My surname is Yao, and I come from Wuhu, Anhui. I wonder where my ancestors may have come from.

From its birth to the Spring and Autumn Period, Yao's surname mainly developed in Henan. Before the Jin Dynasty, it had developed to Shanxi, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places. In 384 AD, Yao established the post-Qin regime, and with the participation of Yao in Longxi, Gansu, Yao gradually became stronger. After the demise of the post-Qin regime, according to the Book of Jin, Emperor Wu of Song moved the Yao surname "Yuzong" to the south of the Yangtze River, so many Yao surnames in the south of the Yangtze River are descendants of this Yao surname.

The population of contemporary Yao surname has reached more than 465,438+10,000, which is the 62nd surname in China, accounting for about 0.33% of the national population. From the Song Dynasty to the present, the population growth rate of Yao nationality showed a ∧-shaped trend during 1000 years. At present, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Anhui, Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces, accounting for about 25% of the total Yao population, followed by Zhejiang, Henan, Sichuan, Hebei, Hubei and Hunan provinces, which account for 33% of the Yao population. Anhui is the largest province with Yao surname, accounting for 8.6% of the total population.

In the pre-Qin period, Yao's main active areas were Henan and Shandong. During the Qin, Han and Jin dynasties, Yao's surname had spread all over the north and Jiangnan provinces. The rise of Yao surname in the northwest Qiang nationality and its entry into the Central Plains greatly expanded the number of Yao surnames. At the same time, the surname Yao in Taoshui, Gansu, went south to Sichuan and Southwest China. In the Tang Dynasty, Yao moved to the southeast twice and began to enter Fujian and Guangdong. Yao entered Taiwan Province Province in the early Ming Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, there were about 320,000 people surnamed Yao, accounting for 0.4 1% of the national population, ranking 56th. The province with the largest Yao surname is Hebei, accounting for about 25% of the total population of Yao surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hebei, Zhejiang, Shaanxi and Jiangsu. These four provinces account for about 60% of the Yao population, followed by Sichuan, Shanxi, Guangxi, Anhui, Henan and Jiangxi. At that time, Hebei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shaanxi were the three major gathering places of Yao's surname.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 550,000 Yao surnames, accounting for 0.59% of the national population, and it was the 33rd surname in the Ming Dynasty. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang and Jiangsu, with Yao accounting for about 45% of the total population, followed by Guangdong, Jiangxi, Anhui and Shanxi provinces. Zhejiang is the largest province with Yao surname, accounting for about 32% of the total population of Yao surname. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the Yao population mainly migrated to the southeast. The population center of Yao surname drifts from north to southeast, and Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Anhui are densely populated areas of Yao surname.

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