Population distribution of Shao surname

During the pre-Qin period, Shao was active in Henan and Shandong. By the Qin and Han Dynasties, Shaw had spread to Jiangsu, Anhui and other places. By the time of Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Shao had crossed the Yangtze River into Hunan and Jiangxi, and arrived in Hebei in the north. During the Tang Dynasty, the Shao family of Zhongyuan immigrated to Fujian and Guangdong twice. Shao Yuqing first entered Taiwan.

During the Song Dynasty (960- 1279), there were more than 220,000 people surnamed Shao, accounting for 0.29% of the national population, ranking 68th. The province with the largest population of Shao surname is Jiangsu Province, accounting for about 24% of the total population of Shao surname in China and 1.3% of the total population of Jiangsu. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Hebei and Zhejiang, which account for about 52% of Shao's total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Hunan, Guangdong, Shanxi, Henan and Anhui, and the Shao surname in these five provinces is concentrated at around 35%. The distribution of Shao surname in the whole country has formed two Shao surname gathering areas, namely, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the southeast and Shanxi and Henan in the north.

During the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368- 1644), there were about 290,000 people surnamed Shao, accounting for 0.3 1% of the national population, ranking 73rd. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the net population growth rate was 20%, and that of Shao reached 28%, with a net increase of 60,000 people, which was faster than the national population growth. Zhejiang is the largest province with Shao surname, accounting for about 46% of the population of Shao surname. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang and Jiangsu (16%), accounting for about 62% of Shao's total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Anhui (6.5%), Guizhou (5. 1%) and Jiangxi (4. 1%), and the Shao surname in these three provinces is concentrated in 16%. Over the past 600 years in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the overall distribution pattern of Shao has changed greatly. The population mainly migrated from the north to the southeast, but some migrated to the southwest. Shao's center of gravity is in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

The contemporary population of Shao is 2.93 million, ranking 83rd in China, accounting for about 0.24% of the national population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of Shao has soared from 290,000 to more than 2.9 million, about 10 times. Since the Ming Dynasty, the national population has increased by 13 times. During the period of 1000 since the Song Dynasty, the population growth rate of Shao was ∧∧. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Shandong, Gansu and Hubei provinces, accounting for about 48% of Shao's total population. Followed by Anhui, Liaoning and Zhejiang, these three provinces accounted for 23%. Jiangsu is 15.2% of the total population of Shao, and it is the largest province in Shao, accounting for 0.6% of the total population of Jiangsu. Shaw has formed three settlements in China: Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui in the east, Liaoning in the northeast and Gansu in the northwest. During the more than 600 years from the Ming Dynasty to the present, the degree and direction of population movement in Shao were very different from those in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and they all moved back from the southeast to the Central Plains and the North. The area with the highest population density per unit area of Shao surname is in Hexi Corridor in East China, Northeast China and Northwest China, with the population of Shao surname reaching more than 0.35 per square kilometer, and the central area reaching more than 2. 1. The distribution density map of Shao surname shows that the area with the highest density (more than 0.35 people/square kilometer) only accounts for 29.9% of the national territory, and the population of Shao surname is about 2.274 million. The area with less than 0.35 people per square kilometer accounts for 70. 1% of the land area, and the population of Shao is about 656,000.

Shao surname is widely distributed, but it is not balanced. Shaw generally accounts for more than 0.6% of the local population in Hexi Corridor, southern Jiangsu, eastern Jiaodong, Liaodong Peninsula, northeast corner of Inner Mongolia and northwest corner of Heilongjiang, of which the frequency of occurrence in the central region is more than 1.2%, accounting for 5.6% of the total land area; In Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, northeastern Jiangxi, eastern Hubei, southeastern Henan, southeastern Shandong, southwestern Guangxi, southwestern Guangdong, Hainan, most of Gansu, Ningxia, eastern Qinghai and northeastern Inner Mongolia, the frequency of Shao's surname is 0.2%-0.6%, covering an area of about 23.5% of the country's total area; The distribution frequency of Shao surname in other areas is less than 0.2%, and its coverage area accounts for 70% of the total area of the country. 9%, of which 42% are distributed below 0. 1.