The origin, historical celebrities and current situation of Zhou surname

Zhou's surname originated from Weihe Plain in Shaanxi Province. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, as the capital moved from Shaanxi to Henan, the surname of Zhou also moved from west to east. After Pingdong moved to Luoyang, Zhou greatly multiplied and became a giant family.

[It turns out that Zhou is mainly centered on Henan and Shaanxi. Qin destroyed the six countries, and after the war at the end of Qin Dynasty, Zhou moved to southern Henan and northern Jiangsu and became a famous family. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zhou moved south with the gentry of the Central Plains.

In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, warlords scuffled, especially in the late Northern Song Dynasty and the late Southern Song Dynasty, Mongolian soldiers went south, and a large number of Zhou surnames from Henan, Shandong and other central plains moved south, mainly to Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Ji 'an Prefecture in Jiangxi Province immigrated to Shaoyang, Hunan Province. Since Ming and Qing Dynasties, the provinces with relatively concentrated Zhou surnames are Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces.

According to the National Surnames Report 2020 issued by the Ministry of Public Security, Zhou ranked 10 among the "100 surnames" ranked by the registered population in 2020.