Does Zhou mean your surname?

In ancient times, Zhou was a noble surname. In ancient China, the hierarchy was very clear, and the surname Zhou was always a noble surname. Therefore, Zhou's name is also very particular. Because Zhou's surname mainly comes from Ji's surname, the ancestor of Zhou's surname is Ji Chang, a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. After Zhou was destroyed by Qin in 256 BC, a considerable number of descendants of Zhou imperial clan and adherents of Zhou Dynasty took Zhou as their surname.

The origin of Zhou:

Zhou's surname originated from Weihe Plain in Shaanxi Province. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, as the capital moved from Shaanxi to Henan, the surname of Zhou also moved from west to east. After Pingdong moved to Luoyang, Zhou greatly multiplied and became a giant family.

Initially, Zhou's surname was mainly centered on Henan and Shaanxi. Qin destroyed the six countries, and after the war at the end of Qin Dynasty, Zhou moved to southern Henan and northern Jiangsu and became a famous family.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zhou moved south with the gentry of the Central Plains. In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, warlords scuffled, especially in the late Northern Song Dynasty and the late Southern Song Dynasty, Mongolian soldiers went south, and Zhou's surname in Henan, Shandong and other central plains moved south in large numbers, mainly to Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Ji 'an Prefecture in Jiangxi Province immigrated to Shaoyang, Hunan Province.