The origin and history of Zheng surname

Zheng surname is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-source surname, which mainly comes from Zi surname, Jiang surname, Ji surname and the change of minority surnames. The Zhou Dynasty was the ancestor of Zheng. ?

Zheng ranked seventh in the Song version of Hundred Family Names. By 2006, according to a recent research funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Zheng was the second1surname (the first 12 surname in Taiwan Province Province). The population of Zheng Zai is about 9.36 million, accounting for 0.78% of the total population.

Origin ancestor

Main source and flow direction

1, derived from Ji's surname, takes the country name as the surname. From the fief of his brother, Zheng's ancestors were. ? In 375 BC, Zheng was destroyed by South Korea. After the demise of Zheng State, it was scattered in Beijing (now Jingxiangcheng, Xingyang, Henan Province), Zhi (now west of Xingyang, Henan Province), Ji (now east of Zhengzhou, Henan Province), Chen (now Huaiyang, Henan Province) and Song (now Shangqiu, Henan Province). To commemorate the old country, the people of Zheng changed their surnames one after another, and the surname Zheng was born.

2. From the surname. Ding's son, after the Shang Dynasty, was also called the queen of the temple, named after the wine used to hold commemorative ceremonies. This is a country in the Shang Dynasty. BC 1046, Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, and so did his son. Zhou moved his son Zheng Ren to the upper reaches of Weihe River, near Baoji, Shaanxi.

3, from Jiang surname. Since Jiang Taigong. After the demise of the Zhou Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty sealed its youngest son, Jing Shu, as Zheng, and ruled the son surnamed Zheng. History said that the old city was in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province. Jiandu, Jiang surnamed Zheng Wu. The surname of China people is Jing, or Zheng Jing, that is, Zheng.

4. Originated from place names, with Juyi as the surname. Out of Nanzheng, a city that praised the vassal state since ancient times. After the destruction of Zheng, the royal family and citizens of Zheng fled to Hanzhong, Shaanxi, and established a small country in the name of the old country, known as Nanzheng in history, and named Zheng after the old country.

5, from the change of surname:

① Koreans changed their surnames to Zheng: During the reign of Park Ru-li, the third king of Silla on the Korean peninsula, they began to imitate the Han system and granted their surnames to Zhen Zhi.

(2) The Mongols changed their surnames to Zheng: they took the surname given by the emperor as their surname. Mongolian Borijit lives in Harqin (now Harqin Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia). After the middle of Qing Dynasty, the surnames of Han nationality were mostly Zheng, Bao, Li and Ji. The Mongolian is Nelut, who lives in Chahar (now Zhangjiakou, Hebei). After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Han people changed their surname to Zheng.

③ Yugur changed its surname to Zheng: Yugur Zeng Sien, formerly known as Zeng Sien and Zeng Keshi. Because the surname was too complicated, it was later simplified to Zheng.

④ Hani people changed their surnames to Zheng: In the early years of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty, Bobby Chen, the magistrate, gave the eight surnames of "Qiansun, Zheng Wang of Wu Zhou" in the first two sentences of Hundred Surnames to the local toast, and the Hani people had Zheng from then on. Later, influenced by China culture, some Hani people added the Chinese character "Zheng" to their names and became new members of the Zheng family of Hani people.

⑤ Manchu changed its surname to Zheng: Manchu, also known as Jirichi, once lived in (now Sakhalin Island, Russia), Changbai Mountain, Zhanni River (now a tributary of Yehe River in Lishu, Jilin) and other places. Later, the Han surname was Zheng; Zheng Jiashi, originally from the Han nationality, was taken by the Wuhuan Department of Xianbei in Liaodong at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then gradually merged into Xianbei, and gradually evolved into a jurchen living in Shenyang in Liaodong. After the middle of Qing Dynasty, the Han surname was Zheng. Bilu, also known as Bilu and Bilu, once lived in Yehe (now Yehe Township, Lishu, Jilin Province), Wula (now Yongji, Jilin Province), Zhakumu (now the west bank of the Eldon River in Xinbin, Liaoning Province), along the Heilongjiang River and other places. The last multi-crowned Chinese surname was Zheng.

Get a surname ancestor

Zheng Huangong (? -77 1 years ago), the founder of the state of Zheng in the Western Zhou Dynasty, surnamed Ji, the younger brother. When Zhou Youwang was in power, Zheng Huangong had a premonition that the Western Zhou Dynasty was about to perish and followed his advice. In the ninth year (773 BC), the tribe and its family moved eastward to the east of Luoyi and established a new country, Zheng (whose capital is now Xinzheng, Henan). Dog Rong was killed when he attacked the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the pre-Qin period, men called their surnames, women called their surnames, and princes took the country as their surnames, so they were considered the ancestors of Zheng's surname.

Migration and communication

Zheng migration map

In the pre-Qin period, Zheng was mainly distributed in Shaanxi, Henan and Shandong. Among them, Shandong Zheng's ancestral home (now Philadelphia) is the descendant of the former Zheng's stationed personnel.

During the Warring States period, it began to enter Sichuan, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei and other places.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the northern part of China was in turmoil for many times, and the southern part was relatively stable, which led to the migration of the population of the Central Plains to the south. In the first year of Jin Yongjia (307), Yao Zheng, the ancestor of Jin Yongjia, moved south. He used to be a long-time Wu riding a chariot and a general in Pingnan, and later became the prefect of Dong 'an, guarding Danyang. Yao Zheng's second son, Zheng Zhao, was General Longxiang of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He opened the state and led the army into Fujian, which was called "the ancestor of Fujian".

By the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains moved south to Fujian, and a large number of ancestors named Zheng settled in Fujian, and the center of Zheng began to form in the southeast coast.

In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Zheng Chenggong entered Taiwan Province.

population distribution

In the Song Dynasty, there were about 750,000 people surnamed Zheng, accounting for 0.97% of the national population, ranking 20th. Fujian is the largest province with Zheng surname, accounting for about 25% of the total population of Zheng surname in China. Distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Fujian, Henan and Zhejiang provinces, with Zheng accounting for 50% of the total population, followed by Jiangsu, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hubei. The distribution of Zheng surname in China is mainly concentrated in the southeast coast and two areas where Zheng surname gathers.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 1.2 million people surnamed Zheng, accounting for 1.2 1% of the national population, ranking 15. Zhejiang is the largest province with Zheng surname, accounting for about 25% of the total population of Zheng surname. The distribution in China is still concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places, among which Zheng accounts for about 50% of the total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places. The overall distribution pattern of Zheng surname in China has changed greatly, and the population mainly migrated to the southeast, and the Zheng surname gathering area with Zhejiang as the center began to form.

The area with the highest population distribution frequency and density per unit area is in eastern Zhejiang, with a population of more than 4.5 people per square kilometer. Followed by most parts of Zhejiang, northern Fujian, eastern Jiangxi, central Anhui, central Jiangsu, Shanghai and Jilin, with a population of 2.7-4.5 per square kilometer. The area with the highest density (more than 2.7 people/square kilometer) accounts for 5.9% of the national territory, and the population of Zheng is about 1, 8 1 000; The area of 0.9-2.7 people /km2 accounts for 4 1.6% of the national territory, and the population of Zheng is about 6.08 million. The area with less than 0.9 people per square kilometer accounts for 52.5% of the national territory, and the population of Zheng is about 6.5438+0.48 million. Zheng's surname is in Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan provinces, which generally accounts for more than 1.5% of the local population. The coverage area of this high proportion area accounts for about 2.8% of the total area of China. In eastern Guangdong, northern Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, southern Shandong, most of Sichuan, northern Guizhou, southwestern Shaanxi, central Inner Mongolia, northern Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia and northeastern provinces, Zheng's population is usually 0.5%- 1.5%, and its coverage area accounts for about 34.9% of the country's total area. In other vast areas, Zheng's population is less than 0.5%, and its coverage area accounts for 62.3% of the country's total area, of which the population below 0. 1% accounts for 25% of the country's land area.