The origin and celebrities of the surname Qie

There are three main sources of the surname Qie: 1. It is derived from the name of the city. According to records, the Jin Dynasty official Qie Xian’s son settled in Qie, and his descendants took Qie as their surname. 2. Derived from the surname Ji. According to records, Qie and Que were originally the same surname. The common word for Qie was Que, which was a town in the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period. Its hometown was in the lower reaches of Qinshui River in Shanxi Province today. Since the Jin Dynasty Dafu Wen, his family has regarded it as a fief for generations, so they named it after the town. But as a surname. But it was pronounced as (Xi), and later it was commonly written as Qie, with the pronunciation of Qie (Xi). Later, Qie and Que were divided into two surnames, with Qie pronounced as (qie) and Que as still pronounced as (xi). 3. Derived from the surname Su. During the reign of King Wu of Zhou Dynasty, minister Angsheng belonged to the royal family. Because he was granted the title of Su, he was called Su Angsheng. Su Ansheng once held the post of Chief of Police, solving prison cases, and after observing every detail, the World Honored him as the God of Prisons. His son was granted the title of Qie Bo. The hometown of Qie is in Hecun, Qinyang City, Henan Province today. His descendants took the name of the feudal land as Qie as their surname.

In the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of the Qie family immigrated to Hongdong with big locust trees and moved to other places in large numbers, namely: Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanxi and other places.

Historical celebrities with the surname Qie include Qie Liu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, who was employed by Zheng Kangcheng, a Confucian scholar, and served as a minister. In the Jin Dynasty, there was Qie Jian, who served as the governor of Xuzhou and other positions.