What is the origin of Liu?

Origin: Liu is the surname of Gu Descendants. Yao's surname is Qi. According to legend, Lei, a descendant of Yao, is from Xia. A female dragon died because of bad breeding. He was afraid of Xia Di's punishment and secretly fled to Henan. His descendants thought the surname was Liu, the earliest surname in China. One of Liu Lei's descendants was named Du Bo, and Du Bo's son's great-grandson fled to Qin State because of domestic unrest, and later returned to China, but his son stayed in Qin State, and the descendants who stayed in Qin State resumed Liu's surname and lived in today's Shaanxi Province. In the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bangci intermarried with some ethnic minorities and Xiang Bo clans. Later, Liu Bang married the Xiongnu and married the daughter of the royal family to the Xiongnu Khan. Because Huns have the habit of taking their mother's surname, many Huns are surnamed Liu. Due to the prosperity of the Han dynasty, the population of Liu has also developed greatly. In the early days, the surname Liu mainly developed and multiplied in the north. Liu moved to Fujian in the Jin Dynasty and to Guangdong and Guangxi in the Tang Dynasty. In the history of China, with as many as 66 kings and emperors of Wei Liu, the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Han Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, the Northern Han Dynasty and the Daqi Dynasty were successively established. * * * lasted for more than 650 years, and it was the longest surname of China feudal dynasty. Liu has been in power for a long time and enjoys privileges, which is an important reason for the great development of population. There are also many talented people named Liu. In the Western Han Dynasty, Liu An, King of Huainan, organized thousands of people to compile Huainanzi. Liu Xiang, Liu Xin and his son, scholars, bibliographers, writers, the father of China Bibliography, exegetist Liu Xi. Liu Desheng, calligrapher of the Eastern Han Dynasty; In the Three Kingdoms, Wei had a philosopher Liu Shao; There was a mathematician Liu Hui in Wei and Jin Dynasties; Liu Kun, a general and poet in the Western Jin Dynasty, and Liu Ling, one of the "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest"; Liu Laozhi, a brave general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty; Liu was a scholar and literary critic in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. His book is Wen Xin Diao Long, and Liu Jun is a scholar and writer. In the Sui Dynasty, there were Confucian classics masters Liu Xuan and Liu Zhuo, and peasant uprising leader Liu Yuanjin. Ada, a financial planner in the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zhiji, a historian, Liu Yuxi, a writer and philosopher, Liu Changqing, a poet, and Liu Pi, an essayist; Northern Song Dynasty historian Liu Shu; There were poets Liu Guo and painters Liu Songnian in the Southern Song Dynasty. Liu Ying, a state-owned writer in Jin Dynasty; Liu Yin, a scholar in Yuan Dynasty, and Liu Futong, leader of the Red Scarf Army; In Ming and Qing Dynasties, many people represented by Wei Liu rose up against feudal oppression, such as Liu Tong, Liu Qi, etc. In addition, there are painter Liu Yu, poet Liu Tiren and novelist Liu E. Modern poets include Liu Dabai, Liu Bannong, a writer and linguist, Liu Zhidan, a proletarian revolutionary in China, Liu Hulan, a Communist party member, etc. Liu is the fourth surname in China, accounting for about 5.4% of the Han population, exceeding 60 million.

The population of Liu in contemporary Chinese mainland is about 64.56 million, accounting for 5.4% of the total population in China.

As the saying goes, Li Zhao and Liu are everywhere. The surname Liu is indeed widely distributed, but the distribution ratio is uneven. The distribution of Liu surname in China today is mainly concentrated in the north and the Central Plains. Judging from the distribution of the absolute population of Liu in China, it is concentrated in Sichuan, Henan, Shandong and Hebei provinces, accounting for 36% of the total population of Liu in China. Among them, Henan and Sichuan are tied with Liu as the largest provinces, accounting for 6% and 5.5% of the total population of the province respectively. Secondly, it is distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Anhui. The population of Liu in these five provinces accounts for 26% of the total population of Liu in China.

In this way, Liu's surname has formed four major population gathering areas in North China, Sichuan, Central China and Northeast China.

Distribution of Liu surname: only roughly.

Judging from the proportion of Liu's population to local surnames, it is also high in the north and low in the south. In most areas of Liaojihei, eastern Inner Mongolia, Hebei, northwestern Shandong and Kahui area in Xinjiang, Liu's surname generally accounts for more than 7% of the local population, and its coverage area accounts for 12. 1% of the total land area. In a large number of north and south areas east of Qinghai and west of Zhejiang, the distribution frequency of Liu's surname is between 4.2% and 7%, and its coverage area accounts for 38.6% of the total land area; In Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, most of Fujian, Taiwan Province, central Guangdong, southern Hainan, southwestern Yunnan, western Sichuan, eastern Qinghai and western Xinjiang, the distribution frequency of Liu's surname is 1.4-4.2%, and its coverage area accounts for 2 1.5% of the total land area. The distribution frequency of Liu surname in other areas is less than 1.4%, and its coverage area accounts for 27.8% of the total land area.

According to Yuan Yida and others' research, the consanguineous inheritance of the Liu people shows the following characteristics: the population of the Liu family is mainly O-type blood, about 20.39 million, accounting for 31.6% of the Liu population; Followed by type B, with 6,543,809,630 people, accounting for 30.4% of Liu's total population; Type A again, with 6.5438+0.835 million people, accounting for 28.4% of the total population of Liu; Type AB is only 6 1.9 million, accounting for 9.6%.