Is Ouyang an aristocrat?

Ouyang surname, one of China surnames, is the first of China surnames. Ouyang's surname can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty. Ouyang's surname comes from the surname of the company, and Xia Guojun Xian Shaokang named his illegitimate son Yu Ji. When the King of Yue was unbounded, it was destroyed by Chu, and the unbounded hoof was sealed in Shanyang, Ouyu, Wucheng (the ancients called it in Shannan), and it was named Ouyang, so his son and grandson took "Ouyang" as their surname.

The important figures of Ouyang surname in history are: Ouyang Yao, king of the Eastern Yue Dynasty, and Ouyang Sheng, a doctor of the Western Han Dynasty; Ouyang Juan, the satrap of Runan in the Eastern Han Dynasty; Tang Dynasty calligrapher Ou Yangxun; After the Five Dynasties, Shu Hanlin Ouyang Jiong, Shangshu Zuo Cheng, General Ning made our efforts to Ouyang Bin and Dr. Ouyang Zhan; Ouyang Xiu, a writer and historian in the Northern Song Dynasty; Ou Yangxun, the great president of Yuan Dynasty who revised the history of Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties; Ouyang Zhong was the right capital of Ming Dynasty.

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In the pre-Qin period, Ouyang mainly lived in Zhejiang. Entering the Qin and Han Dynasties, Ouyang's surname is Jiangsu, Shandong and Hebei in the north, Jiangxi in the west and Fujian in the south. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Ouyang went to Shaanxi and Sichuan in the west and Hunan in the south. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were two large-scale immigrants from the Central Plains, and Ouyang entered Hunan, Fujian and Guangdong in large numbers.

In the Song Dynasty, there were more than 220,000 people surnamed Ouyang, accounting for 0.29% of the national population, ranking 69th, and being one of the hundred surnames. The province with the largest number of Ouyang surnames is Jiangxi, accounting for about 52% of the total population of Ouyang surnames in China.

The distribution of Ouyang surname in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei provinces, accounting for about 83% of the total population of Ouyang surname. Secondly, it is distributed in Guangxi, Gansu, Fujian and Guangdong. The distribution area of Ouyang surname centered on Jiangxi and Hunan has basically formed in the whole country.