Who are the descendants of Jiang now?

Jiang is one of the oldest and most glorious surnames of the Chinese nation, and the descendants of Jiang can proudly claim to be the most authentic and authentic descendants of the Chinese people. Why do you say that? Because Shennong, one of the ancestors of Chinese culture, is the ancestor of Jiang's surname. According to legend, Yandi Shennong was born in (now Qishan County, Shaanxi Province) and took Jiang as his surname. This statement is recorded in Shiben, Yuanhe Shi, Shuowen Jiezi, Emperor Century, New Tang Book, Water Mirror Annotation and Historical Records. Even Jiang's surname is related to the Yellow Emperor. "Guoyu Yujin" in the pre-Qin Dynasty said: "In the past, the young married people were especially high, and they gave birth to Huangdi and Yan Di. The Yellow Emperor became a drowning man, and Emperor Yan became a Jiang Shui. " Since Yandi and Huangdi are brothers, which surname is the tallest ginger besides Ji? The reason why Zhao was listed as the first surname among hundreds of surnames began to spread in the Song Dynasty, because the emperor surnamed Zhao at that time did not mean that Zhao was older and more prominent than Jiang.

In the long process of evolution, both foreign surnames changed to Jiang surnames and Jiang surnames changed to his surnames. According to Tongzhi? According to "A Brief History of Clans", in the Tang Dynasty, the surname of Huan was changed to Jiang. Uncle Song? "The Soul of the Ancient Earth" records that in the Song Dynasty, the Qiang people changed their names to Jiang. In addition, the Chiang family and other ethnic groups in the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were all changed to Jiang's surname. "Historical Records Qi Taigong Family" contains: "Lv Shangzhe, Mao, master of the East China Sea. His ancestors tasted four mountains, and Zuo Yuping made great contributions to the soil and water. In the summer, he was named Jiang in Lu or Shen. In Xia and Shang Dynasties, Shen, Lu or Zhi covered their descendants, or, and later seedlings. Ben Jiang's surname, after his surname, is Lu Shang. "It's about Bo Yi, the grandson of Yan Emperor and the father of April. He was sealed in Lu (now Nanyang West, Henan Province) for assisting Dayu in water control, and was given the ancestral name to continue the Yan Emperor's incense. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Jiang Shang (Zi Ziya), a descendant of Emperor Yan, founded the State of Qi. In addition, Jiang's descendants also built vassal States such as Shen and Xu. Shen Guo originally lived between Shaanxi and Shanxi; Guo Xu is in Changdong, Henan Province today; Qiding is in Linzi North, northeast of Zibo. According to Zhou Benji, Zhou tribe is a branch of people, surnamed Jiang, also known as Jiang Rong. Originally in Guazhou (now west of Dunhuang, Gansu), it gradually moved eastward. In 638 BC, it moved to the south of Shanxi, belonging to the State of Jin.

By the Han Dynasty, the Jiang family living in present-day Shandong and Henan had developed into the Kanto family. In the Western Han Dynasty, he moved to Guanzhong as a big clan, then to Tianshui (now Gansu), and some people moved to Jiangsu, Sichuan and other places. In the Tang Dynasty, Jiuzhen (now Vietnam's Qinghua Province) came into being. During the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a man named Jiang who moved from the Central Plains to various parts of the south of the Yangtze River in order to escape the war. At present, the relatively complete genealogy of Jiang family is distributed in Tianjin, Qingxian County, Hebei Province, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, Yangzhong, Zhejiang Province, Fenghua, Xiangshan, Lanxi, Changshan, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, Changyi, Hunan Province, Jinxiang, Yantai, Ningxiang and Changsha, Hunan Province.

It should be pointed out that among the Jiang surnames distributed in China and even in the world, Shandong Province is the largest, accounting for about 13% of the population of Jiang surnames of Han nationality in China. The Jiang surname in Shandong is not only varied, but also older. Qi, Xu, Shen, Lu and Jiang are all successors of Shandong, especially Qi Jiang, who is the oldest and rarely migrates in history. In Xia and Shang Dynasties, there were ginger from Qufu Shennong, Zhangqiu Gao, Jiyang Tan, Feixian Xu and Juxian Qi. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there were Qijiang in Linzi, Yoshioka in Shouguang, Jiang Lai in Laiwu and Changle, Chen Jiang in Anqiu and Xiangjiang in Cangshan.

After vicissitudes of life, Jiang has developed into the 60th surname in China, and even a big family system in the world. According to Mr. Wang's article, among the 507 surnames in Hundred Surnames, 46 are surnamed Jiang. Among them, there are Jiang, Lu, Shen, Xu, Qi, Ji, Chai, Lai, Chong, Li, Pei, Lian, Xiang, Guo, Wen, Zuo, Luo and Shen Tu. Ancestor surnames, posthumous title, fiefs and fiefs are: Ding, Qiu, Gao, Cui, Lu, Zhang, Gu, Nie, Shang, Jiao, Gai, Cha (Hawthorn), Qing, Ke, Rao, Jing, Pu, Li and Xie. Other reasons are: strong, oblique, congratulations and so on. These surnames still exist around the old city of Qi and in Linzi area. The census statistics of Linzi District in 2003 are: Cui, Jiang, Lu, Ding, Lu, Zuo, Qiu, Ji, Qi, Jiao, Nie, He, Xiang, Chai, Shang, Li, Zhang, Yan, Feng, Rao, Xu, Gao, Xie, Gu and Luo.

This is the ancient name of Jiang, followed by Yan Di, Bo Yi, Jiang Wei (a famous warrior of Shu in the Three Kingdoms period) and Jiang Kui (a poet and musician in the Southern Song Dynasty). This is a "noble family" that has lasted for thousands of years and spread all over the world. People surnamed Jiang in the world, including me, are proud of Yan Di's inheritance emotionally and psychologically. However, feelings belong to feelings and history belongs to history. As mentioned earlier, there have been many times in history when people changed their surnames to Jiang. It can be seen that it is a bit far-fetched to classify all Jiang surnames in the world as descendants of Emperor Yan. And since ancient times, there have been different opinions about the origin of Jiang's surname. Shuowen explains the cloud of Jiang: "Shennongju, because she thought her surname was her daughter, sounded like a sheep." Yandi lives in. His surname is Jiang. This statement is, of course, the most common and accepted by Jiang's descendants. But modern scholar Zhang said: "Qiang is." Jiang's family came from Qiang people since ancient times, which is quite common among literati.

Qiang people, who are you? Qiang nationality has a long history, which can be traced back to the ancient Qiang nationality more than 3000 years ago. One of the Qiang people moved from Gansu and Qinghai to the upper reaches of Minjiang River during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and gradually merged with local residents to form today's Qiang people. Historically, due to different times and regions, the Qiang people were also called "Jiang", "Qiang", "Bianqiang", "Qiang Rong" and "Xiqiang". "The Biography of Western Qiang in the Later Han Dynasty" says: "The foundation of Western Qiang ... the difference of Jiang's family." In fact, "Jiang" and "Qiang" are originally a word, so they are called "Jiang" because of their surnames and "Qiang" because of their surnames. In other words, the surname Jiang may be a nomadic people from the north or northwest at the earliest, an immigrant and an outsider. After Yan Emperor Shennong taught people to slash and burn, it gradually evolved into a farming nation, thus creating Chinese farming culture.