The distribution of Tan surname

During the pre-Qin period, Tan lived in Shandong and Henan. After Qin, Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Tan's surname has spread to various places. In the Tang Dynasty, Tan was a famous surname in Hunan, whose subject moved from north to south. During the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, after several major migrations and ethnic integration, the southern Tan surname was constantly enriched and developed, forming a typical southern surname. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the migration from Shandong to the northeast and the acceleration of the sinicization of Manchu Eight Banners in the Qing Dynasty formed the Tan surname group in Jiaodong and Liaodong Peninsula. Finally, it created the situation of Tan surname distribution in contemporary China.

In the Song Dynasty, there were about 230,000 people surnamed Tan, accounting for 0.3% of the national population, ranking 67th. The province with the largest population of Tan surname is Hunan (excluding the surrounding areas), accounting for about 59% of the population of Tan surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hunan and Guangdong, accounting for about 75% of the total population of Tan. Secondly, it is distributed in Jiangxi, Sichuan, Shandong, Hebei and Hubei, and the Tan surname in these five provinces is concentrated by 22%. China has formed a large gathering area of Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Tan.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were about 260,000 people surnamed Tan, accounting for 0.28% of the national population, ranking 78th. Over the past 600 years, the net population growth rate of our country has been 20%, and the population growth rate of Tan is lower than that of the whole country. During the Ming Dynasty, Hunan was still the largest province with Tan surname, accounting for about 25% of the total population of Tan surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan and Jiangxi. Tan surnames in these four provinces account for about 75% of the total population of Tan surnames, followed by Hubei and Jiangsu, where Tan surnames are concentrated in 14%. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the overall distribution pattern of Tan surname changed little, and the population mainly migrated to the southeast and west. Hunan is still the center of the country, forming a large gathering area of Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Jiangxi and Tan.

Contemporary distribution and atlas

With a population of 3.7 million, Tan is the 65th most popular surname in China, accounting for about 0.3% of the national population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of Tan has increased from 260,000 to nearly 3.7 million, an increase of more than 14, and the population growth rate of Tan is higher than that of the whole country. During the period of 1000 since the Song Dynasty, the population growth rate of Tan showed an upward trend. The distribution of Tan surname in China is mainly concentrated in Hunan, Guangdong and Sichuan provinces, accounting for about 49% of the total population of Tan surname in China, followed by Chongqing, Guangxi, Hubei, Shandong, Liaoning and Anhui, with Tan surname in six provinces and cities accounting for 29%. Hunan is the largest province with Tan surname, accounting for about 22% of the total population of Tan surname in China. Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, and Hubei have re-formed two major Tan-surnamed areas. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of population migration in Tan are quite different from those in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, especially the migration direction from the east to Central China, North China and Sichuan has always been greater than that from the north to the southeast. At the same time, the migration to the northeast has become an important flow direction. The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of Tan surname in the crowd shows that Tan surname is one of the more common surnames in central, western and southern regions. In Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing, most of Guizhou, eastern Sichuan, eastern Yunnan, Hubei, most of Jiangxi, northeast corner of Inner Mongolia and northwest corner of Heipeng River, the proportion of Tan surname is above 0.54%, and the central region is as high as 65,438 0.8%. The above areas account for about 14.2% of the country's total area, and about 59% of Tan's population lives. In most areas of Yunchuan, western Guizhou, Hainan, Fujian, northeastern Jiangxi, northern Hubei, southern Anhui, southern Henan, southern Shaanxi and Gansu, Ningxia, southeastern Qinghai, eastern Shandong, most of Liaoning, western Jilin, Heilongjiang and eastern Inner Mongolia, the proportion of Tan's surname is between 0. 18%-0.54%, and the coverage area is about 0.