Renxing birthplace

Ren's surname is Taiti, and it comes from the fief of Taiti (Fuxi), which belongs to Rencheng. Ren is responsible for offering sacrifices to Taiti and saving water. He is proficient in Fuxi gossip, astronomical calendar and river sacrifice, and is good at harps and harps.

A Brief History of the Clans records that in the early Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Chengwang searched for the descendants of the ancient emperor Taiti (Tai Hao) and divided them into Ren (now Rencheng, Jining), Su (now Dongping, Shandong), Xu Yi (now Jining) and Zhu Xi.

Later, in the late Spring and Autumn Period, Ji Sun, the senior minister of the State of Lu, wanted to crusade against the vassal state, and was also ridiculed by Confucius as "a ruin". During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the small and weak Ren State was adept in the big vassal states such as Lu, Song, Qi, etc. Until the end of the Warring States Period, there was still a tenacious existence among the seven heroes. After Qin Shihuang unified China, Fang deposed Ren Guo and set Ren Cheng County.

Migration and distribution

In the pre-Qin period, Ren's surname mainly lived in Chongqing, Shandong, Henan and Hubei. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Ren's surname had spread to Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. During the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, Ren surname was more widely distributed, but its main body was still in the north and the Central Plains. In the Song Dynasty, the surname had emigrated to Fujian. In the early Qing Dynasty, Ren entered Taiwan Province.

The current population with any surname has reached 4.2 million, making it the 58th surname in China, accounting for about .35% of the national population. From the 6 years of the Ming Dynasty, the population of Ren surname increased from 31, to more than 4.2 million, an increase of about 13 times, and the growth rate of Ren surname population was basically the same as that of the whole country.

what are the above references? Baidu Encyclopedia-Ren surname