The present situation of Xue surname

The present situation of Xue surname is that it has been widely distributed all over the country.

Among hundreds of surnames, Xue is ranked 68th. At present, the Xue clan has been promulgated in cities and rural areas all over the country, but it is mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Fujian and other provinces. Xue surname is a surname of China. Xi Zhong, the ancestor, got his surname because of the enfeoffment of Xue State, and took the feudal city as his surname. Xi Zhong, the twelfth grandson of Yuyang, the son of the Yellow Emperor, is the ancestor, and some descendants take the country name as their surname.

During the pre-Qin period, Xue lived mainly in Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other places. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Xue's surname spread from south to north, from north to Shanxi, from west to Sichuan, from east to East China Sea and from south to Yangtze River. During the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, Xue's surname crossed the Yangtze River, entered Jiangxi, entered Zhejiang and arrived in Tianshui, Gansu in the northwest. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Xue family led by Gushi people entered Fujian via Jiangxi, and at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Gushi people Wang entered Fujian. The Xue family moved south for the second time, mainly from Henan to Fujian, and then immigrated to Guangdong.

Genealogy of Xue surname

Although Xue has a long history and pedigree, due to various historical reasons, it is impossible to verify when his genealogy was compiled. However, judging from the deeds of the Xue Andou family in the Northern Dynasties, it was not later than the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which was related to the prevailing genealogy at that time.

At present, the earliest preserved genealogy of Xue's family is Yuan He's Genealogy compiled by the historian of surname in Tang Dynasty, which records the surnames before the middle Tang Dynasty in great detail. At present, most of the genealogy preserved is the genealogy of the revision period popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Most of these genealogies have fixed styles and formats, including clan names, genealogical sequence, general rules, genealogy theory, portraits, records of favors, Kao Zu, family rules, gallery, five-service map, lineage, biography, clan property, deeds, tombs, genealogy, continuation genealogy, genealogy and so on.