The origin of the surname Kang and how to choose a name that means cleverness

The origin of the surname Kang

1. There are three sources.

1. Comes from the surname Ji.

After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he granted his mother and brother the title of Kang Shu. During the reign of King Cheng of Zhou Dynasty, he was transferred to the Wei Dynasty and was known as Wei Kangshu in history. The Wei State was first built on the outskirts of Chaoge City, the capital of the Shang Dynasty, in the northeast of present-day Qi County, Henan Province. It later moved the capital three times, moving eastwards to Cao, Chuqiu, and Diqiu, all between Huaxian and Puyang in northern Henan. The descendants who lived in Gukang took the country as their surname. Also, Uncle Kang's son Wangsun Mou was given the posthumous name Kang Bo, and his descendants took Kang as their surname. This Ji surname Kang has a history of at least 3100 years.

2. Comes from the surname Ji.

During the reign of King Qing of Zhou Dynasty in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, his son was granted the title of Prince Jizi in Liu City, the ancient fiefdom of Liu Lei. He was called Liu Kanggong in history and was followed by the Liu family. Wang Jizi is the younger brother of King Zhou Ding, and his descendants have posthumous surnames. The Ji surname Kang has a history of 2,600 years.

3. Change of surname from foreigners.

Our country’s Kang surname, like other surnames, continues to communicate with other ethnic groups, and there is a flow of genes from each other. Historically, foreigners changing their surname to Kang had already started in the Han Dynasty. During the Western Han Dynasty, the Kangju people from the Western Regions entered China and were surnamed Kang. In the Tang Dynasty, they were called Kang Kingdom. For more than 1,000 years, people with the Kang surname from the Western Regions, including those from the Turkic ethnic group, have continuously immigrated to the northwest and Sichuan areas through the Hexi Corridor, and then entered the Central Plains, eventually integrating into the Han people. This is the most important event in the integration of the Kang surname and foreign ethnic groups.

2. Migration distribution and gathering places

During the pre-Qin period, people with the Kang surname were mainly active in Henan. During the Han Dynasty, people with the Kang surname from the Kangju country in the Western Regions first settled in the Yellow River in Gansu and Qinghai. To the west, they then entered Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and northwest Sichuan, soon moved south to Hubei, and migrated to Anhui and Zhejiang from the southeast. At the same time, the Kang family in Henan advanced northward into Hebei and Shanxi, and moved eastward into Shandong and Jiangsu. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Kang surname had basically been distributed throughout the country. Entered Taiwan in the early Qing Dynasty.

During the Song Dynasty, there were nearly 150,000 people with the Kang surname, accounting for approximately 0.19% of the country's population, ranking 85th. Henan is the largest province with Kang surname, accounting for about 26.8% of the total population of Kang surname in the country and 0.5% of the total population of Henan. The distribution in the country is mainly concentrated in Henan, Shaanxi, Hebei, Shanxi, and Anhui. These five provinces account for 70% of the total population with the Kang surname, followed by Hubei and Hunan, where another 16% of the Kang surname is concentrated. Kang surnames are mainly distributed in the area north of the Yangtze River, forming a distribution pattern centered on Henan in the Central Plains.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were approximately 160,000 people with the surname Kang, accounting for approximately 0.17% of the country's population, ranking 99th. In the 600 years of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the net population growth rate of the country was 20%, and the population with the Kang surname barely increased, which was lower than the national population growth rate. Shaanxi is the province with the largest number of Kang surnames, accounting for approximately 36.8% of the total Kang surname population. The distribution is mainly concentrated in Shaanxi and Shanxi, which account for about 50% of the total population with the surname Kang. Secondly, they are distributed in Fujian, Shandong, Anhui, Hebei and Jiangxi. In these five provinces, 35% of the Kang surnames were concentrated. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties for more than 600 years, the general distribution pattern of the Kang surname changed greatly, and its population mainly moved to the northwest and northwest. Migration to the Southeast. The whole country re-formed a gathering area with the Kang surname centered on Qin and Jin Dynasties.

3. Junwangtang No.

Hall name Kuaijitang: In the Tang Dynasty, there was Kang Zhimu, a tall man, good at horseback riding and archery, and a high-ranking general. Later, Zhang Shao was pacified, Lu Jiedushi was promoted to pacify, and Li Tongjie's rebellion was quelled. The surname Kang was named after Kuaiji. The Kang family also took Jingzhao as their hall name.

County Hope

Jingzhao County: During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the right internal history was changed to Jingzhao Yin, which was the head of the three assistants. The administrative seat was Chang'an (now north of Xi'an, Shaanxi). The name of the county was established during the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms.

Dongping County: During the Han Dynasty, Dahe County was renamed Dongping Kingdom, and its administrative location was Wuyan (now Dongpingdong, Shandong Province). It was changed to a county in the Southern Dynasty and Song Dynasty.

Kuaiji County: The county was established during the time of Emperor Qin Shihuang, and its administrative location was Wuxian County (now Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province). During the reign of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, it was moved to Shanyin (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province).

4. Blood type of people with the surname Kang

The overall blood type distribution of people with the surname Kang is: type O accounts for 33%, type A accounts for 28.8%, type B accounts for 29.1%, and type AB accounts for 33%. 9.1%.

5. Distribution of the contemporary Kang surname %. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population surnamed Kang has surged from 160,000 to 3.36 million, a rate of 21 times. The growth rate of the population surnamed Kang is higher than the growth rate of the national population. The growth rate of the population surnamed Kang in the 1,000 years since the Song Dynasty has been V-shaped posture. The distribution in the country is mainly concentrated in the four provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Anhui, and Gansu, accounting for about 40% of the total population with the surname Kang. Secondly, it is distributed in Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Hubei, and Beijing. These seven provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities Another 37% concentration. Sichuan is home to 11% of the total population with Kang surname, making it the largest province with Kang surname. There are two clusters of Kang surnames in the country, centered on Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu in the west and Hebei, Shanxi and Henan in the north.

During these 600 years, the degree and direction of population flow with the Kang surname were greatly different from those during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. The main flow was from the northwest to Sichuan and the southeast.

The surname Kang is widely distributed, but unevenly. The surname Kang is a relatively common surname in the northwest region. In most of Sichuan and Gansu, Shaanxi and Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, most of Shanxi, northeast and central Inner Mongolia, western Hebei, Beijing, northwest Hubei, and western Heilongjiang, the surname Kang generally accounts for the highest proportion of the local population, above 0.36%, and can be found in central areas. Reaching more than 1.7%, the area covered by the above areas accounts for about 23.4% of the country's total area, and about 30% of the people with the Kang surname live in this area. In western Gansu, western and eastern Inner Mongolia,

central Heilongjiang, Liaoji, most of Hebei and Shandong, Tianjin, Henan, southeastern Shanxi, most of Shandong and Anhui, the northwest corner of Jiangsu, most of Hubei, Jiangxi and Hunan, and Chongqing , eastern Sichuan, western Guizhou, northern Yunnan, and northwest Fujian. The proportion of the local population surnamed Kang generally ranges from 0.18% to 0.36%. Its coverage area accounts for about 28% of the country's total area. About 51% of the people live in this area. People with the surname Kang.