Where is Yi from?

Yi surname originated from the You family in ancient times. Wanghai, the seventh generation of Shang Dynasty, was killed for indulging in pleasure and lived in the You tribe. His son Wei Jia killed Mianchen, the king of Youyi. You fled back to the ancient Yishui area and later renamed Xianyu. Known as Bai Di in the Spring and Autumn Period, Yishui is still its headquarters, and some of them have moved to Yongzhou. Like Sidi and Chang Di, they fought with different countries in the summer. The fat countries, drum countries and countries established near Yishui were all destroyed by gold, and finally only the fresh risks of the headquarters continued. Yiya, the originator of the catering industry in China, comes from the Bai Di tribe in Yongdi. As a spy, he went to defend the country, and the Bai Di tribe destroyed the country from the outside. From then on, Yiya broke away from the Qi State at that time and became the favorite of the overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period, which influenced the German policy. After Qi Huangong's death, Yiya supported the eldest son for establishing the pro-Di regime, but led the army to "cut off the funeral" and the Di family rushed to save Qi. After Wu's death, the Dickens once again supported the Gongzi Association, but it ended in failure. Before 774 BC, the county of Bai Di had a considerable scale. Before 506 BC, it was renamed Zhongshan State, with its capital in Renzhong (now Sushan, Tangxian County, Hebei Province) and its capital in Zhongshan State. At the beginning of the Warring States, the State of Jin destroyed Zhongshan, but it did not die. In 4 14 BC, Zhongshan's martial arts revived and moved its capital to Gu (now Dingzhou City, Hebei Province). In 406 BC, Wei destroyed Zhongshan. Around 380 BC, Duke Huan of Zhongshan revived the country and moved the capital to Lingshou (now northeast of Pingshan County, Hebei Province). The Great Wall was built in 369 BC to defend the State of Zhao. In 342 BC, the monarch of Zhongshan came to Wei Rencheng. Combined with the genealogy analysis of Yi nationality, the monarch of Zhongshan was Gong Kai, the ancestor of Yi nationality in Hunan, Hubei and China. Since then, its national strength has reached its peak. In 323 BC, it became the eighth largest power after the Seven Heroes, alongside Zhao, Han, Wei and Yan. In the first 299 years, the Zhao army attacked Zhongshan, and the king of Zhongshan fled to a friendly country, Qi, and died in Qi. Wang Zhao supported Wang Shang as the king of Zhongshan. The king of Zhongshan still misused two ministers, which led the king of Zhao to send troops to attack Zhongshan in 296. It took 478 years from the first appearance of the state of Xian Yu recorded in historical records to the destruction of Zhongshan by Zhao. In 296, Zhao moved the last king of Zhongshan to Pumice (now northwest of Mizhi, Shaanxi Province) and died a year later. According to the "Warring States Policy", it is vaguely recorded that King Zhongshan first fled to Qi as a minister and was later supported by Qin. Therefore, in the end, Wang Shang of Zhongshan and Gan Pu gave the same account of Shang Gong, the ancestor of Yi family in Taiyuan. They fled to Qi State and were moved to Taiyuan by Qin State. In Qin and Han Dynasties, Yi moved from Taiyuan to the south. In 222, Wan Gong moved from Jiangsu to Liuyang, Hunan. In the great cause of Sui Dynasty, Yi Gong's descendants moved from Liuyang to Jiangxi. After several generations, they moved to Hunan, Jiangxi and Hubei. Now Yi is a direct descendant of Zhongshan royal family. Di, all from the Yellow Emperor, was originally named "Ji", and so was Wang Zhongshan.

The ancestor of the surname Zhongshan Wang Shanggong.

Surname distribution

Yi's birthplace is mainly Hebei and Shandong. The early situation of the Yi family lacked historical materials, and there were some sporadic records until the Three Kingdoms period: in the Three Kingdoms period, there was a history of Yongzheng in Wei County; In the Western Jin Dynasty, a mausoleum made Xiong Yi a Liuyang native. Before the cool, there was General Yi Li; In the Tang Dynasty, it was easy for Dali to value things and settle down in the local area. It can be seen that the three kingdoms of Yi have been distributed in some places in Hebei, Hunan, Gansu and Jiangxi since the Tang Dynasty. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been more and more Yi surnames in history books. Yi Yuanji, a painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, was born in Changsha. Song Taizong has Cheng Dali Yi Yanqing; Yi Bingwen was born in Xiangyang in Yuan Dynasty. It can be seen that Shanxi, Guangdong, Shandong, Hubei and other places in the Song and Yuan Dynasties also had the distribution of Yi surnames. In the Ming Dynasty, there were Yi Jie, ten thousand people, and Yongle Jinshi; Scholar Yi Yizhi, Teng Yueren; Yi, a native of Guilin, is the official of Chongyang; Yi Shizhong, a native of Jinjiang. This shows that the Ming Dynasty was easy to migrate to Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Fujian and other places.

From Qing Dynasty to modern times, the Yi family mainly developed and multiplied in Jiangnan. There are overseas Chinese surnamed Yi in Singapore.

Migration and distribution of surname changes in history

There was a lack of information on surname change activities in the pre-Qin period, and there was no record of surname change until the Three Kingdoms period. Hebei is the main activity area in the early period of changing surname. By the time of the Western Jin Dynasty, there were traces of Yi in Hunan and Gansu. In the Tang Dynasty, Yi immigrated to Jiangxi. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Shanxi, Shandong, Guangdong, Hubei and other regions also appeared. At the latest in the Ming Dynasty, the Yi surname entered the southwest and Fujian.

During the Song Dynasty, there were about 60,000 Yi surnames, accounting for 0.08% of the national population, ranking behind the150th surname in the Song Dynasty. The largest province with easy surname is Hunan, accounting for about 59% of the country's total population. The distribution of Yi surname in China is mainly concentrated in Hunan, Jiangxi and Shandong provinces, and two large gathering places of Yi surname have been formed in China, with Hunan, Jiangxi in the south and Shandong in the north as the center.

During the Ming Dynasty, the surname Yi was about 1.7 million, accounting for 0. 1.9% of the national population, and it was the 95th most popular surname in the Ming Dynasty. The distribution of Yi surname in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan provinces, accounting for about 80% of the total population of Yi surname, followed by Sichuan, Jiangsu, Henan and other provinces. Jiangxi is the largest province with easy surnames. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the Yi population mainly migrated to the southeast, south and west. A cluster of Yi surnames centered on the provinces in the Yangtze River valley has basically formed in China.

The distribution and atlas of the contemporary Yi surname

The population with changed surnames has reached more than 6.5438+0.7 million, ranking 106 in China, accounting for about 0.654.38+0.4% of the national population. At present, it is mainly concentrated in Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei and Chongqing, accounting for about 76% of the total population of the Yi people, followed by Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guizhou and Henan, accounting for about 15%. Hunan is the largest province with a changed surname, accounting for 24% of the total population. The whole country has formed the Yi surname gathering area in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of the Yi people in the population shows that in Hunan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Hubei, most of Jiangxi, northern Guangdong and Guangxi, most of Sichuan, northern Yunnan, western Gansu and eastern Heiji, the proportion of the Yi people in the local population is generally above 0.3%, and the central region is above 0.9%, accounting for about 17.7% of the total land area, accounting for about 66%. In southern Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, western Fujian, northeastern Jiangxi, most of Anhui, southern Henan, northwestern Hubei, southern Shaanxi and Gansu, eastern Qinghai, northwestern Sichuan, southeastern Yunnan and eastern Heiji, the proportion of Yi surnames in the local population is generally between 0. 1%-0.3%, and its coverage area accounts for about 2/kloc-of the total land area.