What is the population of the Dai people?

By the end of 20 19, the Dai nationality had a population of nearly 4.7 million, making it the 54th most popular surname in China, accounting for about 0.39% of the national population. Since the Song Dynasty, the growth rate of Dai population has been on the rise during the period of 1000.

The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Anhui, Hubei and Jiangsu provinces, accounting for about 34% of the total population of the Dai people, followed by Hunan, Sichuan, Guangdong, Chongqing, Zhejiang and Guizhou, which account for 36% of the total population of the Dai people. Anhui is the home of 12% of the total population of the Dai people and the largest province of the Dai people.

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First, the surname is Zu

In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, after the Wu Geng Rebellion was put down, Zhou Gongdan established Wei Zi, the younger brother of Di Xin, the last king of Shang Dynasty, as the old capital of Shang Dynasty, and established the Song State with Shangqiu as its capital. After the death of the first 1 1 monarch in the Song Dynasty (reigned from 799 BC to 766 BC), he was called "Duke of the Song Dynasty", and the illegitimate child took his father posthumous title as his surname and called him Dai. Gong was the ancestor of Dai in Song Dynasty.

Second, migration and evolution.

Dai is a multi-ethnic and multi-source surname, ranking 54th in the current surname list, belonging to the big surname series, with a population of about 4.492 million, accounting for about 0.33% of the total population in China.

During the pre-Qin period, Dai was an official of the Song State and was active in Shangqiu area in eastern Henan. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Dai Dong moved to Anhui, Shandong and Jiangsu. During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Dai people were widely distributed in the Yangtze River Delta and spread westward to Hubei and other places. During the Tang Dynasty, Dai people lived in communities in North China, Northwest China and Sichuan. During several waves of the Central Plains' southward migration, Dai entered Fujian, Guangdong and other regions, and entered Taiwan Province Province in the early Qing Dynasty.

The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang and Jiangxi, and the Dai people account for 47% of the total population, followed by Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Hubei provinces. The whole country spread westward and northward with Zhejiang as the center, forming a population gathering area of Dai surname connecting Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Henan and Shandong provinces.

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