The origin of Jia Ziran

Jia surname is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. Its two origins are taking the country as the surname and the city as the surname, both of which come from the ancient "Jia" land. This beautiful land is now Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province.

According to the "New Tang Book Prime Minister Genealogy", "Jia surname Ji. Tang Shuyu was less than, King Kang named him Jia Bo, and there was Jia Xiang in Linfen, Hedong, that is, his land was destroyed by Jin and his country was his. Fox Que, the son of the Duke of Jin, shot Gu as the governor of Jin, living in Jia, surnamed Ji, also known as Jia Ji. "

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, he bid farewell to the youngest son of the founding monarch of the State of Jin, and established Jia of posthumous title Jia Bo as a vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty. Because he is the son of, Jia is her surname. In 678 BC, Duke Wu of the State of Jin seized the land of the State of Jin, which was renamed the State of Jin in the Tang Dynasty, and Jia's territory was annexed. After Jia's subjugation, descendants took the country as their surname according to the custom at that time, that is, Jia, and Jia's family appeared from then on.

The other is Jia who takes the city as his surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a doctor named Hu Yan in the State of Jin. He was a great man. He is Jin Wengong Zhong Er's uncle. Zhong Er died on 19 when he was a child, Hu Yanzhong. He always followed him 19 years, giving advice to Zhong Er. After Zhong Er acceded to the throne as Jin Jun, Hu Yan was honored as a doctor. Later, Hu Yan's son Shegu was the surname of Jin State, and Duke Xiang of Jin (his son) gave him the land of the former Jia State as a fief, which was called Jia Ji. His descendants took the feudal surname as their surname.

During the pre-Qin period, the Jia family developed in Shanxi, and some people moved to Henan and Shandong. Later, the Jia family in Henan flourished with a prosperous population, and many tribes were derived. Jia surname in Han Dynasty has moved to Shaanxi and Gansu. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, Jia's residents had spread to many places in the south of the Yangtze River. Around the Qing Dynasty, Jia had emigrated overseas. Nowadays, there are overseas Chinese surnamed Jia in Singapore and other countries.

Jia ranked 45th in the population ranking of 100 surnames in China announced today.