What is the origin and history of the surname Jia?

1. Derived from the surname Ji, he is a descendant of Tang Shuyu. After the youngest son Gongming (namely Jiabo Gongming) of Tang Shuyu, the younger brother of King Cheng of Zhou Dynasty, he was named after the country. It comes from the fief of Hu Shegu, the son of Hu Yan, a famous figure in the Spring and Autumn Period. It is a surname based on the name of the fief.

2. Derived from the surname Zi, it comes from Jia State in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties, and is a surname named after the country.

Regarding the situation of the ancient Jia State, there is only this record in history: During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, there was the Jia State in what is now Jia Township, Shanxi Province. Judging from the fact that the Zhou clan became one of the four major princes in China at the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and was able to attack the Yin and Shang Dynasties in one fell swoop, the Zhou Dynasty was able to attack the Yin and Shang Dynasties in one fell swoop. The ancient Jia Kingdom carried out a series of war measures to destroy the Shang Dynasty when King Wu Jifa of Zhou Dynasty The former has disappeared, or has surrendered to King Wu of Zhou.

3. Originated from the official position. It comes from Jia Zheng, an official in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It is a surname based on the official title.

4. Originating from Mongolian and other northern and western ethnic minorities, it is a culturally Sinicized change of surname to surname.

5. It originated from the Manchu people and is a Chinese surname. Originating from the surname changes of various ethnic groups, it is a cultural Chinese surname change.

Extended information:

In the pre-Qin period, the Jia surname was active in Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, and Shandong. During the Han Dynasty, due to frequent wars in the Central Plains, the Jia family traveled west to Shaanxi and Gansu and north to Hebei. During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, people with the Jia surname were already common in North China, and one of them crossed the Yangtze River and entered Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and other places. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, people surnamed Jia immigrated to Sichuan and Fujian.

During the Song Dynasty, there were about 390,000 people with the surname Jia, accounting for about 0.51% of the country's population, ranking 40th. The province with the largest number of people with the surname Jia is Hebei, accounting for about 43% of the total population with the surname Jia in the country. The distribution in the country is mainly concentrated in Hebei, Sichuan1 and Henan. These three provinces account for about 67% of the total population of Jia surname, followed by Shandong, Zhejiang, Shaanxi and Shanxi. The Jia surname in these four provinces is concentrated in 24%. %. Hebei, Henan, Shandong and Sichuan are two areas where people with the Jia surname gather.