What is the origin and history of Ren Shi?

1, from the surname Ji, is a descendant of Yuyang, the youngest son of the Yellow Emperor, and takes the country name as his surname. According to the records in Tang Shu Prime Minister's Genealogy Table and Zuo Zhuan Zheng Yi, it is one of the 12 basic surnames granted by the Yellow Emperor five thousand years ago, and it is a very old surname with a glorious tradition.

According to "Compilation of Surnames", "There are 25 descendants of the Yellow Emperor, 12 of whom take Germany as their surname, and one is named. From the sixth generation to the West, they were appointed as Xue, Wei and Qin." According to textual research, the ancestor of Ren surnamed Yu (Yu) Yang, the youngest son of the Yellow Emperor, was sealed in Renguo, and later generations took the country as their surname.

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During the pre-Qin period, Ren mainly lived in Chongqing, Shandong, Henan, Hubei and other places. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Ren Shi had spread to Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. During the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, the surname Ren was more widely distributed, but the main body was still in the North and the Central Plains. By the Song Dynasty, this surname had emigrated to Fujian. In the early Qing Dynasty, he was appointed to Taiwan Province Province.

During the Song Dynasty, there were about 350,000 people surnamed Ren, accounting for 0.46% of the national population, ranking 47th. The largest province with the surname of Ren is Sichuan, accounting for about 3 1% of the total population of Ren.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ren surname