The origin and origin of Cai surname

The origin and origin of Cai surname are as follows:

1, from Ji surname: a descendant of Wang Jichang, taking the country as his surname. After the King of Wu destroyed the business, his fifth brother was awarded a degree in Cai, which was called the capital of Cai Shu in history. Now, the son of Cai Shudu was renamed Cai, and the new Cai State is in Shangcai County, Henan Province. After Chu destroyed Cai, Chinese people took the country as their surname and scattered around.

2. Subordinate surname: Subordinate to the Huangdi branch of the fief, which belongs to the name of the fief. Ai surname is a direct descendant of the Yellow Emperor. During the Yao, Shun and Xia dynasties, Ai's clans, such as Yan, Kan, Yin, Cai and Lu, were distributed in the east and west Yellow River basins in Henan. Cai is a branch of Wa nationality, and holds a high sacrificial position in the tribe. Cai and Ji were commonly used in ancient times, so Cai came from Ji.

3. Originated from ethnic minorities: The incident that Cai's surname flowed into foreign blood mainly occurred after the Song Dynasty. Later, the Wu surname of the Jurchen nationality in the State of Jin was all changed to the Chinese surname Cai, and the Manchu Eight Banners, Wuling Ashi and Samara in the Qing Dynasty were all changed to the Chinese surname Cai. After living together with the Han nationality for a long time, these foreigners gradually assimilated into the Cai surname of the Han nationality in the north and flourished in the northeast. A large part of Cai's surname among the ethnic minorities in Guizhou and Guangxi was assimilated into the southern Han nationality, mainly in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Migration and communication of Cai surname;

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Cai traveled all over Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hubei, Anhui, Shandong, Hunan and Guizhou. During the Warring States Period, the Chua clan set out from Caidian, Hubei Province, entered Changde, Hunan Province, and entered Guizhou along Yuanjiang River, mixing with local aborigines and becoming the ancestors of Chua clans such as Miao, Tu, Yao and Buyi.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Cai's family mainly distributed in the Central Plains, and formed Jiyang Cai's family in eastern Henan and western Shandong. This is the most glorious period in Chua's history, with many celebrities and far-reaching influence. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a war in the north, and a large number of people in the Central Plains moved south. Cai began to enter Jiangsu and Zhejiang in a big way. During the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains immigrated to Fujian twice on a large scale, and Cai was one of the main surnames, which laid the foundation for Cai to become a famous surname in the south.

Cai Yongyuan is the ancestor of the Cai family who entered Fujian. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, a war broke out in the Central Plains. Henan people of Chua's family entered Fujian with Wang Chao and Wang. They first lived in Ninghua County, Fujian Province, and then moved to Meizhou, Guangdong Province. By the Song Dynasty, Chua's family had spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, and Chua's main force had been formed in Fujian. Cai entered Taiwan Province Province in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Since then, a large number of people surnamed Cai have moved from Fujian and Guangdong to Taiwan Province Province, and some have moved to Southeast Asia and Europe and America.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Cai surname.