Where does the surname Liu in southern Fujian come from?

In the early days, the Liu family mainly developed and multiplied in the north.

More than 300 BC, the surname Liu began to spread to Henan and Jiangsu. During the Warring States Period, there was a Jin official named Hui. His descendants stayed in the Qin State and were called the Liu family. In the late Warring States period, the Qin State destroyed the Wei State, and the Liu family followed the Qin army into Daliang, the capital of the Wei State, which is now Kaifeng, Henan. His tenth generation grandson served in the State of Wei. After the demise of Wei, he moved to Daliang. His son Liu Qing moved to present-day Jiangsu and other places. [9]

The Han Dynasty was the heyday and development period of the Liu surname. After the Han Emperor Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty, he enfeoffed the same surname to various places. Later, the tribes multiplied, so Pengcheng, Weishi, Linhuai, Nanyang, There are Liu families in Guangping, Danyang and other places. In the early Western Han Dynasty, more than 30 princes were granted the title of king, and more than 400 people were granted the title of marquis. As a result of the Han royal family ennobling princes with the same surname, nobles surnamed Liu spread all over the country. They each occupied their own territory and soon became powerful families in various places. In short, the Liu surname is mainly from the royal family. After more than 400 years of reproduction and development in the Han Dynasty, the population increased rapidly and became the most common surname in the world at that time. However, the population surnamed Liu is still mainly distributed in the Yellow River Basin, mainly in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui and Taiyuan, Shanxi. In addition, there are also prominent families surnamed Liu in Jingxiang area of ??Hubei Province, Changsha area of ??Hunan Province, and Jiujiang area of ??Jiangxi Province.

At the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the Liu family in the Central Plains continued to migrate to all directions to avoid the "Dong Zhuo Rebellion", mainly to the southeast to defect to Sun Wu and to the southwest to enter Sichuan to defect to the Shu Han.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, central and northern China once again fell into war. Like other surnames in the Central Plains, Liu surnames in the Central Plains migrated to the south, southeast and southwest to avoid the war, and some moved to Japan and the Korean Peninsula. From the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, immigration from the Central Plains to the south and southeast has never stopped. The immigrants are getting larger and larger, and the areas are getting farther and farther.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the surname Liu had spread all over the country, and "Liu everywhere" had taken shape. The Liu family began to move to Guangdong and Guangxi. [10] At the end of the Tang Dynasty, a large number of people from the Central Plains immigrated to Fujian, including people with the Liu surname. [8] During the Jiading period of Ningzong in the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Kaiqi, the seventh son of Liu Long, the Xuanfu envoy from Henan, served as an official in Chaozhou, Guangdong. His descendants then lived in Xingyi, where the population flourished and the tribes became more numerous. Later, they dispersed to many places from Xingning. "Guangyun" in the Northern Song Dynasty listed 25 Liu's counties.

From the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, people from the Liu family in Fujian and Guangdong successively immigrated to Taiwan, and later many people went to make a living overseas. [11]