How do you pronounce the yin in your surname?

Yin is the 9th1surname in China, accounting for 0. 19% of the total population in China. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Yin surname migrated in large numbers and was widely distributed in the south of China. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the Yin family migrated from Zaolinzhuang, Shandong Province to Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu and other places. During the Hongwu and Yongle periods of the Ming Dynasty, the Yin family moved from Shanxi Sophora japonica and Jiangxi Wayao to sparsely populated Henan, Hebei and Tianjin. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huguang immigrants entered Sichuan, and people with Yin surnames crossed the sea and entered Taiwan. Today, most Yin surnames are in Shandong, Anhui, Hunan, Sichuan (including Chongqing) and other provinces. There are about 2.28 million members of Yin clan in China, and Shandong is the largest province of Yin clan, accounting for 12% of the total population.

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