 'an. Therefore, the ancestor of the first surname is Chu Huian.

Migration route: ancestors first moved from Hengyang, Hunan Province to Jiangling, Hubei Province (now Jingzhou City), then to Xingshan, Jinzhou, Liaoning Province (early Tang Dynasty), and then moved to Zhifu Island, Shandong Province (under the jurisdiction of Yantai) at the end of Tang Dynasty. After the ban was lifted in Northeast China in 184, the Qing Dynasty traveled from Shandong to Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Jilin. More initial surnames. It is distributed in all countries.

Anecdote: Chu Ming Ge: My family lives in Chu Wang Village, Penglai, and the memorial tablet of Chu Peng Ling was once dedicated in the ancestral hall. Although our family and Chu Peng Ling share the same surname, their pedigree is far away and there is no way to sort them out. The reason for offering them is that Chu Peng Ling was kind to Chu Wang Chu.

during the Jiaqing period of the Qing dynasty, some people of my family opened a rice mill in Beijing. There is a wealthy family next to the workshop, who wants to close the workshop on the grounds that the noise of rice is disturbing its rest. My people have no friends in Beijing, and in the face of persecution, they have no choice but to leave Beijing and return home. While packing, the neighbor who came to visit said, why not ask Chu Peng Ling, then assistant minister of the Ministry of War? My people say that I am not related to Chu Peng Ling, nor a fellow villager, but a powerful person. I am Shu Ren, so I'm afraid people won't help me. Neighbors say you can't write two initial words in one stroke, so try it. In order to make a living, my people visited Chu Peng Ling with trepidation. At the beginning, Peng Ling warmly received the people with the same surname. After understanding the purpose, he said that it was inconvenient to intervene in this matter. He came up with an idea: one day, he got off the sedan chair in front of our people's workshop and asked our people not to meet him. After he entered the workshop, our people made a cup of tea on the table in the courtyard, and then continued to work. He left after drinking a few mouthfuls of water, and did not want to send it away. A few days later, Chu Peng Ling did visit, and my people acted according to the plan. As a result, the rich man didn't come to make things difficult, but moved away. From then on, our ancestral temple dedicated the memorial tablet of the early Peng Ling and set up a monument (this monument was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution).