Genealogy of Ni surname: Chongfang Town, Tancheng, Linyi, located at the junction of Shandong Province and Jiangsu Province. I am a native of Ni Village, with the surname Wei. What I know now

1. Origin of the surname

The surname Ni (Ní) has three origins:

1. It comes from the surname Ji, after the second son of Zhu Wugong, a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. The surname was named after the country (changed from Li to Ni). According to "Tongzhi Clan Briefing", "Surname Research" and "Ciyuan", during the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhu Wu Gong sealed his second son in Li (the old city is in today's Tengzhou, Shandong Province) and established the Li Kingdom. Zhu State is a vassal. The descendants took the country's surname and were called the Li family. During the Warring States Period, the state of Li was destroyed by the state of Chu. After the fall of the country, in order to avoid revenge, the surname was changed to the son's surname. Later, the original surname was changed from "阝" to "廻" next to the original surname "Ni". In the early Han Dynasty, there was Ni Kuan, the censor, who was a descendant of Gongzi Fei.

2. It comes from the Spring and Autumn Period, when Pi Li, a descendant of the Zhu State, changed his name to the Ni family to avoid his enemies. According to "Shang You Lu", in the Spring and Autumn Period, after the arrival of Li Li in Zhu State, other clans were named Ni.

3. It comes from another clan who changed their surname:

① According to "Wei Shu·Guan Shi Zhi" (the same below), in the later Wei Dynasty, the surname He Li in the north was changed to Li. The surname was later changed to Ni.

② The Eight Banners of Manchuria in the Qing Dynasty had the surname Ni and lived in Ninggu Pagoda for generations.

③ Today, Manchu, Mongolian, Tujia and other ethnic groups all have the surname Ni.

The ancestor who got the surname: Ni Kuan. A native of Qiancheng County (equivalent to the current Gaoqing County of Shandong Province), a minister of the Western Han Dynasty and a water conservancy expert. He served as a minister, and served successively as the censor, Zhongdafu, Zuo Neishi, etc., and later served as the censor. During his tenure, he attached great importance to water conservancy construction, mobilized migrant workers, and opened six auxiliary canals on the south bank of the upper reaches of the Zhengguo Canal to irrigate the surrounding highlands. He has outstanding political achievements and is supported by the people. Kuan is a descendant of Zhuanxu. During the reign of King Wu of Zhou, the descendants of Zhuanxu were granted the title of Zhu. When it was passed down to Yi's father, Yan, because of his contribution to the emperor of Zhou, he made his second son You (some say Fei) a vassal and lived in Li. Because Li was a vassal of Zhu, he also It was called Xiaozhu State. He had fought against the barbarians from Duke Huan of Qi many times, so he was glorious for a while. During the Warring States Period, the State of Li was destroyed by the State of Chu, and their descendants took the country as their surname. Later, to avoid hatred, the surname "阝" was removed to form the son's surname, and later "廻" was added to form the surname Ni. Because there are different opinions on who the Li Kingdom was first granted, and there is no consensus, but his descendant Ni Kuan is famous in the annals of history, so later generations of the Ni surname respected Ni Kuan as the ancestor of the Ni surname.